Former governor-general Bill Hayden has died aged 90.
Hayden served as treasurer in the Whitlam government and as foreign minister under Bob Hawke, to whom he had ceded leadership of the ALP in 1983, before being appointed for a seven-year term as governor-general in 1989.Brought up in a working-class household in Brisbane, Hayden joined the police force in 1953 and worked a second job driving a milk delivery truck.
“My first thoughts are with Dallas, his beloved wife of 63 years, their children and all those who knew and loved him best,” Albanese said. “As a reforming Minister for Social Security, Bill introduced Medibank, Australia’s first plan for universal healthcare. As a former police officer who understood that poverty too often trapped women in violent relationships, Bill introduced Australia’s first single mother’s pension.
“When the story of that generation is told, history should record that without Bill Hayden championing and building Medibank, there could have been no Medicare.
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