Bob Hawke Children: Meet Stephen Hawke, Susan Pieters-Hawke, Robert Hawke Jr., And Rosslyn Dillon

Robert James Lee ‘Bob’ Hawke was an Australian politician who served as the country’s 23rd Prime Minister and the head of the Australian Labor Party from 1983 to 1991.

Following his graduation from the University of Western Australia with a degree in Arts and Law, he was awarded the Rhodes scholarship, which allowed him to study for a doctorate at the University of Oxford and then at the Australian National University.

However, he dropped out of school shortly after to join the Australian Council of Trade Unions.

Hawke married Hazel Masterson in 1956 at Perth Trinity Church. They had three children: Susan (born 1957), Stephen (born 1959), and Roslyn (born 1960). Their fourth child, Robert Jr, died in early infancy in 1963. Hawke was named Victorian Father of the Year in 1971

The couple divorced in 1995 after he left her for the writer Blanche d’Alpuget, and the two lived together in Northbridge

Hawke was a prolific drinker in his early years, setting a world record for drinking during his time as a student.

Following the death of his and Hazel’s young son in 1963, Hawke succumbed to alcohol poisoning.