Download or read book Sir Frank Packer written by Bridget Griffin-Foley and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legendary media baron Sir Frank Packer was pugnacious, autocratic and always controversial. After joining forces with Labor politician E.G. Theodore to establish Australian Consolidated Press and the Women's Weekly in the 1930s, his empire grew to encompass newspapers, magazines and the Nine television network.