1.A CHILDREN’S doctor has been killed while cycling in Rose Bay.
Dr Henri Sueke was tragically killed in a collision with a truck in Rose Bay yesterday.
The 36-year-old father of four was reportedly cycling along New South Head Road about 7.45am on Thursday when he was involved in a crash with a truck and became trapped under the wheel.
Media have reported Dr Sueke hit a parked car before falling under the truck, though police are yet to confirm the details.
Passing motorists tried to perform CPR on Dr Sueke, a paediatric opthamologist at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, but sadly he could not be saved.
Dr Sueke and his Australian-born wife, Dani, had moved to Australia this year from Manchester.
In other news you may have missed…
2.TALK about a short maternity leave! Kate, 33 who gave birth to Princess Charlotte on May 2 is set to attend Queen Elizabeth’s birthday parade on June 13, at the request of the 89-year-old monarch.
It will be the first public appearance for Kate, but it is believed she will leave the royal rascals at home with nana Carole.
The Weekly’s sister site Woman’s Day reports the Queen thinks “a month is more than enough time for Kate to take off before she should return to performing her royal duties.”
3.CELEBRITY cook Pete Evans has released a new, less toxic version of his Paleo cookbook for children, but it still includes a shot of ‘Tummy Brew’ in a baby bottle, which may be a breach World Health Organisation guidelines.
A first edition of Pete’s book, called Bubba Yum Yum, was pulled after The Weekly’s investigation revealed it included a recipe for a potentially deadly bone broth for babies.
The recipe had toxic levels of Vitamin A, which a baby’s liver can’t handle.
The new book has a recipe for a revised Tummy Brew – essentially a liver broth – shown in a baby bottle, next to a rattle.
The new recipe is in the section for kids aged six to 12 months, which is a fine time to introduce new foods to babies. However, the [World Health Organization guidelines](https://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/who-code breastfeeding) makes plain that “pictures or text that idealize the use of breast milk substitutes should not be used” when marketing food to children, mainly because people might assume that these foods are a safe substitute for breast milk.
The guidelines, which are not legally binding in Australia, suggest that images of bottles and teats not be used in any marketing to infants and toddlers.
The World Health Organization drew up its code in 1981, after concern about the number of Mums giving up breast milk for formula. It doesn’t cover only formula, however. It also covers “all other foods and beverages, including bottle-fed complementary foods ‘when marketed … for use as a partial or total replacement of breast milk.”
Pete’s recipe is careful to say it’s not an alternative to breast feeding, only that it will help get extra nutrients into your kids after the age of six months, provided you can get them to drink it.
Read The Weekly’s full story here
4.AUSTRALIA’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, has lost a key battle in the war against two of her children, but the fight seems certain to go on.
Today The Australian newspaper reports that the NSW Supreme Court has placed Gina’s daughter, Bianca, in charge of a $4 billion family trust.
The judge criticised Gina for trying to end the dispute with tactics “which closely approach intimidation.”
The Hope Margaret Hancock was established by Lang Hancock for his grandchildren.
Gina has mostly been in control. Two of her children – John and Bianca – took action to claim what they believe was rightfully theirs.
The legal battle has torn the family apart and severely damaged Mrs Rinehart’s reputation.
Justice Paul Brereton said he had “never seen such pressure exerted, so persistently, on a litigant (Bianca) as has been apparent in this case.”
He also noted that his decision “was not going to put litigation to an end between the parties.”
5.ON the upside, Gina is still the richest person in Australia and one of the richest in the world.
The BRW Rich List out today says Gina’s wealth has taken “a huge hit” from a falling iron ore price, but she’s still worth $14 billion, down from $20 billion last year.
Second on the list is cardboard king Anthony Pratt, who runs Visy, the company started by his late father, Richard. He’s worth $10 billion, up from $7 billion.
There are three new women on the list of 49 billionaires, including sisters Leonie Baldock and Alexandra Burt, who are granddaughters of Peter Wright, who was once in business with Lang Hancock; and Judith Neilson, who has separated from her investment banker husband Kerr Neilson, and has $1.5 billion in shares in their company in her own name.
But where, you ask, are the Packers? Look, you don’t have to worry: James is in 7th position with $6 billion, and for all his bleating about how he’s going out of business, Twiggy Forrest is doing okay, too, with $2.9 billion.
6.A 47-year-old woman has revealed how much she enjoys sex and all Australia is agog.
News reader Tracey Spicer told the ABC Confession Booth how she has long had an appetite for masturbation (including, as a girl, with her hard-back hairbrush) and most other types of messy, glorious sex.
She talks about the times it went badly and about the times it went well, and about smoking weed and being annoyed about having to polish her whole head and face before she walks out the door in the morning.
“Until tonight I have never admitted this because of pride,” she said, “after all a television news reader must be perfectly poised immaculately groom and above reproach.”
7.THE marvelous Hilary Mantel has given an intriguing glimpse into her creative process, explaining that she never saw the characters in her mega-selling novel, Wolf Hall, as dead.
In an article for The New York Times, Hilary talks about bringing her book to the stage – she’s up for a Tony award – saying: “In Stratford-on-Avon, in London, and now in New York, playgoers would ask the big question: How does it feel to see your characters come to life?”
“I answer with another question: When were they dead?”
“Even when I am half-asleep, Tudors charge in and out of my consciousness, banging the doors. I call them people, not characters. I make their costumes, but I call them clothes. I need to know the cost of the cloth, how to weave and dye it.”
“Henry didn’t know he was going to have six wives. Each time he thought, here’s the girl for me.”
“The characters don’t know their own fates. They can’t learn a lesson from themselves, and draw a moral. We have scripts, but they don’t. They are trapped in 50 years of improvisation, called life.”
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