Bob Hawke and Blanche d'Alpuget on the putting green atop their Northbridge home in 2013. The Labor Party legend bought the Northbridge property in 1991 for $1.23 million, just six months before he lost the party leadership to Paul Keating. TIM BAUER Bob Hawke and Blanche d’Alpuget, pictured at home in 2013, were married in 1996. JAMES MORGAN Bob Hawke in 2004 with his dog Chippy at his Northbridge home. But those retirement plans were brought forward six months later when Hawke lost the Labor leadership to Keating in a Labor Party caucus ballot in December 1991.

Source: Stuff March 13, 2019 22:41 UTC