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Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area (
/ˈɔːklənd/, AWK-lənd), in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with 1,377,200 residents, 31 percent of the country's population. Auckland has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world. In Māori Auckland's names are Tāmaki Makaurau, and the transliterated version of Auckland, Ākarana.
The 2011 Mercer Quality of Living Survey ranked Auckland 3rd equal place in the world on its list, while the Economist's World's Most Livable Cities index of 2011 ranked Auckland in 9th place. In 2010, Auckland was classified as a Beta World City in the World Cities Study Group’s inventory by Loughborough University.
Auckland lies between the Hauraki Gulf of the Pacific Ocean to the east, the low Hunua Ranges to the south-east, the Manukau Harbour to the south-west, and the Waitakere Ranges and smaller ranges to the west and north-west. The central part of the urban area occupies a narrow isthmus between the Manukau Harbour on the Tasman Sea and the Waitemata Harbour on the Pacific Ocean. It is one of the few cities in the world to have harbours on two separate major bodies of water.
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Christchurch
Christchurch ( /ˈkraɪstʃɜrtʃ/, KRYS-church; Māori: Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's third-largest urban area. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of Christchurch.
The city was named by the Canterbury Association, which settled the surrounding province of Canterbury. The name of Christchurch was agreed on at the first meeting of the association on 27 March 1848. It was suggested by John Robert Godley, who had attended Christ Church, Oxford. Some early writers called the town Christ Church, but it was recorded as Christchurch in the minutes of the management committee of the association. Christchurch became a city by Royal Charter on 31 July 1856, making it officially the oldest established city in New Zealand.
The river that flows through the centre of the city (its banks now largely forming an urban park) was named Avon at the request of the pioneering Deans brothers to commemorate the Scottish Avon, which rises in the Ayrshire hills near what was their grandfathers' farm and flows into the Clyde.
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Melbourne
Melbourne ([ˈmelbən, -bn̩, ˈmæl-],rhotically /ˈmɛlbərn/) is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2010, the greater geographical area had an approximate population of four million. Inhabitants of Melbourne are called Melburnians or Melbournians.
The metropolis is located on the large natural bay known as Port Phillip, with the city centre positioned at the estuary of the Yarra River (at the northernmost point of the bay). The metropolitan area then extends south from the city centre, along the eastern and western shorelines of Port Phillip, and expands into the hinterland. The city centre is situated in the municipality known as the City of Melbourne, and the metropolitan area consists of a further 30 municipalities.
Melbourne was founded in 1835 (47 years after the European settlement of Australia) by settlers from Launceston in Van Diemen's Land. It was named by governor Richard Bourke in 1837, in honour of the British Prime Minister of the day, William Lamb—the 2nd Viscount Melbourne. Melbourne was officially declared a city by Queen Victoria in 1847. In 1851, it became the capital city of the newly created colony of Victoria. During the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s, it was transformed into one of the world's largest and wealthiest cities. After the federation of Australia in 1901, it then served as the interim seat of government of the newly created nation of Australia until 1927.
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New South Wales
Coordinates: 32°0′S 147°0′E / 32°S 147°E / -32; 147
New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state of Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales encompasses the whole of the Australian Capital Territory. The state capital is Sydney, which is also the state's most populous city. As of June 2010[update], the estimated population was 7,238,819, which was 34.5% of the population of Australia, making it Australia's most populous state. Inhabitants of New South Wales are referred to as New South Welshmen.
The colony of New South Wales was founded in 1788 and originally comprised much of the Australian mainland, as well as Van Diemen's Land, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island, in addition to the area currently referred to as the state of New South Wales, which was formed during Federation in 1901. New Zealand briefly became a part of New South Wales when it was annexed by Britain in 1840. During the 19th century, large areas were successively separated to form the British colonies of Tasmania (established as a separate colony named Van Diemen's Land in 1825), South Australia (1836), Victoria (1851) and Queensland (1859).
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Offset Alpine fire
The Offset Alpine fire was a 1993 fire that destroyed a Sydney printing plant owned by the company Offset Alpine Printing Ltd. Investigations of the incident by the police and by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission spanned over ten years, amid suspicions that the printing plant was burnt down as part of an insurance fraud. It also gained attention because of the high profile of individuals involved.
In 1992 a company controlled by colourful businessman Rene Rivkin bought the Offset Alpine printing firm from media magnate and Australia's then richest man Kerry Packer for A$15.3 million and floated it on the stock exchange. On Christmas Eve, 1993, the firm's sole asset, the printing plant, was destroyed by fire. It had been insured at replacement value (A$53.2 million), more than three times its purchase price, and the share price skyrocketed. The fire was blamed on a staff barbecue, but suspicions of arson have persisted.
Known investors included:
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) commenced an investigation into the ownership of a 38% stake in the company via secret Swiss bank accounts. Rivkin denied any knowledge of the ownership of the stake at the time, but in 2003 ASIC discovered that he himself, in partnership with Richardson and Kennedy, had been using Swiss bank accounts to trade in Offset Alpine and other companies. Rivkin committed suicide in 2005, before the investigation was completed, after being jailed on an unrelated insider trading matter.
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Waikato Times
The Waikato Times is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Hamilton, New Zealand, with a circulation to the greater Waikato region.
The Waikato Times started out as the tri-weekly Waikato Times and Thames Valley Gazette, first published on 2 May 1872. The paper was first published in Ngaruawahia but moved to Hamilton in 1875.
The Times has a daily circulation of 41,000 copies.Allan Hawkey produces opinion cartoons for the newspaper.[citation needed]
The paper has an official Facebook page and a Twitter feed.
The Hamilton Press is a weekly newspaper, delivered on Wednesdays, in the city of Hamilton. It is free to Hamilton residents, and is delivered without prior arrangement to all Hamilton mailboxes.
Coordinates: 37°45′21.02″S 175°14′4.62″E / 37.7558389°S 175.2346167°E / -37.7558389; 175.2346167
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Wellington
Wellington ( /ˈwɛlɪŋtən/) is the capital city and second most populous urban area of New Zealand. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range. It is home to 393,400 residents.
The Wellington urban area is the major population centre of the southern North Island, and is the seat of the Wellington Region – which in addition to the urban area covers the Kapiti Coast and Wairarapa. The urban area includes four cities: Wellington, on the peninsula between Cook Strait and Wellington Harbour, contains the central business district and about half of Wellington's population; Porirua on Porirua Harbour to the north is notable for its large Māori and Pacific Island communities; Lower Hutt and Upper Hutt are largely suburban areas to the northeast, together known as the Hutt Valley. Wellington also holds the distinction of being the world's southernmost capital city.
In 2008, Wellington was classified as a Gamma World City in the World Cities Study Group’s inventory by Loughborough University. The 2010 Mercer Quality of Living Survey ranked Wellington 12th in the world. In 2011 Lonely Planet Best in Travel 2011 named Wellington as fourth in its Top 10 Cities to Visit in 2011, referring to the New Zealand capital as the "coolest little capital in the world".
