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	Kerry Packer
		Kerry Packer (born 1937) is arguably Australia's richest man, as his major rival for the title, Rupert Murdoch, became an American citizen in the 1980s.
		Packer is the major shareholder in Publishing and Broadcasting Limited[?], which owns the Nine television network and Australian Consolidated Press[?], which produces many of Australia's top-selling magazines.
		Packer is involved in a number of other gambling and tourism ventures, notably the Crown casino[?] in Melbourne.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ke/Kerry_Packer.html (70 words)

	Kerry Packer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Packer is widely respected in business circles, courted by politicians on both sides, and there is no doubt that he is one of the most astute businessmen of his time, despite the fact that he was a poor student.
		Packer also occasionally interferes directly in the programming of his TV stations, and during the early 1990s he famously called his Sydney station, TCN-9 and ordered that the Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos program hosted by Doug Mulray be taken off air, because he objected to the content.
		Packer is a keen polo player, was a longtime chain smoker, and remains an avid gambler, fabled for his titanic wins and losses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kerry_Packer (950 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Packer was not the type to back down from a challenge and when he was refused the broadcast rights to Australian Test cricket in 1977, he launched his own World Series Cricket, poaching some of the game's greatest stars.
		Packer once called himself "academically stupid" but there was no doubting his skill in the boardroom, where his jaw-dropping deals were greeted with envy and amazement.
		Packer was named as a drugs kingpin known as The Goanna but vehemently denied the allegations and was formally cleared of any wrongdoing in 1987, although the episode reinforced his determination to avoid the spotlight.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/1E3C7DC8-B59A-4ED7-B8AB-BD2D2C15610C.htm (567 words)

	Kerry Packer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kerry Packer (born 1937) is arguably Australia's richest man, as his major rival for the title, Rupert Murdoch, became an American citizen in the 1980s.
		Packer is the major shareholder in Publishing and Broadcasting Limited, which owns the Nine television network and Australian Consolidated Press, which produces many of Australia's top-selling magazines.
		Packer is involved in a number of other gambling and tourism ventures, notably the Crown casino in Melbourne.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/k/ke/kerry_packer.html (91 words)

	Kerry Packer; Australia media mogul turned millions into billions; 68 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Packer reputedly had few close friends, and was known for a formidably competitive and abrasive personality, which he often displayed as a negotiator in business deals and in litigation.
		Packer gave no attention to the arts or education – his personal pursuits were polo, golf and gambling – but he donated significantly to the Australian hospitals and medical researchers he came to know in his treatments.
		Packer endured from his father – including beatings with a polo whip, which he described in a 1979 interview – he had a warm relationship with his only son, James, who succeeded him in 2000 as head of the media and gambling companies.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20051231/news_1m31packer.html (824 words)

	America's Cup Inductees: Sir Frank Packer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1962, Sir Frank Packer issued a challenge for the America’s Cup through the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron.
		Along with Baron Bich, who was celebrated for inspiring non-Anglo-Saxon Europeans to participate in yacht racing, Sir Frank Packer led the challenge of the Antipodes and produced an equally significant impact on America’s Cup competition.
		Packer’s second attempt at the Cup with GRETEL in 1970 marked him as the progenitor of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron challenges.
	www.herreshoff.org /Tops/mmvtpackertop.htm (171 words)

	Australia's richest man, media mogul Kerry Packer, dead at 68 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Packer - listed by Forbes magazine this year as the 94th richest man in the world with a fortune of $5 billion US - died at his Sydney home Monday evening, according to a family statement released through his Nine Network television channel.
		Packer was trained in all aspects of his father's business except as a reporter - he suffered from the learning disability dyslexia and was not considered journalist material.
		Packer was undoubtedly a powerful businessman, courted by prime ministers and credited with using his media empire to make or break governments.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/business/051226/b122620.html (854 words)

