Vintage duo lock horns to put on a show for the ages

By Deborah Snow
Updated November 21 2012 - 8:13am, first published 7:25am
Sparring partners ... former prime ministers Bob Hawke and John Howard at the Lifeline fund-raiser agree to disagree on some issues and simply agree on others.
Sparring partners ... former prime ministers Bob Hawke and John Howard at the Lifeline fund-raiser agree to disagree on some issues and simply agree on others.

THE atmosphere wasn't quite one of affection - more like a comfortable truce - when two old sparring partners, John Howard and Bob Hawke, made a rare appearance on stage together at a Sydney fund-raiser.

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