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Western Australia
Coordinates: 26°0′S 121°0′E / 26°S 121°E / -26; 121
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state and the second-largest subnational entity in the world. The state has approximately 2.3 million inhabitants (around 10% of the national total), the majority of whom live in the south-west corner of the state.
The first European to visit Western Australia was the Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog, who visited the Western Australian coast in 1616. The British established a military outpost at King George Sound, near present-day Albany, in 1826, which was followed by the establishment of the Swan River Colony in 1829, including the townsite of the present-day capital, Perth.
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Andrew Forrest
John Andrew Henry Forrest (born 1961), better known as Andrew or by his nickname Twiggy, is a Western Australian mining magnate currently a non-executive chairman and previously the chief executive officer of Fortescue Metals Group (FMG). In 2010 he surpassed James Packer as the richest man in Australia.
Forrest was born in Perth, Western Australia, the youngest of three children of Donald and Judith Forrest. He is the great-great nephew of John Forrest, the first premier of Western Australia. His great-grandfather, David Forrest, was the manager and (with his brothers John and Alexander, and Septimus Burt) part-owner of Minderoo Station. Forrest's early years were spent as a jackaroo at Mindaroo Station, in the Pilbara. Minderoo was owned by the Forrest family until it was sold in 1998 by Donald due to relentless drought and debt, but was bought back by Andrew in 2009.
Forrest was educated at Onslow Primary School, before moving back to Perth to attend Christ Church Grammar School and then Hale School. As a child, he suffered a stutter problem, which is how he came to develop a relationship with Ian Black, whose father Scotty Black, an Aboriginal, became Forrest's mentor. Forrest then attended the University of Western Australia where he studied a double major in economics and politics.
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Arvi Parbo
Sir Arvi Hillar Parbo AC (born 10 February 1926, Tallinn, Estonia) is a business executive who was concurrently chairman of three of Australia's largest companies.
Along with thousands of his Estonian countrymen, Parbo fled from his homeland ahead of the Soviet occupation in 1944, ending up in a refugee camp (DP camp) in Germany. After attending the Clausthal Mining Academy in Germany from 1946 to 1948 he migrated to Australia in 1949. He graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1955.
Parbo joined Western Mining Corporation in 1956 and over the next 12 years held the positions of Underground Surveyor, Underground Manager, Technical Assistant to the Managing Director, and Deputy General Superintendent. He was appointed General Manager in 1968 and became a Director in 1970. He was appointed Deputy Managing Director in 1971 and became Managing Director in the same year. In 1974, Parbo was appointed Chairman and Managing Director of Western Mining Corporation, subsequently renamed WMC Limited.
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Australians
Australian people, or simply Australians, are the citizens of Australia. Australia is a multi-ethnic nation, and therefore the term "Australian" is not a racial identifier. Aside from the Indigenous Australian population, nearly all Australians or their ancestors immigrated within the past 230 years. Colloquial names used to refer to Australians include Aussies, and Antipodeans.
The mainstream Australian culture (occasionally defined as the Anglo-Celtic culture), is a Western culture largely derived from the traditions of Western European migrants beginning with the early settlers from England, Scotland, and Ireland. The populations of Sydney, Melbourne and the other major cities are different from the demographics of rural Australia as a result of the differing migration patterns.
Australian people can refer to:
The earliest accepted timeline for the first arrivals of indigenous Australians to the continent of Australia places this human migration to at least 40,000 years ago most probably from the islands of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
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Brad Cooper
Bradford ("Brad") Paul Cooper (born 19 July 1954 in Singapore) was an Australian freestyle and backstroke swimmer of the 1970s, who won a gold medal in the 400 m freestyle at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He is the only Australian to have won an Olympic gold medal after finishing second, after the International Olympic Committee disqualified American swimmer Rick DeMont for taking a banned asthma drug.
The second of three brothers, Cooper moved with his family to Rockhampton, Queensland at the age of three. His father was the proprietor of a water-ski centre, and arranged for him to have swimming lessons at the age of six. Cooper had a disrupted childhood education, as his family moved between Queensland and New South Wales to change swimming coaches, attending no less than five different primary schools and nine different high schools in the process. Among his many coaches in his early years was John Konrads, himself a prolific world-record breaking swimmer and Olympic gold medallist. In 1969, at the national junior championships, Cooper came second in both the 100 m and 200 m backstroke.
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Canadians
Canadians (singular Canadian) are the people who are identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be genetic, residential, legal, historical, cultural or ethnic. For most Canadians, several (frequently all) of those types of connections exist and are the source(s) of them being considered Canadians.
Aside from the Aboriginal peoples, who according to the 2006 Canadian Census numbered 1,172,790, 3.8% of the country's total population, the majority of the population is made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. After the initial period of French and then British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-aboriginal peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continues today. Elements of Aboriginal, French, British and more recent immigrant customs, languages and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by that of its linguistic, geographic and economic neighbour, the United States.
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Christopher Skase
Christopher Charles Skase (18 September 1948 – 5 August 2001) was an Australian businessman who later became one of his country's most wanted fugitives, after his business empire crashed spectacularly and he fled to Majorca in Spain.
Skase was born into a wealthy Melbourne family. His father was Charles Skase, 1948 winner of the Melbourne Herald-Sun Aria Competition, and prominent radio 3DB on-air personality, including his role as star of the live-to-air radio programme, The Happy Gang in the 1950s.
He was educated at Malvern and Caulfield Grammar Schools.
He began his career as a stockbroker, but soon became a finance journalist instead, working at The Sun News-Pictorial. In 1975 he purchased Qintex, a small Tasmanian company.
Skase slowly developed Qintex and, over several years, turned it into one of Australia's larger corporations. By the late 1980s, the Qintex group was worth AU$1.5 billion. Skase owned five resorts as well as interests in the Seven Network television station and the Brisbane Bears VFL club. On the eve of the 1990 economic recession, his two "Mirage" resorts in Port Douglas, Queensland were among the largest in the country and Skase played a key role in putting the formerly small town on the international tourist map.
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Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC, OC, KCSG (born August 25, 1944) is a Canadian-born member of the British House of Lords, and a historian, columnist and publisher, who was for a time the third largest newspaper magnate in the world. Lord Black controlled Hollinger International, Inc. Through affiliates, the company published major newspapers including The Daily Telegraph (UK), Chicago Sun Times (U.S.), Jerusalem Post (Israel), National Post (Canada), and hundreds of community newspapers in North America.
Black is also an author and historian, having written two memoirs (A Life in Progress and A Matter of Principle) and biographies of Maurice Duplessis, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Richard Nixon. He writes a regular column for Canada’s National Post and contributes to The American Spectator, National Review Online, The Huffington Post and The Catholic Herald.
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David Kirk
David Edward Kirk, MBE, (born 5 October 1960 in Wellington; grew up in Palmerston North ), is a former New Zealand rugby union player. He is best known for having been the captain of the All Blacks when they won the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987.
He was awarded an MBE in 1987 for services to Rugby.
