Blanche d'Alpuget, Bob Hawke's widow and biographer, dies at 82

Blanche d'Alpuget — novelist, biographer and widow of former prime minister Bob Hawke — has died at 82. Her family gave the ABC her final words: "Our highest calling and greatest achievement is love." Her prize-winning Hawke biography led to their 2006 marriage. She is survived by son Louis Pratt and three Hawke step-children.