Up a billion: Packer’s casino bets pay offJames Packer still isn’t as rich as he was when his father died but, now with $5.21 billion to his name, he’s going in the right direction, writes Paul Barry.
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Rich List preview: final figure matters little, Gina’s so far ahead
Total wealth — which hit $167 billion last year — is still likely to rise thanks to one person: Gina Rinehart, whose fortune will climb by at least $8 billion and as much as $11 billion, depending on BRW’s final valuation.
With Karl, James Packer showed he has his swagger back
James Packer showed us last night in a very positive interview on 60 Minutes that perhaps a direct media stake is unnecessary.
Did Joe Hockey and Barry O’Farrell watch Packer on 60 Minutes?
The first time I met Joe Hockey was 19 years ago in the back of a cab from Sydney Airport with my then boss, Victorian treasurer Alan Stockdale. Joe was working for NSW Premier John Fahey and we were packed into the cab like sardines listening to the big guy rattle off all the things […]
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Only one gig in town this week
There was really only one gig in town this week, according to our charts, headlined by Treasurer Wayne Swan.
Mayne: ASX missing in action on Packer’s pay-TV sale
For a media proprietor, James Packer is one of the least communicative public company leaders in Australia.
Foxtel-Austar merger a terrible competition decision
The ACCC missed a major moment in the history of regulation in this country and a chance to boost national productivity and the pace of technological change, say Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane.
Mayne: Packer’s ill timed donation to Bob comes back to bite
While young Packer appears to have moved away from Scientology since his father’s death in late 2005, the puzzling ebbs and flows of his political associations are a little harder to fathom — Bob Katter being the latest.
Political snippets: Spending the Packer money
I wonder if this is the kind of message James Packer expected to be promoting?
Mayne: why Fairfax should tell Gina to wait 56 years
As the Fairfax Media board ponders how to respond to Gina Rinehart’s request for a board seat, maybe it should consider suggesting she wait another 56 years.
Mayne: after 20 year attempt, Packer launches another Sydney casino push
Three generations of the Packer family have enjoyed their status as influential media, business and gambling players in Sydney.
Media market falls: Fairfax down 44%, Ten down 13%, losses for APN
Beware the Ides of February at the Ten Network? The latest news makes the previous regime a success and calls into question the decision-making of the board and previous chairman Brian Long.
Mayne: now’s not the time for Rinehart to be be saying ‘look at me’
Journalists love nothing more than speculating about the future of media companies, so Gina Rinehart has created an avalanche of commentary with her high-profile raid on Fairfax Media.
Media briefs: Naparstek quits The Monthly … Leveson latest … UK journos tweet from court …
Ben Naparstek — the baby-faced wonder who was roundly ridiculed for becoming editor of The Monthly at the age of 23 only to make the magazine more widely-read than ever — has now quit to join Fairfax. Plus other media news.
Political snippets: Australian caution on oil shale gas justified?
One of the consistent claims of the United States oil shale gas industry and its method of production involving “fracturing” has been “we’ve never had one confirmed case of groundwater contamination.” Well, that is a claim that can be made no longer.
The billion dollar blues: how the GFC hit our richest
The 2007 BRW Rich 200 list represented a high water mark for many of Australia’s best-known entrepreneurs. So how far have they fallen post-GFC?
‘Imbecile’ pokies activist funds full-page newspaper ad
Despite the Baillieu government’s reluctance to tackle serious pokies reform, Victoria is central to the campaign for change and Paul Bendat’s full-page ad is a sign of what is to come for Victorian Liberals.
Media power shifts: watch for a Stokes move on Fairfax
Control of Fairfax Media’s sprawling newspaper, online and radio operations is suddenly available for as little as $500 million.
Packer gets the fluffy treatment from Channel 7 news
Yesterday we saw James Packer at the Crown AGM criticising the proposed changes to poker machine laws, call on the federal government to do more to stimulate tourism and then cop a vote of 55% against his company’s 2011 remuneration report. You wouldn’t know that from his interview with Channel Seven’s Jennifer Keyte.
Packer comes to lunch, AFR delivers the pokies threats
We all know that James Packer doesn’t get out much in public, so The Australian Financial Review was clearly chuffed that he agreed to give yesterday’s star-studded “Chanticleer Chairman’s Lunch” in Sydney some extra gravitas.
Bolt exaggerates paymaster’s anti-pokies campaign — again
Despite Crikey alerting the world of his failure to disclose an association with the pokies lobby after this hysterical September 3 column, News Ltd’s biggest columnist has repeated the effort in today’s paper.
Why are Victorian ratepayers paying Graham Richardson?
After being paid millions by the Packer family empire since he quit federal Parliament in 1994, Labor Party fixer Graham Richardson has admitted his retainer came to an end about 12 months ago.
