Australian leaders make last poll pitch, mourn former PM Hawke
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Australia’s political leaders on Thursday made their last big pitch to voters ahead of a May 18 election, with the death of Bob Hawke, the opposition Labor party’s longest-serving prime minister likely to loom over the political scene in coming days.