Kirk was educated at Russell Street School, Wanganui Collegiate School and Selwyn College at the University of Otago, where he graduated with a medical degree MBChB.
Kirk played provincial rugby for Otago and Auckland, and first toured with the All Blacks in 1983.
He stood out from his fellow players as "urbane, articulate and thoughtful"[2], and when the planned 1986 All Black tour to South Africa was cancelled David and John Kirwan were the only two players to refuse to join the rebel "Cavaliers" team on moral grounds—he felt that it would give comfort to the apartheid regime. With the rebels banned from playing in the next two All Black test he captained the so-called "Baby Blacks". On the return of the rebels however, his position was uncomfortable and he was lucky to retain his place in the squad. Despite this, when original captain Andy Dalton had to withdraw with an injury, Kirk was made captain—and led New Zealand to victory over France in the 1987 Rugby World Cup Final.
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Doug Flynn
Robert Douglas Flynn Jr. (born April 18, 1951 in Albany, New York) is a former Major League Baseball infielder from 1975-1985. He is best remembered for being one of the players the New York Mets acquired in the infamous "Midnight Massacre."
Flynn grew up in Lexington, Kentucky and graduated from Bryan Station High School. He signed as an amateur free agent with the Cincinnati Reds in 1971, and was part of the "Big Red Machine" team that won the 1975 and 1976 World Series. However, his only post season appearance came as a defensive replacement in the 1976 National League Championship Series against the Philadelphia Phillies.
Tom Seaver was in a contract dispute with New York Mets chairman M. Donald Grant when on Wednesday, June 15, 1977 Grant traded Seaver to the Cincinnati Reds for Pat Zachry, Steve Henderson, Dan Norman and Flynn.Dave Kingman was also traded to the San Diego Padres for pitcher Paul Siebert and Bobby Valentine. Somewhat more quietly that day, they also acquired Joel Youngblood from the St. Louis Cardinals for Mike Phillips.
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Frank Lowy
Frank Lowy, AC (born 22 October 1930 in Fiľakovo (Hungarian: Fülek), Czechoslovakia) is an Australian-Israeli businessman. He is a co-founder of the Westfield Group, operator of over 100 shopping centres in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Great Britain. In 2010, Lowy was ranked #1 on the BRW Rich 200 list.
Lowy was born in Czechoslovakia, and lived in Budapest, Hungary during World War II. He made his way to France in 1946, where he left on the ship Yagur, but was caught en route to British Mandate of Palestine by the British and deported to the detention camp in Cyprus. After a few months, Lowy was allowed into Palestine and was brought to the Atlit detainee camp. Lowy then moved to Sde Ya'akov, a small yeshiva school near Qiryat Tivon, and eventually joined the Haganah and then the Golani Brigade, fighting during the Arab–Israeli War in the Galilee and in Gaza.
In 1952, Lowy left Israel and joined his family, who had left Europe for Australia and started a business delivering small goods. In 1953, he met fellow Hungarian immigrant John Saunders. The pair became business partners, eventually creating Westfield Development Corporation through the development of a shopping centre at Blacktown in Sydney's western suburbs. Over the next 30 years, Lowy and Saunders developed shopping centres across Australia and the United States (from 1977); changing the name of the company to the Westfield Group and listing the company on the Australian Stock Exchange in 1960. Saunders sold his interests and left the company in 1987; meanwhile Lowy took the company to New Zealand (in the 1990s) and the United Kingdom (in the 2000s).
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Frank Packer
Sir Douglas Frank Hewson Packer, KBE (3 December 1906 – 1 May 1974), was an Australian media proprietor who controlled Australian Consolidated Press and the Nine Network.
Frank Packer was born in Kings Cross, in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, to Ethel Maude Packer (née Hewson) (1878–1947) and Robert Clyde Packer (1879–1934), who started the family's association with the media as a journalist in New South Wales. His father, R.C. Packer, became editor of The Sunday Times and was a founder of Smith's Weekly and The Daily Guardian, which was published by Smith's Newspaper Ltd.
He attended Wahroonga Grammar School and Sydney Church of England Grammar School; however he did not sit for the Intermediate Certificate. In 1923, Packer became a cadet journalist on his father's paper, The Daily Guardian. Four years later he was a director of the company. In 1933, Packer started the Australian Women's Weekly and then transformed The Daily Telegraph into one of Australia's leading newspapers.
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Fred Hilmer
Professor Frederick George Hilmer AO (born 2 February 1945) is an Australian academic and business figure.
Professor Hilmer obtained from the University of Sydney the degree of Bachelor of Laws with Honours Class II in April 1966.
Professor Hilmer is presently the President and eighth Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales, an appointment he began in June 2006. He has also served as a director and Deputy-Chairman of the Westfield Group since 1991.
Professor Hilmer was previously the Chief Executive Officer of John Fairfax Holdings Limited from 1998 - 2005. Before joining Fairfax he was Dean and Director of the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) at the University of New South Wales from 1989 until 1998. He holds a degree in law from the University of Sydney, an LLM from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of Finance where he was appointed a Joseph Wharton Fellow.
He was a member of the Commonwealth Higher Education Council and Chairman of the Business Council of Australia's Employee Relations Study Group. In 1992 and 1993 he chaired the National Competition Policy Review Committee, which led to the introduction of National Competition Policy in 1995.
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Gail Kelly
Gail Kelly (née: Currer) (born 25 April 1956) is a South African-born Australian businesswoman. She is the current chief executive officer (CEO) of Westpac, one of Australia's big four banks. In 2002, she became the first female CEO of a major Australian bank or top 15 company and, as of 2005, was the highest paid woman in an Australian corporation. She assumed the position of CEO at Westpac in 2008.
Gail Currer was born in Pretoria, South Africa. Currer attended the University of Cape Town where she undertook an arts degree majoring in history and Latin as well as a Diploma in Education. She married Allan Kelly, in December 1977.
The couple moved to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) where she taught Latin at Falcon College while he served in the Rhodesian army. The couple returned to South Africa where Allan Kelly studied medicine at the University of the Witswatersrand and Gail Kelly taught at a government high school.
Kelly started work at the Nedcor Bank in 1980 as a teller but was fast-tracked into an accelerated training program. She started an MBA in 1986 while pregnant with her oldest daughter and graduated with distinction in 1987. In 1990, she became head of human resources at Nedcor (after having given birth to triplets five months earlier). From early 1992 to 1997 she held various other General Manager positions at Nedcor, including cards and personal banking.
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Gina Rinehart
Georgina "Gina" Hope Rinehart (born 9 February 1954) is an Australian businesswoman in the mining industry. She is the heiress of Hancock Prospecting and the daughter of the late mining magnate Lang Hancock and Hope Margaret Nicholas. In the 2010s, Rinehart diversified her business interests to include media organisations, becoming the largest shareholder in Fairfax Media and acquiring a significant stake in Ten Network Holdings. During 2011, both Forbes Asia and Business Review Weekly reported that Rinehart was Australia's wealthiest person. In May 2012 BRW named her as the world's richest woman, having surpassed Christy Walton.
