Larrikins
It’s said the former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke could down a yard of ale, or 2½ pints in just on 11 seconds. While the late Robert James Lee Hawke maintained he was on the wagon all that time he was in The Lodge, the idea that the PM enjoyed the occasional long cold frothy became part of a carefully crafted political image. Film of Hawke famously celebrating into the wee small hours as…








