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Sir Douglas Frank Hewson Packer KBE, OStJ (3 December 1906 – 1 May 1974), was an Australian media proprietor who controlled Australian Consolidated Press and the Nine Network. He was a patriarch of the Packer family . Early life.
Sir Douglas Frank Hewson Packer (1906-1974), media proprietor, was born on 3 December 1906 at Kings Cross, Sydney, elder child of Robert Clyde Packer, a Tasmanian-born journalist, and his wife Ethel Maude, née Hewson (d.1947), who came from Ireland
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Learn about the life and achievements of Frank Packer, a media mogul who launched Australian Women's Weekly, Daily Telegraph and Nine Network. He was a powerful political and business figure, a champion of the Liberal Party and a yachtsman who challenged for the America's Cup.
Learn about the life and career of legendary media baron Sir Frank Packer, who founded Australian Consolidated Press and the Nine network. This book covers his achievements, controversies, philanthropy and rivalry with Rupert Murdoch.
Sir Frank Packer dominated the Australian media landscape for forty years and most who crossed his path found him an endless source of puzzlement and interest. Journalists and printers still dine out on stories about Packer and their memoirs are littered with colourful anecdotes about him.
Jun 18, 2023 · Young recounts that all the most powerful press owners and managers were present: Keith Murdoch, Rupert Henderson, (general manager of the Fairfax company), Frank Packer (owner of Consolidated...
As my biography of Sir Frank Packer documented in 2000, the issue of succession at Consolidated Press had been resolved, somewhat poignantly, before Sir Frank’s death in 1974.