Three of Rinehart's children and beneficiaries, Hope Rinehart Welker, John Hancock and Bianca Rinehart, have commenced[when?] legal action in the New South Wales Supreme Court over Rinehart's (as sole trustee) alleged delay of the vesting date of the Hope Margaret Hancock Trust.
Rinehart was born at Perth, Western Australia, the daughter of Hope Margaret Nicholas and Lang Hancock. An only child, Rinehart lived with her parents at Nunyerry, 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of Wittenoom, until she was four, later boarding at St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls in Perth. She commenced studying economics at The University of Sydney and later worked for her father, gaining an extensive knowledge of the Pilbara iron-ore industry.
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Greg Hywood
Greg Hywood (b 1955) is a Walkley award-winning Australian journalist and editor and the CEO of Fairfax Media, one of Australia's largest media organisations.
Gregory Hywood graduated with an economics degree from Monash University in Victoria in 1975, and was working as an economist for automotive manufacturer Holden when he was hired as a cadet journalist by then-editor of the Melbourne Bureau of the Fairfax-owned national business newspaper Australian Financial Review, Max Walsh. Hywood reported on business and both domestic and foreign politics for the AFR for nearly 17 years, winning a Walkley Award in 1980 for a story he broke about the internal operations of Holden.
In the early 1990s, Hywood was made editor of the Australian Financial Review and then promoted to publisher and editor-in-chief of the paper. He was then moved within the Fairfax organisation to become publisher and editor-in-chief of the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun Herald, and then publisher and editor-in-chief of The Age.
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Harry Triguboff
Harry Oscar Triguboff AO (born 3 March 1933) is an Australian property developer and strong proponent of population growth in Australia to a hundred million. Also known as "High-Rise Harry"
He was born in Dalian (Darien at the time), China on 3 March 1933, the son of Russian Jews who fled to northeastern China after the rise of Lenin. He spent his early childhood in the White Russian Jewish community in Tianjin (then spelled Tientsin, just nearby Beijing and also the third largest city now in China) before coming to Australia in 1947 to be educated at the Scots College in Sydney. He later graduated with a degree in textiles from the University of Leeds in England before working in textile businesses in Israel and South Africa.
He returned to Australia in 1960 and became an Australian citizen in 1961. He did a variety of odd jobs including driving a taxi and owning a milk round in Chatswood. He tried selling real estate and worked as an assistant to a lecturer at university but still wasn't successful at either. He then bought some land in Roseville and hired a builder to begin building his house. The builder turned out to be awful, so Triguboff threw him out and finished the job himself, learning from his mistakes.
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James Packer
James Douglas Packer (born 8 September 1967 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian businessman.
Packer is the son of the late media mogul, Kerry Packer and grandson of Frank Packer. He inherited the family company, Consolidated Press Holdings Limited, which controls investments in Crown Limited, Consolidated Media Holdings and other companies. He is the former Executive Chairman of Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL), which owned some stations of the Australian commercial television network Nine. His indirect shareholding in Nine through Consolidated Media Holdings was 0.074 per cent as at December 2008.[dead link]
Packer was educated at Cranbrook School in Bellevue Hill, Sydney. After obtaining the Higher School Certificate (HSC) at Cranbrook, Kerry decided it was time to toughen his son up to prepare him for the world of business. He was sent to his father's extensive Newcastle Waters cattle station in the Barkly Tableland of the Northern Territory, where he worked as a jackeroo. His father dismissed the idea of sending young James to university by saying "Why would he want to go there? To learn how to smoke marijuana?"
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Janet Holmes à Court
Janet Holmes à Court, AC, HFAIB (born Janet Lee Ranford on 29 November 1943 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian businesswoman, and one of Australia's wealthiest women. She is the Chairman of one of Australia's largest private companies, Heytesbury Pty Ltd, having turned around its fortunes after the death of her husband Robert Holmes à Court in 1990. She retained full ownership of the Heytesbury Group of companies until 2008 when her son, Paul Holmes à Court, assumed ownership, while she remained Chairman.
She attended the University of Western Australia, majoring in organic chemistry. After graduation, she worked as a science teacher before marrying Holmes à Court in 1966 and having four children with him.
She currently lives in Perth. As her children left home, she developed interests in medical research, the arts and various charitable organizations.
After the death of her husband, she took over management of Heytesbury Pty Ltd, which was considerably in debt, rescuing and expanding it. The company operates cattle stations in remote Western Australia and has interests in vineyards, wine-making and engineering contracting.
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Jodee Rich
John David "Jodee" Rich (born 1960) is an Australian businessman, who founded Imagineering Ltd, a microcomputer software and hardware distributor, One.Tel Ltd, an Australian based telecommunications company, and PeopleBrowsr, a data mining, analytics and brand engagement service provider.
Rich is an active speaker at events around the world including industry conferences, summits and corporate events.
During their travels from Germany to London and finally New York in the 1930s and 1940s, the Richheimer family anglicised their name to "Rich". In 1963, Jodee Rich's father, Steven, came to Australia to manage the local arm of the family business, Hunter Douglas.
Rich wrote his first program in 1972, on punch cards at the age of 12. He was educated at the elite Cranbrook School in Bellevue Hill, Sydney, with classmate Rodney Adler. During his Cranbrook days, Rich started his first entrepreneurial venture, a business renting fish tanks.
In 1980 he developed a commodity analysis system on 64k Apple II, later sold to investment banks.
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John Fairfax
John Fairfax (24 October 1804 – 16 June 1877), English-born journalist, is notable for the incorporation of the major newspapers of modern day Australia.
Fairfax was born in Barford, Warwickshire, the second son of William Fairfax and his wife, Elizabeth née Jesson. The Fairfax family for many years were lords of the manor of Barford, but estates had been lost and William Fairfax at the time of John's birth was in the building and furnishing trade. In 1817 John Fairfax was apprenticed to William Perry, a bookseller and printer in Warwick, and in 1825 went to London where he worked as a compositor in a general printing office and on the Morning Chronicle. A year or two later he established himself at Leamington Hastings as a printer, bookseller and stationer. There, on 31 July 1827, he married Sarah Reading, daughter of James and Sarah Reading. He became the printer of the Leamington Spa Courier, and in 1835 he purchased an interest in another paper The Leamington Chronicle and Warwickshire Reporter. He had a book binding business in Leamington. At this time Leamington was one of the leading spa towns in the UK.
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John Laws
Richard John Sinclair "John" Laws, CBE (born 8 August 1935), an Australian radio presenter, sometimes known as Lawsie, was from the 1970s until his retirement in 2007, the host of a hugely successful morning radio program, which mixed music with interviews, opinion, live advertising readings and listener talkback. His distinctive voice earned him the nickname the Golden Tonsils.
Despite retiring in 2007, Laws' management confirmed in November 2010 that he would be returning to radio in February 2011, as the host of a morning programme on 2SM and the Super Radio Network.
