In December Australia lost its richest citizen when media magnate Kerry Packer died after a long illness.
In December Australia lost its richest citizen when media magnate Kerry Packer passed away after a long illness.
But it is not journalistic benevolence that has driven Rupert Murdoch, any more than it motivated Kerry Packer.
The Indian Cricket League is reminiscent of the rebel World Cricket Series started by Australian TV magnate Kerry Packer in 1977.
It is 30 years since white balls were first introduced in Australia during the second year of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket.
Zee TV has done this with cricket (although Kerry Packer, an Australian media baron, did it on a grand scale 30 years ago).
He played 58 Tests for England from 1972-77, before giving up the captaincy to join Australian media magnate Kerry Packer's breakaway World Series.
The Australian businessman Kerry Packer formed a similar league in 1977.
The much-missed weekly news magazine the Bulletin - a kind of Australian Newsweek - did not survive many years beyond the death of its long-time owner Kerry Packer.
His off-course appetite for helicopters, deep-sea fishing and scuba and skydiving fortified the legend-allowing him to hobnob with the likes of the Australian media magnate Kerry Packer, Jack Welch and Bill Clinton and win lucrative endorsements from Chevrolet and Titleist, the golf-equipment maker.
His battles have ranged from the famed lifelong rivalry with fellow Aussie and one-time partner Kerry Packer to fierce competition with The New York Times, Time Warner Cable and most recently Google (in an interview last year with Sky News Australia, he threatened to remove stories from the search engine so readers would pay for content).
Forrest was joined earlier this year by fellow Australian billionaires James Packer, Kerry Stokes and Lindsay Fox in funding a philanthropic campaign called Generation One that was designed to raise awareness of the high unemployment and poor health of Aborigines.
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