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Apr 13th, 2014 at 1:42am
 
Anybody watch Australian story on ABC? It briefly touched upon Kerry Packer killing 3 boys.

http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/australian-story

Kill 3 kids, avoid paying taxes, get a state funeral from John Howard.

Here is a newspaper article about it

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The Packer witness who never made the news

Brambles heiress Mary Ash, 86, the woman at the centre of the mysterious accident in which a car being driven by Kerry Packer killed three people, has died.

It was the early hours of the morning and Packer, then an 18-year-old Geelong Grammar schoolboy, was driving back to Sydney from the snowfields with 36-year-old Mrs Ash and her two young sons, Stephen and and Nicholas.

According to Paul Barry's The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer, Packer, who was at the wheel of Mrs Ash's Rover 90, told police that the other car had crossed to the wrong side of the road.

Despite the fact that three boys in the other car were killed, Mrs Ash badly injured and Kerry put in hospital for eight weeks, the story never saw the light of day. Certainly Sir Frank Packer's organ The Telegraph never made mention of the incident but nor did rival newspapers of the day.

Mrs Ash was later to become embroiled in bitter stoush with Palm Beach locals, including Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward, over her Blueberry Ash development smack in the middle of Pacific Road.

The fight went all the way to the High Court, with Mrs Ash victorious. More recently the same site recently stirred another battle between locals and developers Susan and Garry Rothwell. The developers again coming up trumps.

Kerry Packer supported Mrs Ash for the rest of her life. Indeed, in 1995 the late tycoon volunteered to fund her $185,000 purchase of a flat in Potts Point apartment block Byron Hall.

Mrs Ash is survived by her two sons. A third son Fred, 52, has recently become a woman and now prefers to be called Alexandra.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/the-packer-witness-who-never-made-the-news/20...



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Funeral for Packer cost state $73,000


AXPAYERS spent more than $73,000 farewelling Kerry Packer, a man who famously paid as little tax as possible.

The media tycoon's state funeral in 2006 at the Sydney Opera House cost of $73,223.63 and was by far the most expensive such funeral of the past eight years, Federal Government figures show.

Celebrities from around the world, including the Hollywood actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, attended the funeral, where the Sydney Symphony played Waltzing Matilda.

The cost to the public is revealed in a written answer by the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, to a question from a Labor backbencher.

In 1991, when Mr Packer was facing a federal investigation into the print media industry, he was asked whether he tried to legally cut the amount of tax he paid.

"If anybody in this country doesn't minimise their tax, they want their heads read, because as a government, I can tell you, you're not spending it that well that we should be donating extra," he replied...

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/funeral-for-packer-cost-state-73000/2008/09/09/1220857547458.html
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Reply #1 - Apr 13th, 2014 at 2:10am
 
It is surprising that the accident never made the news, considering that 3 people were killed. Smacks of undue family influence. Angry
Whether that degree of restraint would be shown by media today I do not know. But it is possible. I know that back in the 1930s the scandal of the king and Mrs Simpson never made the British papers for a long while and in more recent times, quite a few of the Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton details were never mentioned by the American press. Why such restraint in the days of the internet I do not know, but it happened.

I am not sure it is fair to say Kerry Packer 'killed 3 boys'.
If what he claimed was true-if they came at him from the wrong side of the road-then they killed  themselves.

Young males tend to think they are bullet proof. They may not have been driving as carefully as they should have. And Kerry Packer as an 18 year old may not have had the experience to anticipate the actions of other drivers.

In fact if it is true that the 3 boys were on the wrong side of the road, you could as easily claim they were responsible not only for their own deaths but for injuring other people on the road.

The issues of taxes and a state funeral are unrelated really, nothing to do with the car accident. Personally I think he had enough money for funeral costs to come out of his estate, not sure why taxpayers should have put in a single cent.
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Reply #2 - Apr 13th, 2014 at 6:23am
 

The 1% will never pay their dues, either morally or monetary.
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Reply #4 - Apr 13th, 2014 at 4:43pm
 
sherri wrote on Apr 13th, 2014 at 2:10am:
  It is surprising that the accident never made the news, considering that 3 people were killed. Smacks of undue family influence. Angry
Whether that degree of restraint would be shown by media today I do not know. But it is possible. I know that back in the 1930s the scandal of the king and Mrs Simpson never made the British papers for a long while and in more recent times, quite a few of the Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton details were never mentioned by the American press. Why such restraint in the days of the internet I do not know, but it happened.

I am not sure it is fair to say Kerry Packer 'killed 3 boys'.
If what he claimed was true-if they came at him from the wrong side of the road-then they killed  themselves.

Young males tend to think they are bullet proof. They may not have been driving as carefully as they should have. And Kerry Packer as an 18 year old may not have had the experience to anticipate the actions of other drivers.

In fact if it is true that the 3 boys were on the wrong side of the road, you could as easily claim they were responsible not only for their own deaths but for injuring other people on the road.

The issues of taxes and a state funeral are unrelated really, nothing to do with the car accident. Personally I think he had enough money for funeral costs to come out of his estate, not sure why taxpayers should have put in a single cent.


I watched the show in question, and a newspaper page with story and pics was shown, so it certainly made the news somewhere. Probably only the local paper, and the story could have been killed-off afterwards before it made the 'big' papers.
But it was reported at least once, somewhere.

As to the accident itself, I have no personal knowledge or info on it, so will not comment on who may have been at fault.

I agree with your views on Packer's funeral not being the taxpayers' responsibility.
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Reply #5 - Apr 13th, 2014 at 9:45pm
 
I remember hearing the news in the 1990s that Kerry Packer payed $400 per annum personal tax.

