Rolled gold robbery: Rogue charmerâs $5m Packer heist In May 1995, a master crook did the seemingly impossible- walked out of Kerry Packerâs Sydney office with 285kg of gold bullion â and got away with it.
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Premium Content In the first week of May 1995, a story began unfolding in Sydney. A total of 285kg of gold bullion worth $5.4m had been stolen from Australia s richest man under the nose of 24-hour security. The gold had been lifted from a safe in Kerry Packer s Australian Consolidated Press headquarters in the CBD and the theft, leaked to the press on May 1, had police baffled.
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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.