	EJANZH: Reviews
		In her new biography of Sir Frank Packer, Bridget Griffen-Foley helps to explain the emergence of a 'house style' and a family business approach which is at once brash, forceful, feudal towards employees and shrewd to the point of unscrupulousness with rivals.
		Gretel Bulmore, Frank's first and longest surviving partner is profiled for her social contribution in helping to move the Packers from the edge of Sydney society as 'new rich' towards their later established place of intimacy and acceptance (if at times grudging) as confidents of Prime Ministers and the business establishment.
		Frank Packer's war-time years as an army officer confirm less endearing yet enduring personality traits, in particular a sensitivity to criticism, especially from the unions and the Labor Party, as well as an uneasiness with organisational constraints, and a general liking for having his own way.
	www.jcu.edu.au /aff/history/reviews/foley.htm (976 words)

	The Daily Journal - Australia loses media mogul Kerry Packer
		Packer had a name as a bully to his employees, not least his executives, and extended his profanity-spattered truculence to politicians and businessmen.
		Packer went to Australia's most prestigious private school, Geelong Grammar, just three years after another son of a famous media father, Rupert Murdoch, had left - their paths were to cross often as they became dominant figures in the Australian media.
		Packer collapsed with a heart attack while playing polo in October 1990; he was technically dead for eight minutes, but was revived by ambulance officers, offering the laconic comment: "I've seen what's on the other side, and believe me, there's nothing there." A quintuple heart bypass followed.
	www.thedailyjournalonline.com /article.asp?ArticleId=214817&CategoryId=13003 (2910 words)

	Kerry Packer Biography
		Packer’s condition was very severe which forced him to spend nine months immobilised in an iron lung, an early version of a respirator, which helped him to breathe.
		Packer responded by signing up 50 of the world's best players, while converting trotting grounds and football ovals to cricket grounds, growing his own pitches in transportable concrete boxes and televising his own versions of Test matches and one-day internationals.
		Packer is known to be a gambler betting millions, and high wining nights has been known to tip staff enough to pay off their mortgage.
	www.investingvalue.com /investment-leaders/kerry-packer/index.htm (729 words)

	This essay will provide a comprehensive overview of the Channel Nine Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Frank Packer was granted a license to run TCN 9 whilst the other Sydney license was awarded to a consortium lead by Fairfax and Macquarie Broadcasting.
		Packer told the ACB that he was willing to pay 500,000 dollars a year for exclusive rights, more than seven times what the ABC was prepared to pay, and still he was knocked back.
		Packer had successfully won the rights to International Cricket, a sport of national appeal, but, due to the two-station rule, his audience reach was restricted to just 43 percent of the population.
	www.arts.monash.edu.au /ncas/resources/conferences/40years/Koce.html (5861 words)

	AFANA Footy News -- Trisha's Community Work Recognized -- 2/1/2006 at 7:56pm ET
		Packer was an unashamed devotee of television and his Nine Network dominated the airwaves with a combination of news, current affairs and sports telecasts.
		Packer survived a number of serious illnesses throughout his life including childhood polio, the removal of a cancerous kidney and a diseased gall-bladder in 1986, and diabetes.
		Packer's kidney complaint eventually deteriorated to the point where he was kept alive by dialysis until kidney surgery in the US in 1998.
	www.afana.com /cgi-bin/netpaper/netpaper.cgi?action=view&item=feb12006-84177.html (9862 words)

	The Peninsula On-line: Qatar's leading English Daily
		Packer, who died in his Sydney home late on Monday aged 68, was regarded with awe by Australians, as much for his larger-than-life personality as his fearsome business reputation.
		Packer adopted a typically no-nonsense approach to his own mortality when he nearly died playing polo in 1990 after suffering a severe attack during which his heart stopped beating for at least six minutes.
		Packer’s success was such that the ACB, now known as Cricket Australia, was among the first to pay tribute after his death.
	www.thepeninsulaqatar.com /features/featuredetail.asp?file=decemberfeatures402005.xml (864 words)

	Packer, Sir Douglas Frank Hewson (1906 - 1974) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Packer scrutinized the wartime activities of his publications, which were struggling under newsprint and censorship restrictions; on one occasion he was accused of running his papers during government time.
		He resented Warnecke's closeness to R. Packer and his belief that he was entitled to a major shareholding in the company; Warnecke maintained that Frank did not want to be seen as 'the playboy son of a rich father' or to share the credit for his achievements.
		Packer had immense charm, when he cared to exercise it, but he was viewed with disdain by some members of the establishment.
	www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A150644b.htm (2468 words)

