In the second-last week of the 1983 election campaign, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser ramped up the fear campaign against a potential Labor government.
In a famous statement, Fraser said that if a Labor government was elected, “people would be better off keeping their money under the bed”.
Hawke’s dismissive response was: “But you can’t put your money under the bed… that’s where the commies are.”
- Listen to Hawke’s riposte (1m)
