PHOTO: Bob Hawke, property owner Rocky Callisto and Blanche d’Alpuget in front of the home in 2011. Supplied: Rocky Callisto

The Federal Government will spend $750,000 to purchase and renovate the South Australian cottage where former prime minister Bob Hawke was born and grew up.

Key points:

  • The property known as Hawke House is the birthplace of the former prime minister
  • The Federal Government will spend $750,000 to purchase and renovate the property
  • Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the home is a “significant part” of Australia’s democratic history

Mr Hawke, who died earlier this year, was born at the home in Bordertown in South Australia’s south-east in 1929.

The stone cottage on Farquhar Street was built in 1885 as a bank office and manager’s residence before it was bought by the Congregational church.

Mr Hawke’s father was Congregational minister in Bordertown from 1928 until 1935, and the property later became known as Hawke House.

In more recent times, the heritage-listed building was leased out to commercial tenants and was put on the market in 2016.

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