 The main recommendations of the report, which were directed at improving the professional quality of the Australian aid program, were accepted by the Government.During the next few years, in various speeches Hayden set out the foreign aid priorities of the government.After winning the 1987 election, Hawke offered Hayden the post of Governor-General as a consolation for replacing him earlier as Labor Leader in 1983 and thus denying him the chance to become Prime Minister.