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‘Soon we’d be parted forever’: Blanche d’Alpuget’s last moments with Bob Hawke

On the day the former prime minister died, not even his wife believed the end was near.

  • Derek Rielly

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“It annoys me that people often underrate her,” says Sue Kirby (left) of Blanche. d’Alpuget. “She’s still ‘the other woman’, who ‘stole’ Bob.”

‘She got all the blame’: The public view of Blanche d’Alpuget that makes her schoolfriend ‘so angry’

Dr Sue Kirby and author Blanche d’Alpuget met as eight-year-olds. It was partly because of Sue’s father that Blanche and former PM Bob Hawke got together.

  • Fenella Souter
Blanche d’Alpuget is selling the “city retreat” she bought with Bob Hawke in 2015.

Why I turned to crime: Blanche d’Alpuget, six years after losing Bob Hawke

What is one of the finest biographers in the country doing in crime fiction? Let’s ask her.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Blanche D’Alpuget is selling the ‘city retreat’ she bought with Bob Hawke in 2015.

Blanche d’Alpuget swaps one CBD luxury spread for another next door

Blanche D’Alpuget, the widow of former prime minister Bob Hawke, is trading in her Hyde Park “city retreat” for another apartment in the tower next door.

  • Lucy Macken
Blanche d’Alpuget has been diagnosed with cancer.

Blanche D'Alpuget diagnosed with breast cancer

The 76-year-old found a lump on her breast about six weeks ago and is now undergoing chemotherapy to fight the disease.

  • Laura Chung
Red Symons in his new digs of this year, a property he bought 30 years ago as an investment.

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Bob and Blanche on their wedding day in 1995.

'He wanted to go ... I came to accept it': Blanche d'Alpuget on life after Bob

Bob Hawke and second wife Blanche d’Alpuget's marriage lasted almost a quarter of a century. Now, six months after the former PM’s passing, the author is ready to write her next chapter.

  • Amanda Hooton
Bob Hawke attending parliament in 2016 for the launch of a book about Labor leader Anthony Albanese.

Bob Hawke's daughter to sue Blanche d'Alpuget over his will

Roslyn Dillon has engaged a law firm to contest her father's will, which reportedly gives the vast bulk of his assets to his second wife.

  • Nick Bonyhady
Blanche D'Alpuget has remembered the fierce love she shared with her husband.

'No fear of death': D'Alpuget breaks silence on Hawke's final days

Blanche D'Alpuget has revealed her late husband Bob Hawke did not get to vote before he died.

  • Nick Bonyhady
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten paid tribute to Bob Hawke with a beer at the former PM's favourite pub.

Labor heads into polling day hoping to deliver a 'fifth win' for beloved Hawke

The final full day of the campaign was inevitably overshadowed by the death of Labor's longest-serving prime minister.

  • Michael Koziol

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