The major brawl brewing over Bob Hawke's will
<p>Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke’s daughter and his widow are currently battling it out over his multi-million dollar will.</p>
<p>His daughter, Rosslyn Dillion, is preparing to take legal action against Blanche d’Alpuget and let her stepmother know of her intentions in a tense phone call.</p>
<p>The contestation of the will comes after Dillon discovered that after the payout of $750,000, which includes the proceeds of the $15 million sale of a Northbridge home, there are no further provisions for his three children in the will.</p>
<p>The rest of the estate will be going to d’Alpuget, his wife and biographer, according to <a rel="noopener" href="https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2019/07/16/bob-hawke-will/" target="_blank"><em>The New Daily</em></a>.</p>
<p>The current arrangement that was struck up separately to Mr Hawke’s will has his three children, Susan Pieters-Hawke, Stephen Hawke and Rosslyn Dillon being awarded around $750,000 immediately upon his death in a payment from d’Alpuget.</p>
<p>The payment was also awarded to d’Alpuget’s son, Louis Pratt, upon the death of Mr Hawke.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Rosslyn Davis talking to ABC's 7:30</em></p>
<p>Unless a private agreement is struck between the parties, the matter will proceed to the NSW Supreme Court. It will be on the grounds of inadequate family provision.</p>
<p>Mr Hawke’s three children were estranged from their stepmother for many years after their father remarried in 1995, but had repaired the relationship in recent years.</p>
<p>However, there was a hint of family issues at the memorial of Mr Hawke, as d’Alpuget mentioned his “eldest daughter Sue Pieters-Hawke” twice in her speech but did not mention her two siblings.</p>
<p>d’Alpuget also hinted at family issues in her book<em> Hawke: Prime Minister</em> as she outlined that Rosslyn first ran away from home as a 15-year-old schoolgirl. She was later found by her father and his friend in a drug den in Sydney.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Bob Hawke and Blanche d'Alpuget at the book launch of Hawke: The Prime Minister</em></p>
<p>“It was obvious to everyone who knew Rosslyn and her husband, who partied with the Brett and Wendy Whiteley crowd, that they were using heroin; everyone, that is, except her parents, who clung steadfastly to the belief that their daughter did not use hard drugs,” d’Alpuget wrote.</p>
<p>“The news from the hospital in the first week of August that the new mother was so wasted by heroin she could soon be dead fell on Hawke like a blow from an axe.”</p>
<p>In 2011, there was also reports of an “airport brawl” between Sue Pieters-Hawke and d’Alpuget.</p>
<p>“I approached her to say a friendly hello, but she slapped me hard three or four times, and yes, I was shaken,” Ms Pieters-Hawke said to ABC’s <em>7:30</em>.</p>
