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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

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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.

Good Weekend: top features of 2019

Every year, Good Weekend publishes the definitive stories on the people, places and issues that matter to Australians. Here, we revisit some of our reader favourites from 2019.

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
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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
FAIRFAX ARCHIVE RICH AND RARE / POLITICS Cover of SMH Good Weekend featuring Bob Hawke and Blanche DAlpuget **PLEASE NOTE, NOT TO BE USED BEFORE PUBLICATION OF THE RICH AND RARE BOOK - 2006**

From the Archives, 1998: The bliss of being Bob and Blanche... and how it all began

Bob Hawke and Blanche d'Alpuge declared their love to the world in a flurry of white towelling robes and married in a storm of media attention. They spoke to Good Weekend in 1998 about sex, scandal, and what they did for love.

  • Janet Hawley
The memorable photo of couple Blanche d'Alpuget and Bob Hawke taken by Illawarra Mercury photographer Orlando Chiodo

'No, I'm right': Hawke wanted to wear his swimmers in revealing photo

Back in 1994, every media outlet wanted to capture the first photo of Bob Hawke with his new love Blanche d'Alpuget. Finally, one man got it - with Hawke in his swimmers.

  • Glen Humphries
"I accepted the publisher’s challenge and suddenly found myself mad with excitement from the pleasure of writing again."

Events stranger than fiction steered my life in a curious direction

Grief can be a great medicine and is the inspiration for much writing.

  • Blanche d'Alpuget

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