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#Ninefairfax Deal End of an Era for Australia’s Media Titans
In 1990, young warwick fairfax’s disastrous bid to privatise john fairfax & sons resulted in the herald and associated interests being lost to the family.
Competition and co-operation. The former may seem an obvious aspect of the Australian media landscape, but it has always gone hand-in-hand with pragmatic co-operation.
Since the 1920s, the Packer and Murdoch media companies have been entwined with the oldest of Australia’s “old media” firms, Fairfax Media, which has its origins in the 1841 endeavours of printer and journalist John Fairfax.
Nap pods in a New York office building
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Every so often, as I down tools at the week’s end, pick up the kids and wonder what on earth I’m going to make for dinner, I cast my mind back to the days of being employed by a top tier law firm, and the thrill that I’d experience as Friday wore on. Because the weekend was approaching, certainly – but before that, and even more excitingly: sushi.
From 6pm each Friday, one of the glittering conference rooms became the site of free-flowing drinks and endless platters of sparklingly fresh Nigiri, Maki and Sashimi. It wasn’t even so much a case of stuffing my face (although I definitely would have, were I not so self-conscious) – it was more the fact that it was there, in such glorious abundance. It was, to me, whippersnapper that I was, the ultimate in professional glamour. Goodness only knows how beside myself I’d have been if I’d ever made partner.
The last known Tasmanian tiger died at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart back in 1936
Since then, there have been thousands of reported sightings of the marsupial
In 2005 The Bulletin offered $1.2million reward for a captured Tasmanian tiger
Magazine s billionaire owner Kerry Packer wanted to know the risk of paying out
Editor Garry Linnell assured Packer the brazen publicity stunt could not backfire
In this series, our writers explore how food shaped Australian history – and who we are today.
The first whiffs of Chinese cooking in mid-19th century Australia would have emanated from tiny huts owned by Chinese workers in the goldfields. There, they faced racial hostility from the European miners, culminating in the Lambing Flat riots in New South Wales in 1860-61, where Chinese residents of the fields were physically assaulted and had their camps set on fire.
Chinese cooks were also employed in farms and factories and sold food from “cookshops” in the various urban centres for other migrants, such as Sydney’s Chinese furniture factory workers.