LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Media magnate Kerry Packer, Australia's richest man, died late Monday after battling a long illness, according to media reports. Packer, who was 68, headed Australia's ...

Australian media mogul Kerry Packer has died at the age of 68. The country's richest man, he founded the publicly-listed Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd (PBL) through his company, Consolidated Press ...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - The wealthiest man in Australia, media and gambling mogul Kerry Packer, has died, his family said in a statement today. He was 68. Packer — ranked as the world's 94th wealthiest ...

Australia's political, business, sporting and entertainment elite have remembered the life of Kerry Packer with laughter and tears at a taxpayer-funded state memorial service. The billionaire ...

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A FEDERAL Court judge will today decide whether the secret of one of the great betting splurges in track history should be revealed. Late media baron Kerry Packer famously blew tens of millions of ...

Offspring star Lachy Hulme has said that he has to gain weight to play media mogul Kerry Packer in a new television series. The actor recently gained - then lost - 25kg to play Beaconsfield miner Todd ...

Dan Brettig, author of ‘Bradman & Packer’, discusses how it came to be that the pair met - in secret - to broker an end to the schism caused by Packer’s World Series Cricket, and the legacy left by ...

This was never going to be good news. “I’ve had Kerry Packer on the phone, he wants you sacked,’’ my editor said. “All I want to know is that you are confident your story is right?’’ The Daily ...

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has led the tributes for flamboyant media mogul Kerry Packer at a state memorial service at Sydney Opera House. Packer died in his Sydney home on 26 December, ...