The Labor luminary, who brought in universal healthcare and the single mother's pension under the Whitlam government, has died aged 90.
An Emergency Warning has been issued for Mawsons Road and Holt Road, near Beerwah, in Queensland. For the latest warnings, search onFormer ALP leader and governor-general Bill Hayden has been remembered as the architect of Medicare, a modernising treasurer, and re-shaper of post-war Labor.Described as the greatest man never to become prime minister, Mr Hayden ceded Labor leadership to Bob Hawke in 1983.
But Mr Hayden was also a humble man who gave a lifetime of service to Australia, with "an enduring interest in the big ideas," Mr Albanese said. "In a time of forceful personalities, Bill Hayden was notable for his humility. Yet there was nothing modest about his ambition for Labor or Australia.Former Australian prime minister Paul Keating said Mr Hayden was "a great servant of Australia".
"Political circumstances denied Bill Hayden the prime ministership but the Hawke government in which he served as foreign minister was set up and shaped by him as Leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party.
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