Troy Hawke Quotes

economic growth. These reforms were not easy. They required careful planning, extensive consultation and ongoing communication with voters. Hawke believed in the Fabian

much more familiar imperial system (a troy pound, for instance, contains twelve ounces rather than sixteen), the troy system itself is of uncertain origin, but its name is believed to derive from the French market town of Troyes, south-east of Paris, where the system was presumably first used.

There’s a scene in the film Reality Bites, which with all due respect to The Big Chill and The Best Years of Our Lives is the quintessential example of what results when Hollywood distills the perceived ideals of a generation into a cohesive narrative product, when Ethan Hawke’s über-slacker protagonist Troy Dyer mocks mineral water.

On 8 June, Hawke told the conference that the party needed to remind itself of 'its fundamental and historic rule' as 'the party of progress and reform'. He urged Labor to remain contemporary and relevant. He said 'the meaning of reform' was 'not about soft options' and 'not a matter of invoking some dogmatic formula'.