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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781743323823
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2014
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Description:
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.
ISBN: 9781743323823
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2014
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Description:
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.