AdvertisementPoliticsFederalIndigenous Opinion The ghost of Bob Hawke supports Pauline Hanson? Prime minister Bob Hawke accepts the Barunga Statement from Galarrwuy Yunupingu in 1988, and promises a treaty. Related Article Vale A gathering of tribes - how Bob Hawke would have loved it It happened that I was around that campfire at Barunga in 1988 when Hawke promised to work towards a treaty. Former prime ministers Bob Hawke, Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser, Paul Keating and Kevin Rudd after Rudd’s apology to Indigenous Australia, specifically the stolen generations. On behalf of Bob Hawke, who has been gone these seven years, may I offer a response?