	Kerry Packer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His son, Frank Packer, continued the good work, but it was Kerry, Frank’s son, who turned the company into the giant conglomerate that funded his amazing lifestyle.
		Packer is said to have lost $20 million in a three-day Baccarat binge in Vegas.
		Soon after the operation, Kerry Packer was back at the helm of his empire, where he’s grooming his son James as his successor.
	www.bellerockgambling.com /article-view.asp?ID=11 (446 words)

	Media Mogul Kerry Packer dead
		Packer's Channel Nine television station in Sydney said his wife Roslyn had issued a statement saying the 68-year-old billionaire died peacefully at home in his bed.
		Packer, with an estimated wealth of A$6.9 billion (2.9 billion pounds), was 68.
		In 1990 Packer suffered a heart attack while playing polo in Sydney and was clinically dead for eight minutes until emergency medical officers revived him by electric shock treatment.
	in.rediff.com /cricket/2005/dec/27packer.htm (692 words)

	Packer Group: Overview
		Hyperbole about the Packer 'midas touch' was undermined by losses relating to property development with Western Australian entrepreneur Warren Anderson (down an estimated $200 million on the high profile Westralia Square project) and 10% of Indian telecommunications group Himachal Futuristic (estimated $396 million investment).
		Hoyts was delisted by Packer in 1999 for an aggregate $750 million.
		The life of Sir Frank Packer - though this present hagiography almost disguises the fact - is that of a larrikin who almost all his life has had the kind of money to indulge himself to the full.
	www.ketupa.net /packer.htm (1440 words)

	Kerry Packer \| Media \| MediaGuardian.co.uk
		Packer, the unrepentant smoker, was said to have been annoyed at the rumours.
		Packer, who according to Barry was shattered by the innuendo, identified himself as the Goanna but denied the allegations.
		Packer never shared Rupert Mur- doch's ambitions for a global media empire, and did not succeed in the family's long-term aspirations to take over Fairfax, the publisher of the profitable Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age newspapers.
	media.guardian.co.uk /site/story/0,14173,1674264,00.html (1543 words)

	Articles By Keith Robbins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sir Frank called to stop, jumped out of the car and rescued the sick animal, which was by no means a thoroughbred, and had no collar around his neck.
		Sir Frank had a sizeable wager on his horse and as Lake was a renowned whip rider he was well aware of his owner’s hatred of over use of the whip.
		On the Sunday, Sir Frank made his usual visit to the stable to inspect his horses and Ward was well prepared with his alibi, obviously that the horse had such a hard run he needed a short rest in the bush.
	www.racenet.com.au /articles/anmviewer.asp?a=72&print=yes (1771 words)

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		Australian media magnate Sir Frank Packer was the first challenger from south of the equator.
		The beginning of the multiple challenges, and newspaper magnate Frank Packer had to dispose of Baron Marcel Bich of France before engaging the previous winner, Intrepid.
		Packer did not go quietly, however, and his accusations of cheating against the NYYC—the door to Intrepid’s head had been removed, fairings were installed near Intrepid’s rudder, and Gretel ’s disqualification in Race 2—errupted in a war of words that initiated correspondence between the Australian consulate and the U.S. State Department.
	www.chez.com /hauraki/LatestNews/1958-1988-LN.htm (1132 words)

	Kerry Packer - Independent Online Edition > Obituaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Packer was born into one of the toughest newspaper families in one of the world's toughest newspaper cities.
		Packer later described his decision to sell as ''gut- wrenching'', and likened it to how his father must have felt when he sold the Packer family's newspapers to Murdoch 15 years earlier.
		Packer bought for A$225m most of Fairfax's substantial stable of magazines, which he was offloading to help pay for his privatisation.
	news.independent.co.uk /people/obituaries/article335308.ece (2902 words)

	Kerry Packer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kerry Packer was sent to boarding school at the age of 5 and caught a serious illness called Polio a year later.
		Kerry Packer finished school when he was 19 and went to work with his father in the newspaper industry.
		Packer is very good at knowing when to buy and when to sell.
	teachit.acreekps.vic.edu.au /cyberfair2001/KerryPacker.htm (385 words)

