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SIR FRANK PACKER IBD

BRIDGET GRIFFEN FOLEY
SYDNEY UNIVERSITY PRESS
03 / 2014
9781743323823
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Sinopsis

Legendary media baron Sir Frank Packer was pugnacious, autocratic and always controversial. After joining forces with Labor politician E.G. Theodore to establish Australian Consolidated Press and theáWomenâÇÖs Weeklyáin the 1930s, his empire grew to encompass newspapers, magazines and the Nine television network.This absorbing biography traces the newspaper career of FrankâÇÖs father R.C. Packer from Hobart and the outback to the founding of SmithâÇÖs Weekly in 1919. Overshadowed by his brilliant father, Frank was an academic failure at school and a mediocre cadet reporter. Despite his own lack of promise as a journalist, Frank came to rule the Australian media landscape with an iron fist.He was famous for his spectacular takeover bids and editorial interventions, his closeness to Prime Minister Menzies and his pitched battles with unions. A philanthropist as well as a philanderer, he bullied his staff including his sons Clyde and Kerry. In 1960s Sydney, he jostled with the rising Rupert Murdoch for control of the countryâÇÖs largest newspaper market.A keen sportsman, FrankâÇÖs first successes were in the boxing ring and on the polo field. In 1962 he mounted AustraliaâÇÖs first challenge for the AmericaâÇÖs Cup in the yacht Gretel, named after his late wife.