Laws' radio show was syndicated throughout Australia for many years and was consistently one of the most popular and influential programs in the Australian media. Laws is also a familiar voice for generations of Australians through his large and varied body of work as a voice-over artist for commercials, and as a celebrity endorser of commercial products, notably Valvoline motor oil, with his popular catchphrase "Valvoline, you know what I mean" and Oral-B toothbrushes (the slogan "Oral-B, the toothbrush more dentists use.")
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Kerry Packer
Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer, AC (17 December 1937 – 26 December 2005) was an Australian media tycoon. The son of Sir Frank Packer and Gretel Bullmore, the Packer family company owned controlling interest in both the Nine television network and leading Australian publishing company Australian Consolidated Press, which were later merged to form Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL).
Packer was known for his abrasive personality, his wealth, his lavish gambling habits, his expansive business empire and his clashes with the Australian Taxation Office and the Costigan Royal Commission.
At the time of his death, Packer was the richest and one of the most influential men in Australia. In 2004, Business Review Weekly magazine estimated Packer's net worth at A$6.5 billion.
Packer, through his family company Consolidated Press Holdings, was the major shareholder with a 37% holding in Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL). Until Packer's death PBL owned the Nine television network, and Australian Consolidated Press which produces many of Australia's top-selling magazines. He was involved in a number of other gambling and tourism ventures, notably Crown Casino in Melbourne. The Nine Network and Australian Consolidated Press businesses have since been divested to PBL Media.
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Kerry Stokes
Kerry Matthew Stokes AC (born 13 September 1940) is an Australian businessman. He holds business interests in a diverse range of industries including electronic and print media, property, mining, and construction equipment. He is most widely known as the chairman of the Seven Network, one of the largest broadcasting corporations in Australia. He was awarded Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AC) in recognition of his contributions to Australian business. He was ranked 785th on the Forbes list of billionaires in 2008.
Kerry Stokes was born John Patrick Alford on 13 September 1940 in Melbourne, and was adopted out to Matthew and Irene Stokes. In June 2000, Stokes told the ABC, "My background was very difficult, very hard and I wouldn't wish that on anybody. I had lots of different occupations and obviously lots of different experiences. I had some time on the street, and sometimes, work was very difficult. Australia, in that period of time, wasn't a place where you could actually easily go and get a job, it was difficult, and we went where there was work available".
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Margaret Jackson
Margaret Jackson, AC (born 17 March 1953) is an Australian corporate executive.
Jackson was born in Warragul, Victoria, and studied at Warragul High School. She graduated with a Bachelor of Economics degree from Monash University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Melbourne. She is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.
Jackson was the Chairman of Qantas from 2000 to 2007 and was the first woman to become chairman of a top-50 publicly-listed company in Australia. She has been a director of Qantas since 1992, and her other directorships include the ANZ since 1994 and Billabong.
Jackson is a former partner of accounting firm KPMG and has also worked for accounting firms BDO Nelson Parkhill and Pricewaterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers).
Jackson is married to Roger Donazzan and they have two children - Matthew, 24, and Lauren Donazzan, 20.[citation needed] She has a brother, Professor Graeme Jackson who is founder and director of the Brain Research Institute
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Peter Abeles
Sir Peter Emil Herbert Abeles, AC (25 April 1924 – 25 June 1999) was an Australian transportation magnate. A refugee from Hungary, he became one of the most powerful businessmen in Australia, and was knighted in 1972.
Abeles was born in Vienna, in Austria, but grew up in Budapest. When Germany invaded Hungary in 1944, Abeles, who was Jewish, was sent to a Nazi work camp. In 1949 he fled the devastation left by World War II, and moved to Australia. After doing small business by selling books and clothing, he quickly befriended George Rockey, a fellow Hungarian immigrant. The pair bought two trucks, which they named "Samson" and "Delilah", and set up a transport company, "Alltrans". In 1967, Alltrans merged with Thomas Nationwide Transport, and the combined companies became TNT Ltd.. Under Abeles' guidance as managing director, TNT quickly expanded, and by the 1980s had established a presence in 180 countries and was termed "the second biggest transport empire in the world, operating by road, rail, sea and air".
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Reg Ansett
Sir Reginald Myles "Reg" Ansett KBE (13 February 1909 – 23 December 1981) was an Australian businessman and aviator; best known for founding Ansett Transport Industries Limited, which owned one of Australia's two leading domestic airlines between 1957 and 2001. He also established a number of other business enterprises including Ansett Pioneer coachlines, Ansett Freight Express, Ansair coachbuilders, Gateway Hotels, Diner's Club Australia, Biro Bic Australia and the ATV-0 television station in Melbourne and TVQ-0 in Brisbane which later became part of Network Ten. ATI also bought out Avis Rent-a-Car and had a 50 per cent interest in Associated Securities Limited (ASL). In late 1979, mainly due to the collapse of ASL, Ansett lost control of the company to Sir Peter Abeles of TNT and Rupert Murdoch of News Corporation who became joint managing directors.
Qantas has named one of their Airbus A380s after Ansett in recognition of his contribution to the aviation industry.
Reginald Myles Ansett was born at Inglewood, Victoria, on 13 February 1909. His father owned a garage before World War I when he enlisted in the AIF. After the war, Ansett's father established a knitting factory in Camberwell and Ansett gained qualifications as a knitting-machine mechanic at Swinburne Technical College. He was an enthusiastic private pilot, having obtained his licence in 1926 (No. 419).
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Rene Rivkin
Rene Rivkin (6 June 1944 – 1 May 2005) was an Australian entrepreneur, investor, investment adviser, and stockbroker. He was a well-known stockbroker in Australia for many years until his death in 2005.
Rene Walter Rivkin was born 6 June 1944 in Shanghai, China to Russian-Jewish parents in what was then Japanese-occupied China. His father, Walter, was a Georgian-born trader who had fled to China in the 1920s to escape the Bolsheviks. The elder Rivkin had also once been a champion boxer in Shanghai. The family emigrated to Australia in 1951. Rivkin attended the selective Sydney Boys High School in Moore Park. In accordance with his father's wishes, he went on to study law at the University of Sydney. He went on to become the youngest ever member of the Sydney Stock Exchange.
Rene Rivkin was a well-known stockbroker and entrepreneur, whose career spanned over 30 years. In December 1985, Rene Rivkin was voted Business Review Weekly magazine's Stockbroker of the Year. Later, Rivkin gained recognition with his publication of the Rivkin Report, in which he would advise what stocks to buy and sell, and provide market analysis. He became famous in the Australian media for his entrepreneurial flair and wealth. He was associated with all of the leading political, media and business figures in Australia between 1982-1999 and became a household name.
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Rodney Adler
Rodney Stephen Adler (born 19 August 1959) is an Australian businessman whose family founded the FAI Insurances group, of which he became Chief Executive in 1989, and which was at one stage Australia’s third largest general insurer. Adler became a director of HIH Insurance (HIH) after the acquisition of that company and resigned in January 2001, two months before HIH collapsed. He was jailed in 2005 for his conduct related to the collapse of HIH, where Adler obtained A$2 million from HIH by false or misleading statements and being dishonest as a director.
