The GuardianFormer Australian prime minister Bob Hawke’s youngest daughter says she was raped by a confidant of her father in the 1980s, but was urged not to report the assaults to protect the leadership ambitions of Hawke, who died in May. “I thought to myself I could not make any bigger sacrifice to [my father’s] political career if I had tried,” she wrote. Hawke first mounted a leadership challenge in July 1982, but was unsuccessful. Bill Hayden resigned as Labor leader in February 1983, with Hawke emerging as the successor. Hawke won the March 1983 election and became one of the Labor Party’s most successful prime ministers.
