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Sir Douglas Frank Hewson Packer KBE, OStJ (3 December 1906 – 1 May 1974), was an Australian media proprietor who controlled Australian Consolidated Press and the Nine Network. He was a patriarch of the Packer family.
Frank Packer. Senior Adviser. Monetary and Economic Department. Before returning to Basel in 2024, Frank Packer had been an adviser to the Chief Representative as well as line manager in the BIS Asian Office in Hong Kong SAR.
Sir Frank Packer was a poor student and aggressive child who rose to become Australia’s most successful and powerful media mogul until Rupert Murdoch built his international empire. Packer launched Australia’s most successful magazine, Australian Women’s Weekly, in 1933.
Sir Frank Packer dominated the Australian media landscape for forty years and most who crossed his path found him an endless source of puzzlement and interest. Journalists and printers still dine out on stories about Packer and their memoirs are littered with colourful anecdotes about him.
14 de jun. de 2009 · Frank Packer. Before moving to the BIS Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific, Frank Packer was head of Financial Markets in the BIS's Monetary and Economic Department, and editor of the BIS Quarterly Review of international banking and financial market developments.
Legendary media baron Sir Frank Packer was pugnacious, autocratic and always controversial. After joining forces with Labor politician E.G. Theodore to establish Australian Consolidated Press and the Women's Weekly in the 1930s, his empire grew to encompass newspapers, magazines and the Nine television network.
Despite his own lack of promise as a journalist, Frank came to rule the Australian media landscape with an iron fist. He was famous for his spectacular takeover bids and editorial interventions, his closeness to Prime Minister Menzies and his pitched battles with unions.
