Ebook: Packer's Lunch
- Tags: Capitalism and mass media--Australia, Capitalists and financiers--Australia, Stockbrokers--Australia, Stockbrokers, Capitalism and mass media, Capitalists and financiers, Economic history, Biographies, Packer Kerry, Kennedy Trevor, Richardson Graham -- 1949-, Rivkin Rene -- 1944-2005, Capitalism and mass media -- Australia, Capitalists and financiers -- Australia -- Biography, Stockbrokers -- Australia -- Biography, Australia -- Economic conditions -- 1945-, Australia -- Economic conditions -- 21st centur
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Allen & Unwin
- City: Australia;Crows Nest;N.S.W;Northam
- Language: English
- epub
The updated edition of the much-lauded, Walkley award-winning book that laid bare the deals and deeds of Graham Richardson, Trevor Kennedy and Rene Rivkin and Sydney's other power players of the 1990s.
The dark channels of money and power that flow beneath the surface of Australian society are perilous places. Behind the gossip columns and headlines, the famous names and celebrity makeovers, life is a precarious business. One wrong move spells disaster. For this is the world of the networkers. The games they play, the restaurants they frequent and the social circles they inhabit determine who is in and who is out. Who ends up very rich and who is bankrupt. Everyone is a diner, but who gets to share the crumbs and who ends up on the menu?
For years Graham Richardson, Trevor Kennedy and Rene Rivkin navigated these waters deftly, with a little secret help from their offshore advisor. The exposure of their Swiss accounts uncovered a world of secret share trading going back...