How does history judge Hawke's child poverty pledge?

By Peter Martin
Updated October 17 2017 - 7:49am, first published October 16 2017 - 4:53pm

Thirty years on, prime minister Bob Hawke's infamous pledge that no Australian child would live in poverty is shaping up to be an achievement rather than an embarrassment, a new analysis shows.

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