Adler is the son of Hungarian immigrant, Larry Adler, who founded the insurance company FAI in 1960.[citation needed] He was educated at Cranbrook School, and later obtained degrees of Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales and Master of Economics from Macquarie University and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and Adjunct Professor at UTS.
He is married to Lyndi and has four children: Jason, Romi, Natalie (Tali) and Charlotte.[dead link]
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Roger Corbett
Roger Campbell Corbett AO (born 1942) is an Australian businessman. From January 1999 to September 2006, Corbett served as CEO of Woolworths Limited, a large retailing conglomerate. He is now a director of Wal-Mart, the Reserve Bank of Australia and Fairfax Media. He became chairman of Fairfax at the company's 2009 Annual General Meeting. Corbett was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours, for service to the retail industry, particularly as a contributor to the development of industry policy and standards, and to the community. In 2008, he was promoted to an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to business, particularly through leadership and executive roles in the retail sector and a range of allied organisations, and to the community.
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Rupert Murdoch
Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian American media mogul. Murdoch became managing director of Australia's News Limited, inherited from his father, in 1952. He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of global media holding company the News Corporation, the world's second-largest media conglomerate.
In the 1950s and '60s, he acquired various newspapers in Australia and New Zealand, before expanding into the United Kingdom in 1969, taking over the News of the World followed closely by The Sun. He moved to New York in 1974 to expand into the US market and became a naturalised US citizen in 1985. In 1981, he bought The Times, his first British broadsheet.
In 1986, keen to adopt newer electronic publishing technologies, he consolidated his UK printing operations in Wapping, causing bitter industrial disputes. His News Corporation acquired Twentieth Century Fox (1985), HarperCollins (1989) and The Wall Street Journal (2007). He formed BSkyB in 1990 and during the 1990s expanded into Asian networks and South American television. By 2000 Murdoch's News Corporation owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries with a net worth of over $5 billion.
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Sidney Myer
Sidney Baevski Myer (born Simcha Myer Baevski (Russian: Симха Майер Баевский); 8 February 1878 – 5 September 1934) was a Jewish-Australian businessman and philanthropist, best known for creating Myer, Australia's largest chain of department stores.
Myer was born in Krychaw (Krichev), Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire (within the Pale of Settlement) now Belarus, the youngest of eleven children born to Ezekiel Baevski, Hebrew scholar, and his wife, Koona Dubrusha, née Shur.
He was educated at the Jewish Elementary School in Krichev, and later managed his mother's drapery business.
He migrated to Melbourne in August 1899 with very little money and little knowledge of English to join his elder brother, Elcon Myer (1875-1938) who had left Russia two years earlier.
Sidney and Elcon Myer both worked in Slutzkin's underclothing business in Flinders Lane, Melbourne; later they established a small drapery shop in Bendigo. This not proving very successful, Sidney Myer took his goods, stockings, laces, etc., from door to door, and, in spite of knowing little English, sold his wares. He then bought a cart and travelled through country towns. The business was later moved to Pall Mall, Bendigo, where it prospered, other shops were added, and later the Bendigo business of Craig Williamson and Thomas was bought.
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Solomon Trujillo
Solomon Dennis "Sol" Trujillo (born November 17, 1951) is an American businessman. He was the chief executive officer of Telstra, Australia's largest telecommunications company. He was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, to Mexican immigrants.
Trujillo has a Bachelor of Business degree (BBus) and an MBA from the University of Wyoming. He began his business career in 1975 as a business forecaster for Mountain Bell. He worked as President, chairman and CEO of US WEST Communications, Inc. from 1995 to 2000. In November 2000, he became chairman and CEO of Graviton, remaining until that startup closed. In 2003, he became CEO of Orange SA, a company on which he had been a board member since 2001. He held that position until March 2004. He was appointed Telstra's chief executive officer on July 1, 2005.
During the period of Trujillo's tenure, Telstra's share price underperformed the market by around twenty percent, losing over $25 billion in value while customer complaints rose 300 percent. Major factors in the company's share price decline were the global financial crisis of 2008–2009 and being disqualified for submitting a non-compliant bid to the National Broadband Network tender issued by the Rudd Government.
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Warwick Fairfax
Warwick Fairfax (born December 1960) is an Australian businessman who had tried unsuccessfully to privatise his family's media company Fairfax Media in 1987. He was the son of Warwick Oswald Fairfax and his third wife, Mary, Lady Fairfax. Educated at Oxford and Harvard, he successfully took over the company but on 10 December 1990 the company collapsed and a receiver was appointed. The controversial method of financing and purchasing holdings of the established company from family members and the consequential problems arising in the media group in later years are still cited today in Australian media history.
Former Australian opposition leader and former investment banker Malcolm Turnbull first came to prominence by representing the interests of a number of American holders of bonds issued by Fairfax at this time. at this time, Fairfax was in competition with competitors Alan Bond, Kerry Packer and Rupert Murdoch for increased ownership of print titles.
Fairfax is perhaps best known for its flagship titles The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Ziggy Switkowski
Dr Zygmunt "Ziggy" Edward Switkowski (born 1948, Germany) is a Polish Australian businessman and nuclear physicist.
He is most known as the former Chief Executive Officer of Australia's largest telecommunications company Telstra, and for overseeing major aspects of the implementation and planning of its full privatisation through tranche sales (known as the 'T1', 'T2' and 'T3' sales).
In 2011, he was appointed the Chancellor of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University).
Switkowski was born in Germany in 1948 to Polish parents. His family migrated to Australia when he was one year old. He was raised in Melbourne, and attended St Bernard's College in Essendon – a suburb of Melbourne. He then studied at the University of Melbourne, where he earned a Bachelor of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy in nuclear physics, and went on to complete six years of postdoctoral research. In 1993, he graduated from the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard Business School.
Before his tenure at Telstra, Switkowski served as Chief Executive Officer of the telecommunications company Optus and the photographic equipment company Kodak (Australasia). He also served as Chairman and Managing Director of Kodak (Australasia) from 1992–1996. During this time, he also served as a non-executive director of the multinational packaging company Amcor from 1995–1999.
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Fairfax Media reveals major structure; 1900 jobs dumped, SMH and The Age to go tabloid.
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Business editor Peter Ryan speaks on ABC News 24 about the restructure announced by Fairfax Media on 18 June 2012.
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Business editor Peter Ryan speaks on ABC News 24 about the restructure announced by Fairfax Media on 18 June 2012.
Gina Rinehart and Fairfax Media - WAINGAFAT Wednesday
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What Am I Not Giving A Fuck About Today? The idea mining billionaire Gina Rinehart will buy up the (at least slightly) progressive media company Fairfax and ...
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What Am I Not Giving A Fuck About Today? The idea mining billionaire Gina Rinehart will buy up the (at least slightly) progressive media company Fairfax and ...
