Pratt pleads sainthood …. Kill people, get money. Simple really … iPod index … eBay payments still a problem for customers
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Could billionaire Dick Pratt really go to jail?
It is extraordinary to think that Pratt would have pleaded guilty to last year’s cartel action and agreed to pay $35 million in fines without closing off all possibilities of doing jail, writes Stephen Mayne.
Ray Williams is no Bondy, Steve, Dick or Jack
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Daily Telegraph have today gone to town on former HIH Insurance CEO Ray Williams, creating a feeding frenzy of talkback anger that will no doubt lead to attacks on the family home in Seaforth, pictures of which have been plastered all over the papers, writes Stephen Mayne.
Kohler: Black goes down, Pratt should count his lucky stars
It is kind of breathtaking to reflect on the contrasting judicial treatment of two rich law-breakers who happened, for a while, to be neighbours on Central Park in New York – Conrad Black and Richard Pratt, writes Alan Kohler.
Pratt to expand Kunkel’s role at Visy
It is not without irony that Richard Pratt has significantly expanded the role of former Foster’s chief, Ted Kunkel at Visy. Kunkel has a bit of experience “overseeing” Pratt’s dealings, writes Adam Schwab.
70% say jail Pratt. I like him, says the PM
ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel argues that price fixing offences should attract a criminal penalty, being a “form of theft and little different from classes of corporate crime that already attract criminal sentences”. It seems that the majority of Australian agree, writes Jonathan Green.
Abjorensen: Menzies would never have praised Pratt
The late Bob Menzies knew a thing or two about Australia and Australians that his acolyte John Howard does not. We do not, as a rule, like bosses. And for good reason, writes Norman Abjorensen.
Qantas Club musings: Pratt, Rupert and Margaret Jackson
Dick Pratt, the federal election, AGM season, taking on Rupert Murdoch in New York. Talk about bedlam. Sitting here at the Qantas Club in Melbourne Airport, it’s nice to finally draw breath ahead of the News Corp AGM on Friday, writes Stephen Mayne.
Forget Pratt and Vizard, ASIC goes after Robert Norman Dale
As the Federal Court mulls over the extent of the financial penalty for Visy and Dick Pratt for their part in the great carboard carton cartel, consider this press release from another regulator, ASIC, writes Glenn Dyer.
Pratt’s insults not quite disguised as an apology
The spinners and lawyers who’ve crafted Dick Pratt’s letter to Visy customers have done Pratt and Visy no favours. Instead of a mea culpa, they’ve crafted an insult, writes Michael Pascoe.
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Peter Garrett’s CV … Dick Pratt … David Flint and voter fraud … water allocations … principle and politics … youthful indiscretions … post-natal depression … World Youth Day …
Did Dick Pratt’s donations influence Costello’s cartel backflip?
When ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel launched his jihad on cartels in 2003-04, Peter Costello promised to change the law but then never delivered. Did number one Liberal donor Dick Pratt influence this? asks Stephen Mayne.
Pratt 2: proof that the rich are indeed different
It’s the stuff of F. Scott Fitzgerald: the super-rich are indeed different. Dick Pratt had more money than he could count but he still went ahead and at least sanctioned a grubby cartel deal to rip off just about everyone he knew by inflating cardboard box prices, writes Michael Pascoe.
Al Gore, Dick Pratt and the long chase for Moby Dick
In piecing together various elements of the Judd chase, we bring you a tale of intrigue, chicanery and not a little knavery, writes Charles Happell.
Dick Pratt, Macquarie Bank and Bill Shorten…join the dots
The Sunday program’s Ross Coulthart has been in touch to debunk my story in Monday’s Crikey and stress that the only source of information for his cover-story attack on the Transport Workers Union came from within the union itself – and mostly from serving officials, writes Stephen Mayne.
