Robert Duncan Hogg AO

Order of Australia

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 is an Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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 (ALP) identity, and former ALP National Secretary.

Career

• 1976-78: Secretary of the Victorian Branch of the ALP.
• 1983-86: Senior adviser to then Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke
  Bob Hawke
  Robert James Lee "Bob" Hawke AC GCL was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from March 1983 to December 1991 and therefore longest serving Australian Labor Party Prime Minister....
  
  
• 1986-87: Consultant to the Premier of Victoria
• 1988-93: Australian Labor Party National Secretary
• 1993-98: Deputy Chairman of the Singleton Group
• 1998- : Independent consultant - Issues Management; Director of Australian Health International; Director of Snowy Hydro Corporation
  Snowy Hydro Limited
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  ; columnist Australian Financial Review.

As a columnist, Bob Hogg has sometimes expressed views at variance with the ALP, such as during the 1999 GST

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 debate, in which he criticised those opposing the tax (including independent Brian Harradine

Brian Harradine

Richard William Brian Harradine , Australian politician, was an independent member of the Australian Senate from 1975 to 2005, representing the state of Tasmania. He was the longest-serving independent federal politician in Australian history, and a Father of the Senate.He was born in Quorn, South...

) on the grounds that such a tax would ensure funding for policies traditionally advocated for by Labor, such as state schools and hospitals.

Biography

He was married to Caroline Hogg

Caroline Hogg

Caroline Hogg is a former Australian politician for the Australian Labor Party. She was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1982 to 1996 and a minister in the governments of John Cain and Joan Kirner....

 (née Kluht) from 1967 to 1996, with whom he had two children. For 17 years Caroline Hogg held a seat in the Victorian Legislative Council

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, held various state ministries and was State Deputy Leader of the Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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.

He is currently the partner of Maxine McKew

Maxine McKew

Maxine Margaret McKew , is a former Australian politician and journalist; she was the Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government in the Rudd Ministry and the First Gillard Ministry. Between 2007 and 2010, she was the member of the House of...

, a leading Australian journalist and former Labor member for the Division of Bennelong

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. They live in the Sydney

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 suburb of Epping, New South Wales

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.

Honours

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1995.

He received a Centenary Medal

Centenary Medal

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for "significant contribution to Australian politics" in 2001.