Former Prime Minister John Howard has praised the memory of Bob Hawke, who died yesterday, remembering him as “undoubtedly a very fine prime minister,".
Howard had only nice words for the fellow former Prime Minister, stating "He was the best prime minister of the labour movement in Australia's history. I would rank him at the top of the list as far as Labor prime ministers were concerned.
"He brought to the office of prime minister and also to the position of leader of the Labor Party a great deal of authority, and in politics, the greatest commodity a leader can have is authority." Howard said.