Blanche d’Alpuget, writer and widow of Bob Hawke, dies aged 82

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has led tributes for award-winning author and journalist Blanche d’Alpuget who died from complications related to influenza in Sydney overnight.

D’Alpuget is the widow of former prime minister Bob Hawke.

In a statement, her family have remembered her as someone who lived “entirely on her own terms”.

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