No wonder our country is fukced.
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Reply #6 - Apr 14th, 2014 at 9:23am
 
Kat wrote on Apr 13th, 2014 at 4:43pm:
sherri wrote on Apr 13th, 2014 at 2:10am:
  It is surprising that the accident never made the news, considering that 3 people were killed. Smacks of undue family influence. Angry
Whether that degree of restraint would be shown by media today I do not know. But it is possible. I know that back in the 1930s the scandal of the king and Mrs Simpson never made the British papers for a long while and in more recent times, quite a few of the Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton details were never mentioned by the American press. Why such restraint in the days of the internet I do not know, but it happened.

I am not sure it is fair to say Kerry Packer 'killed 3 boys'.
If what he claimed was true-if they came at him from the wrong side of the road-then they killed  themselves.

Young males tend to think they are bullet proof. They may not have been driving as carefully as they should have. And Kerry Packer as an 18 year old may not have had the experience to anticipate the actions of other drivers.

In fact if it is true that the 3 boys were on the wrong side of the road, you could as easily claim they were responsible not only for their own deaths but for injuring other people on the road.

The issues of taxes and a state funeral are unrelated really, nothing to do with the car accident. Personally I think he had enough money for funeral costs to come out of his estate, not sure why taxpayers should have put in a single cent.


I watched the show in question, and a newspaper page with story and pics was shown, so it certainly made the news somewhere. Probably only the local paper, and the story could have been killed-off afterwards before it made the 'big' papers.
But it was reported at least once, somewhere.

As to the accident itself, I have no personal knowledge or info on it, so will not comment on who may have been at fault.

I agree with your views on Packer's funeral not being the taxpayers' responsibility.


I have no personal knowledge of the accident either. I was just saying that if Packer told the truth-if the car did come at him from the wrong side of the road-then it would not be fair to call Packer a killer as such.
Even if Packer's driving was at fault, the term killer is pretty strong , it is one I usually associate with more deliberate action.
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Reply #7 - Apr 14th, 2014 at 9:51am
 
Kat wrote on Apr 13th, 2014 at 4:43pm:
sherri wrote on Apr 13th, 2014 at 2:10am:
  It is surprising that the accident never made the news, considering that 3 people were killed. Smacks of undue family influence. Angry
Whether that degree of restraint would be shown by media today I do not know. But it is possible. I know that back in the 1930s the scandal of the king and Mrs Simpson never made the British papers for a long while and in more recent times, quite a few of the Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton details were never mentioned by the American press. Why such restraint in the days of the internet I do not know, but it happened.

I am not sure it is fair to say Kerry Packer 'killed 3 boys'.
If what he claimed was true-if they came at him from the wrong side of the road-then they killed  themselves.

Young males tend to think they are bullet proof. They may not have been driving as carefully as they should have. And Kerry Packer as an 18 year old may not have had the experience to anticipate the actions of other drivers.

In fact if it is true that the 3 boys were on the wrong side of the road, you could as easily claim they were responsible not only for their own deaths but for injuring other people on the road.

The issues of taxes and a state funeral are unrelated really, nothing to do with the car accident. Personally I think he had enough money for funeral costs to come out of his estate, not sure why taxpayers should have put in a single cent.


I watched the show in question, and a newspaper page with story and pics was shown, so it certainly made the news somewhere. Probably only the local paper, and the story could have been killed-off afterwards before it made the 'big' papers.
But it was reported at least once, somewhere.

As to the accident itself, I have no personal knowledge or info on it, so will not comment on who may have been at fault.

I agree with your views on Packer's funeral not being the taxpayers' responsibility.


In 1955, it wouldn't have to be 'killed off' to not make the national press. It was probably in a local paper, and there'd be no reason it would be bumped to any other news service. Fatal car accidents around the ski fields were hardly uncommon occurrences in those days.
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Reply #8 - Apr 14th, 2014 at 12:23pm
 
gizmo_2655 wrote on Apr 14th, 2014 at 9:51am:
Kat wrote on Apr 13th, 2014 at 4:43pm:
sherri wrote on Apr 13th, 2014 at 2:10am:
  It is surprising that the accident never made the news, considering that 3 people were killed. Smacks of undue family influence. Angry
Whether that degree of restraint would be shown by media today I do not know. But it is possible. I know that back in the 1930s the scandal of the king and Mrs Simpson never made the British papers for a long while and in more recent times, quite a few of the Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton details were never mentioned by the American press. Why such restraint in the days of the internet I do not know, but it happened.

I am not sure it is fair to say Kerry Packer 'killed 3 boys'.
If what he claimed was true-if they came at him from the wrong side of the road-then they killed  themselves.

Young males tend to think they are bullet proof. They may not have been driving as carefully as they should have. And Kerry Packer as an 18 year old may not have had the experience to anticipate the actions of other drivers.

In fact if it is true that the 3 boys were on the wrong side of the road, you could as easily claim they were responsible not only for their own deaths but for injuring other people on the road.

The issues of taxes and a state funeral are unrelated really, nothing to do with the car accident. Personally I think he had enough money for funeral costs to come out of his estate, not sure why taxpayers should have put in a single cent.



This is true.
I watched the show in question, and a newspaper page with story and pics was shown, so it certainly made the news somewhere. Probably only the local paper, and the story could have been killed-off afterwards before it made the 'big' papers.
But it was reported at least once, somewhere.

As to the accident itself, I have no personal knowledge or info on it, so will not comment on who may have been at fault.

I agree with your views on Packer's funeral not being the taxpayers' responsibility.


In 1955, it wouldn't have to be 'killed off' to not make the national press. It was probably in a local paper, and there'd be no reason it would be bumped to any other news service. Fatal car accidents around the ski fields were hardly uncommon occurrences in those days.


That's true...
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