Sir Frank Packer: A Biography

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This absorbing biography traces the newspaper career of Frank's father R.C. Packer from Hobart and the outback to the founding ofSmith's Weeklyin 1919. Overshadowed by his brilliant father, Frank was an academic failure at school and a mediocre cadet reporter. Despite his own lack of promise as a journalist, Frank came to rule the Australian media landscape with an iron fist.

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It is as full a measure of a colourful Australin tycoons life and times as I have read much warmer and more intimate than any of the biographies that have been written of the global media entrepreneur, Rupert Murdoch. -- V. J. Carroll * The Bulletin *
'Griffin-Foleys engaging writing style makes this an easy read for anyone interested in early Australian journalism and the media wars between the 1930s and 1960s.' -- Celeste Lawson * Media International Australia *

Author Bio

Bridget Griffen-Foley is professor of media at Macquarie University and the director of the Centre for Media History.