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Frank Packer
Australian Media Proprietor
Male
Born
Dec 3, 1906
Hometown
New South Wales
Died
May 1, 1974
Death Place
New South Wales
Other Names
Packer, Douglas F...
Sir Douglas Frank Hewson Packer, KBE, was an Australian media proprietor who controlled Australian Consolidated Press and the Nine Network.
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CHILDHOOD
1906
Birth
Born on December 3, 1906.
TEENAGE
1923
16 Years Old
He attended Wahroonga Grammar School and Sydney Church of England Grammar School; however he did not sit for the Intermediate Certificate. In 1923, Packer became a cadet journalist on his father's paper, The Daily Guardian.
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TWENTIES
1933
26 Years Old
In 1933, Packer started the Australian Women's Weekly and then transformed The Daily Telegraph into one of Australia's leading newspapers.
Packer inherited his media interests on his father's death in 1934.
In 1936, he joined with Ted Theodore's Sydney Newspapers and Associated Newspapers to form Australian Consolidated Press.
FORTIES
1956
49 Years Old
When television was introduced to Australia in 1956, Packer, along with the other major newspaper publishers (Fairfax, HWT and David Syme), became a significant television network shareholder under the federal government's "dual formula", which allowed each capital city to have two commercial networks and one ABC.
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FIFTIES
1959
52 Years Old
He was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1959, for services to journalism and the newspaper industry.
1960
53 Years Old
Gretel Packer died in 1960.
1964
57 Years Old
Packer married for the second time in June 1964 to Florence Adeline Vincent (née Porges) in London.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1971
64 Years Old
In the New Year's Honours of 1971 Sir Frank Packer was promoted within the Order of the British Empire to Knight Commander (KBE), for services to Australian and international yachting.
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In 1972, Sir Frank Packer sold his newspaper flagship, The Daily Telegraph, to Rupert Murdoch, a decision he reportedly regretted.
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1974
67 Years Old
On 1 May 1974, Sir Frank Packer died of heart failure, leaving an estate valued at $100 million.
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