biography
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Packer, Kerry (Francis Bullmore)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1937– )
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| biography:
| Media proprietor, born in Sydney, New South Wales, SE Australia. He inherited the Australian Consolidated Press (ACP) group from his father, Sir Frank Packer. In the 1977–8 season he created ‘World Series Cricket’, contracting the leading Test cricketers for a knock-out series of one-day matches and ‘Super-Tests’, played in colourful costume and often under floodlights, sole television rights for which were held by ACP's Channel Nine. This led to disputes with national cricket bodies, and provoked many legal battles, before a modus operandi was established. He sold Channel Nine to Alan Bond at the height of the 1987 boom for $A1 billion, only to buy it back in 1990 for a fraction of that amount. He has pastoral, mining, manufacturing, and property investments, and is assumed to be the richest person in Australia. |
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