- published: 20 Jun 2012
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Review of Fairfax Media 2012
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Reviewing Fairfax Media achievement in 2012.
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Reviewing Fairfax Media achievement in 2012.
- published: 20 Dec 2012
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- author: Mahendra Singh
Greg Hywood on Fairfax culture and values
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Fairfax Media chief executive Greg Hywood has sent staff a video in which he explains the company's culture and values. "We have to stop any dysfunctional in...
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Fairfax Media chief executive Greg Hywood has sent staff a video in which he explains the company's culture and values. "We have to stop any dysfunctional in...
- published: 05 Jun 2012
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- author: PANPAEditor
Ric Milne's Tooths KB Larger 1930s Drinks Tray - Fairfax Media Aust Overnight Fri 010313
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Ric Milne's Tooths KB Larger 1930s Drinks Tray - Fairfax Media Australia Overnight - Antiques and Collectibles - Friday 1st March 2013.
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Ric Milne's Tooths KB Larger 1930s Drinks Tray - Fairfax Media Australia Overnight - Antiques and Collectibles - Friday 1st March 2013.
- published: 28 Feb 2013
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Fairfax Media - AirLink™
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Introducing AirLink™, a ground-breaking technology developed by Fairfax Media that provides readers and advertisers with a dramatically enhanced experience a...
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Introducing AirLink™, a ground-breaking technology developed by Fairfax Media that provides readers and advertisers with a dramatically enhanced experience a...
- published: 20 Aug 2012
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- author: FairfaxDigital
Jack Matthews Fairfax Media CEO, Metro Division
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Jack Matthews Fairfax Media CEO - Metro Division speaks to mUmBRELLA's Tim Burrowes. To find out more visit: http://mumbrella.com.au/weekday-editions-of-smh-...
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Jack Matthews Fairfax Media CEO - Metro Division speaks to mUmBRELLA's Tim Burrowes. To find out more visit: http://mumbrella.com.au/weekday-editions-of-smh-...
- published: 14 Jun 2011
- views: 825
- author: TheMumboReport
Fairfax Media fx launch video
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Launch video for Fairfax Metro Media's fx team, which was created to offer integrated, leading-edge strategic and creative services to agencies and clients. ...
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Launch video for Fairfax Metro Media's fx team, which was created to offer integrated, leading-edge strategic and creative services to agencies and clients. ...
- published: 22 Oct 2012
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- author: FairfaxAdCentre
Time to destroy Fairfax media
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Time to destroy Fairfax media.
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Taylor Swift - Fairfax Media Interview In Australia on 26/11/12
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- published: 27 Nov 2012
- views: 233
- author: tomwkm
Hit The Bricks Hippies! James Ireland Fairfax Media 14jan2013
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- published: 16 Jan 2013
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Snake on the Wing of a Plane: Qantas 12ft python clinging on to a wing at 30,000ft
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Passengers on a Qantas jet flying over Australia got a shock when they spotted a 12ft python clinging on to a wing at 30000ft. The plane was around 20 minut...
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Passengers on a Qantas jet flying over Australia got a shock when they spotted a 12ft python clinging on to a wing at 30000ft. The plane was around 20 minut...
- published: 10 Jan 2013
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Fairfax job cuts
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Fairfax Media, the owners of the SMH, have announced the biggest shake-up in their history.
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Fairfax Media, the owners of the SMH, have announced the biggest shake-up in their history.
- published: 18 Jun 2012
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- author: 7NEWS
Fairfax Media - AirLink™ Product Reel
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A ground-breaking technology developed by Fairfax Media that provides readers and advertisers with a dramatically enhanced experience across print and mobile...
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A ground-breaking technology developed by Fairfax Media that provides readers and advertisers with a dramatically enhanced experience across print and mobile...
- published: 10 Oct 2012
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- author: FairfaxAdCentre
Naomi Scott and Shelley Conn - Interview with Fairfax Media!
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- published: 29 Jan 2013
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Fairfax Media's the Big Unit
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Fairfax Media has unveiled a new web-only advertising function called the Big Unit. It allows users to view videos and photo galleries without leaving the cu...
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Fairfax Media has unveiled a new web-only advertising function called the Big Unit. It allows users to view videos and photo galleries without leaving the cu...
- published: 03 Feb 2012
- views: 287
- author: PANPAEditor
Anti-transphobia protest confronts HR manager at Fairfax media
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Wellington-based activist group the Queer Avengers organised an anti-transphobia protest at Fairfax media, in response to a column by Rosemary McLeod publish...
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Wellington-based activist group the Queer Avengers organised an anti-transphobia protest at Fairfax media, in response to a column by Rosemary McLeod publish...
- published: 24 Feb 2012
- views: 230
- author: MonsieurOiseau
Fairfax Media s Joshua Dowling is wowed by the new F12 Berlinetta is the most powerfu
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Fairfax Media s Joshua Dowling is wowed by the new F12 Berlinetta is the most powerful Ferrari road car to date.
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Fairfax Media s Joshua Dowling is wowed by the new F12 Berlinetta is the most powerful Ferrari road car to date.
- published: 27 Feb 2013
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CityRail Western Line Derailment Fairfax Media Video 29/8/2012
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This train derailment at St Marys on the Western and Blue Mountains Lines caused the line to be part suspended between Penrith and Blacktown and lead to dela...
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This train derailment at St Marys on the Western and Blue Mountains Lines caused the line to be part suspended between Penrith and Blacktown and lead to dela...
- published: 01 Sep 2012
- views: 241
- author: byupyu
Jenni McManus joins us for her weekly Fairfax media business briefing.
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- Updated: 28 Feb 2013
Jenni McManus joins us for her weekly Fairfax media business briefing.
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Jenni McManus joins us for her weekly Fairfax media business briefing.
- published: 27 Feb 2013
- author: trans2020ccc
Fairfax overhaul to cost 1,900 jobs
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- Updated: 18 Jun 2012
Fairfax will cut 1900 jobs over the next three years as it makes moves to become a digital media company.
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Fairfax will cut 1900 jobs over the next three years as it makes moves to become a digital media company.
- published: 18 Jun 2012
- views: 115
- author: SkyNewsAustralia
Fairfax Media Metro Block
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- Updated: 22 Oct 2012
A game changing way to buy cross-platform media Metro Block is an unique advertising initiative that allows advertisers to secure premium placements at key t...
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A game changing way to buy cross-platform media Metro Block is an unique advertising initiative that allows advertisers to secure premium placements at key t...
- published: 22 Oct 2012
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Jenni McManus from Fairfax Media joins Corin Dann with her weekly business briefing.
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- Updated: 28 Feb 2013
Jenni McManus from Fairfax Media joins Corin Dann with her weekly business briefing.
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Jenni McManus from Fairfax Media joins Corin Dann with her weekly business briefing.
