A royal send-off, Australian style: Blanche d’Alpuget farewelled at Bondi
“Blanche was proof the sharpest of minds, together with an innate sense of joy and fun, could all be housed within the same kind person,” Arts Minister Tony Burke said of the writer and widow of Bob Hawke.
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