	Department of State Washington File: N.Y. Federal Reserve Bank Economist on Japanese Bond Market
		Packer made that observation in his article "Credit Risk in Japan's Corporate Bond Market" in the November 1999 issue of Current Issues in Economics and Finance, a publication of the Research and Market Analysis Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
		Of particular interest, Packer said, is the fact that the increase in spreads since 1997 has been greater for keiretsu firms -- informal networks of large firms that maintain close business, financial and managerial ties -- than for other firms.
		Japan's major corporations, noted Packer, have in recent years increased their dependence on the corporate bond market, while cutting back on direct loans from Japanese banks, though bank loans are still the primary source of outside financing.
	usembassy-australia.state.gov /hyper/2000/0106/epf406.htm (659 words)

	Generations of the same footsteps - Opinion - smh.com.au
		The founder, Robert Clyde, Frank's father, thought when Frank was a young man that he was too soft for the Sydney newspaper life and sent him to run a country pub.
		In The House of Packer, Bridget Griffen-Foley quotes Kerry Packer as joking, "I got fired so many times I lost count", and she says he was regarded as the "idiot son".
		The Packer dynasty was started by a journalistic original from Tasmania, a populist with a talent for stunts such as free insurance and the Miss Australia quest, who had a natural affinity with the Labor Party.
	www.smh.com.au /news/opinion/generations-of-the-same-footsteps/2005/12/27/1135445571957.html (746 words)

	Gambling's Greatest Wins, Runs, Records and Legends - Part 5
		You can hear Frank along with Rudi Schiffer on the The Good Times Radio gaming show every Saturday from 11:00 to noon Central Standard Time, or listen to the entire show beginning at 9:30am.
		Let gaming's premier writer, Frank Scoblete, show you easy-to-learn-and-apply expert strategies for all three games and explain why these are the best possible and the most practical strategies to use.
		Frank clearly explains how the casinos structure their games to create an almost unbeatable edge and what the player can do to combat it.
	scoblete.casinocitytimes.com /articles/250.html (1351 words)

	asslh.org.au - Hummer Archive - vol 3 no 6-Bridget Griffen-Foley., The House of Packer: The Making of a Media Empire, ...
		In all probability, this modus-operandi was not confined to Packer himself, it seems to have been characteristic of all of the management of the Packer media empire.
		Griffen-Foley details the Packers’ foray into television, including the story of Frank Packer’s instruction to Gyngell to interrupt the broadcast of a movie so he could show his friends a horse race (p.217).
		Rupert Murdoch described Frank Packer as ‘the biggest crook in Australian newspapers, but equally he is the cleverest’ (p.281), while Arthur Fadden referred to The Daily Telegraph as the ‘sausage wrapper’ (p.193).
	www.asslh.com /sydney/hummer/vol3no6/packer.htm (759 words)

	Obituary - Kerry Packer - Topic Powered by eve community
		Packer went to Australia’s most prestigious private school, Geelong Grammar, just three years after another son of a famous media father, Rupert Murdoch, had left — their paths were to cross often as they became dominant figures in the Australian media.
		For cricket traditionalists, Kerry Packer remains the ogre who smashed up a cosy, amateur-run game in the interests of television ratings: in fact, he ensured that players for the first time were properly paid, as he forced cricket to face commercial realities — if with an element of “dumbing-down”.
		Packer’s personal interests in gambling, in sport, in business and finance and, of course, his own family, held little to no interest to me. When I saw the profile of Kerry Packer on WIN TV this evening, though, I found most of the information about his life interesting and revealing.
	forum.tradesports.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/76160328/m/5201060641 (3431 words)

	National Portrait Gallery
		On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of media magnate Sir Frank Packer KBE on 3 December, the National Portrait Gallery celebrated the handover of a portrait of Packer by one of Australia's best-loved portraitists, Judy Cassab AO CBE.
		He was an aggressive sailor, and chaired a syndicate that built Gretel and Gretel II to challenge the America’s Cup in 1962 and 1970.
		Although Sir Frank Packer has long been on the list of desirable subjects for the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, it was a portrait of Lady Packer that was first acquired – a photograph taken by Cecil Beaton on his Australian visit in 1968.
	www.portrait.gov.au /static/Portrait_Unveiling_Sir_Frank_Packer.php (597 words)

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