Second blow for Hawke
NZPA Sydney The Hawke Government received its second body blow in two days with the resignation from Parliament of the Australian Labour Party’s president, Mr Mick Young. After Labour’s mauling in the Adelaide by-elec-tion at the week-end, commentators said the Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, was under pressure to abandon his agenda for economic reform. The resignation of the
Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs — a close friend and confidant of the Prime Minister — has added to his woes. . Mr Young, aged 51, is the third Cabinet Minister to have resigned since the Hawke Government’s third election victory last July. The Special Minister of State, Susan Ryan, and the Minister for Tourism and Sport, John Brown, announced their departures' in December
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