The pain at the heart of Bob Hawke's contested legacy | npomalley
Beneath a banner in a Sydney pub reading “Hawke’s Legend, the legacy lives on”, members of the former prime minister’s family sought to mark what would have been his 90th birthday in the shadow of allegations that
The occasion was to promote Hawke’s Brewing Co, a company Mr Hawke had lent his name to in 2017 in return for its support for Landcare Australia, but the handful of reporters in attendance were focused on claims of rape and an estate facing a legal challenge.In front of a rank of cameras Mr Hawke’s granddaughter, Sophie Taylor-Price, poured a ceremonial schooner of Hawke’s Legend IPA and then declined to comment on the allegations, first raised in a story published by.
Under the terms of that estate Mr Hawke’s three surviving children and Louis Pratt, the son of Blanche d’Alpuget, Bob Hawke’s second wife, were each to receive a payout of about $750,000, while Ms d’Alpuget received the rest, including the $14.5 million proceeds of the sale of the couple’s home.
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