Chance


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Who wants to be a Billionaire?


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The unauthorised biography of Australia's richest man, James Packer, now in paperback.




Lord of Light


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Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rules their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman. Binder of Demons. Lord of Light.




The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer


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Kerry Packer is Australia's richest and most powerful man, with a media empire worth $3000 million. He is also a very private person. His friends generally refuse to speak about him, while his employees and rivals don't dare. But what is he really like and where did he come from?In this the first book ever written about the man and his family, Paul Barry charts the Packer dynasty's unstoppable rise to power.The Packers have always made enemies and almost always had their way with the world. Buccaneers in business, Kerry's grandfather, R.C. Packer, and father, Frank, had a reputation for hot temper and bullying, but they also inspired great loyalty. Big figures on the political scene, they used their papers unashamedly to make and break governments.Yet Kerry is infinitely more powerful than they ever were. Politicians come to him to ask him what he wants.As a child, Kerry was considered an idiot by his schoolmates and family. Called 'boofhead' by his father, he was never encouraged to smile on himself or the world. Now, having massively increased the family fortune, he is said to be lonely, unhappy and easily bored.Two years of intensive research and hundreds of interviews make THE RISE AND RISE OF KERRY PACKER a compelling biography of Australia's least understood tycoon. But above all, it is a disturbing portrait of power in Australia and how it can be used.




Rich Kids


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The riveting inside story of how the Murdochs and Packers lost $950 million in One.Tel. Young, hip and smart, like the rich kids who backed it, One.Tel grew faster than any company in Australian history - then vanished in a puff of smoke. At the height of the hype, in November 1999, One.Tel was worth more than $5 billion, almost as much as Kerry Packer's entire empire. Its founder, Jodee Rich, was worth close to $2 billion, with two houses, a jet, a helicopter, three powerboats and a private resort in the WhitSundays. Less than 18 months later the 'fun and friendly' phone company was gone, the Packers and Murdochs had lost nearly $1 billion, and Jodee Rich was being investigated by Australia's corporate cops. Rich Kids is the inside story of One.Tel's meteoric rise and fall, told by award-winning investigative journalist Paul Barry. It's a tale of chaos, incompetence, greed and deceit; of an era when huge fortunes were made in the crazy dot-com boom; and of James Packer's and Lachlan Murdoch's business brilliance - or lack of it. Above all, Rich Kids is the story of One.Man. Jodee Rich dragged millions of dollars from the wreckage of his first corporate disaster in the 1980s, then seduced Australia's two most powerful families to back him in One.Tel u and did it all over again. Getting closer to the publicity-shy Rich than anyone else has ever been able, Paul Barry delivers an explosive and entertaining account of one of Australia's biggest corporate disasters.




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