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Morning Mail: High-end home values fall; costs of sea level rise revealed; and is AI coming for humans?

Expensive homes worst hit in property price downturn; report details staggering impacts of sea level rise; tech insiders raise alarm over AI advances

The Guardian - AU · Sep 9

True to her own life, Blanche d’Alpuget leaves a rule to live by: ‘Love one another’

D’Alpuget was a successful author who brought her own star power to her relationship with her ‘great love’, Bob Hawke

The Guardian - AU · Sep 9

Blanche d'Alpuget leaves a lasting imprint on Australian literature – and politics

Writer Blanche d'Alpuget has died aged 82, leaving a lasting imprint on Australian literature, and having influenced the course of political history with her pathbreaking 1982 book on the then prime ministerial aspirant, Bob Hawke.

The Conversation · Sep 9

Bob Hawke’s widow: He would have been all in for the Voice

Bob Hawke's widow, Blanche d'Alpuget, has told an Indigenous festival that one of his greatest regrets was not delivering a treaty.

The New Daily · Jun 10, 2023

Stripped bare and born afresh: how biographies play a role in the building and rebuilding of political careers

After decades covering federal politics in Canberra, my embarrassment at not knowing Warren Denning’s Caucus Crisis: The Rise and Fall of the Scullin Government (1937) was partly assuaged when an older colleague revealed the same.

The Conversation · Apr 6, 2023