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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 .
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.
the efforts of Sir Frank Packer. The Australian media proprietor, who had spent three years and hundreds of thousands of pounds preparing Australia’s challenge for the coveted America’s Cup, was seated between the president and the first lady.3 Adrenalin was the only thing keeping Sir Frank going. His decision to mount a
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 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, played by Tony Barry, appeared in the wings of the first Paper Giants. Now, in Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch War, the two dynasties go head-to-head. Power Games aired on Nine, the network Sir Frank himself established, and his grandson James sold.
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A keen sportsman, Frank's first successes were in the boxing ring and on the polo field. In 1962 he mounted Australia's first challenge for the America's Cup in the yacht Gretel, named after his late wife. Legendary media baron Sir Frank Packer was pugnacious,autocratic and always controversial.
