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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.
Frank Packer. 1906 - 1974 | NSW | Publisher. Sir Frank Packer was a poor student and aggressive child who rose to become Australia’s most successful and powerful media mogul until Rupert Murdoch built his international empire. Packer launched Australia’s most successful magazine, Australian Women’s Weekly, in 1933.
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.
22 de nov. de 2021 · His future in Australian corporate life will now be severely circumscribed, and his political clout and public prestige much diminished. Gone is the kind of power and influence wielded by his great-grandfather Robert Clyde Packer (known as R.C.), his grandfather Frank or his father Kerry.
Sydney University Press. ISBN: 9781743323823. 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 the Women's Weekly in the 1930s, his empire grew to encompass newspapers, magazines and the Nine ...
Frank Packer. Senior Adviser. Monetary and Economic Department. Before returning to Basel in 2024, Frank Packer had been an adviser to the Chief Representative as well as line manager in the BIS Asian Office in Hong Kong SAR.
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 the Women's Weekly in the 1930s, his empire grew to encompass newspapers, magazines and the Nine television network.