- published: 28 Feb 2013
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05 Mar 2013
Manila. Members of a major Philippine Muslim rebel force who were meant to have disarmed in the 1990s as part of a peace pact are involved in deadly battles in Malaysia, the group’s leader said on Tuesday. Nur Misuari, who founded the Moro National Liberation Front in the late 1960s, confirmed “freedom fighters” from his group were part of the militia sent by a self-proclaimed sultan to claim the Malaysian state of Sabah....(size: 2.6Kb)
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05 Mar 2013
KUALA LUMPUR. Malaysian security forces attacked a group of armed Filipinos early Tuesday to end the group's three-week occupation of a Borneo village, the prime minister said after the siege turned violent and became Malaysia's biggest security crisis in years ... The Philippine government asked Malaysia on Monday to exercise maximum tolerance to avoid further bloodshed ... 9 ... ....(size: 4.7Kb)
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05 Mar 2013
WASHINGTON - US Vice-President Joe Biden insisted on Monday that President Barack Obama was not bluffing about using force to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions if all else fails, even as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for a "credible military threat" against Tehran ... "Words alone will not stop Iran. Sanctions alone will not stop Iran ... Tehran denies it is seeking one ... "We are not looking for war ... Previous Page 1 2 Next Page....(size: 3.5Kb)
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05 Mar 2013
FOSTER KLUG , The Associated Press. Posted. Tuesday, March 5, 2013, 4.12 AM. SEOUL, South Korea - The Cold War still rages in North Korea, and enemy No ... Security Council sanctions ... U.S ... container - media promo - 173678181 ... Pyongyang's state media recently wrote of the "tragic consequences" of countries that "abandoned halfway their nuclear programs" because of U.S ... Philly.com Media Kit ... © Copyright 2013 Interstate General Media, LLC. ....(size: 9.2Kb)
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05 Mar 2013
MANCHESTER. Cristiano Ronaldo scored the decisive goal as Real Madrid controversially came from behind to win 2-1 at Manchester United on Tuesday and reach the Champions League quarter-finals. In a breathless game, Nani forced Sergio Ramos to put through his own goal in the 48th minute to give United a 2-1 aggregate lead in the last 16 tie, only for the Portuguese winger to then be sent off for a foul on Alvaro Arbeloa ... ....(size: 4.0Kb)
Canberra Times
06 Mar 2013
Fairfax Media has been told Sharks players were given Thymosin Beta 4 and CJC-1295 peptides during the 2011 season ... If the players were to be suspended, Fairfax Media was told the players might sue the club, claiming to have been told the substances were legal. A source told Fairfax Media the players could claim the Sharks had a duty of care for them while they were employed by the club....(size: 4.3Kb)
Canberra Times
06 Mar 2013
That employee refused to comment on Wednesday night when contacted by Fairfax Media ... Fairfax Media was told that the meeting on Tuesday night was the sixth attended by the Sharks players since the dramatic news conference in Canberra a month earlier to announce the findings of an ACC report into doping and match fixing ... Fairfax Media has been told ......(size: 4.5Kb)
Canberra Times
06 Mar 2013
Dark days ... The players refused to sign ... Fairfax Media was told the meeting on Tuesday night was the sixth attended by the Sharks players since the dramatic media conference in Canberra last month to announce the findings of an ACC report into doping and match fixing in sport. No player is thought to have failed a drugs test ... Fairfax Media has been told that Sharks players were given beta thymosin and CJC 1295 during the 2011 season ... ....(size: 3.0Kb)
Canberra Times
06 Mar 2013
Fairfax Media was told that the meeting was the sixth attended by the Sharks players since the dramatic media conference in Canberra a month earlier to announce the findings of an Australian Crime Commission report into doping and match fixing ... No player is thought to have failed a drugs test ... Fairfax Media has been told that Sharks players were given beta thymosin and CJC 1295 during the 2011 season ... ....(size: 3.2Kb)
Canberra Times
06 Mar 2013
Closing ranks. Cronulla coach Shane Flanagan barred the media from his club's training session on Wednesday ... Coach Shane Flanagan cancelled media engagements and a planned store appearance as the club locked down ... However, a club representative denied this was the case ... Sources have told Fairfax Media that some Sharks players are concerned they are being investigated for their dealings with Dank after he left the club ... Fairfax inquiries ... ....(size: 3.5Kb)
Stuff
06 Mar 2013
Dan Carter has laughed off speculation he has signed with a Japanese club. Reports the All Blacks and Crusaders first five-eighth is about to ink a deal with the Toyota club and would miss the All Blacks' end-of-season tour were dismissed by Carter when he finished training in Christchurch today ... Ad Feedback ... "Dan Carter would close [to what Williams earned]," Jones told Fairfax Media last month ... - © Fairfax NZ News. ....(size: 3.3Kb)
Stockhouse
06 Mar 2013
Dynamic Media to serve rich experiences on demand across Web, mobile and social properties using a single set of master assets ... Mark Henley, technology strategy director, Fairfax Metro Media “Adobe Experience Manager is fast becoming an ideal solution for not only marketing organizations but also media companies like Fairfax Media....(size: 6.9Kb)
noodls
06 Mar 2013
Dynamic Media to serve rich experiences on demand across Web, mobile and social properties using a single set of master assets ... Mark Henley, technology strategy director, Fairfax Metro Media "Adobe Experience Manager is fast becoming an ideal solution for not only marketing organizations but also media companies like Fairfax Media....(size: 7.1Kb)
Sydney Morning Herald
06 Mar 2013
Fairfax Media understands the meeting was the latest in a number of player meetings, which didn't involve coach Shane Flanagan or any club officials....(size: 0.8Kb)
Canberra Times
06 Mar 2013
When news got out about the players' meeting, Cronulla's Wednesday morning training session was effectively blocked from the media and other onlookers, with the session going ahead behind closed gates. Fairfax Media understands the meeting was the latest in a number of player meetings, which didn't involve coach Shane Flanagan or any club official ... ....(size: 1.8Kb)
Canberra Times
06 Mar 2013
''It's suspended until we find out some further information.'' ... When news got out about the players' meeting, the Sharks' Wednesday morning training session was effectively blocked from the media and any other onlookers, with the session going ahead behind closed gates. Fairfax Media understands the meeting was the latest in a number of player meetings, which didn't involve coach Shane Flanagan or any club officials ... ....(size: 2.0Kb)
Canberra Times
06 Mar 2013
Bookmakers suspended betting on the Sharks' round-one clash with Gold Coast on Sunday amid rumours that several players were set to be stood down ... Coach Shane Flanagan cancelled media engagements and a store appearance as the club locked down ... Sources have told Fairfax Media that some Sharks players are concerned they are being investigated for their dealings with Dank after he left the club ... ....(size: 1.8Kb)
Sydney Morning Herald
06 Mar 2013
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| Type | Public (ASX - FXJ) |
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| Industry | Media |
| Founded | 1841 |
| Headquarters | One Darling Island Road Pyrmont Sydney, Australia |
| Area served | Australia, New Zealand |
| Key people | Greg Hywood (CEO) Roger Corbett (Chairman) |
| Products | Newspapers Radio Magazines Internet |
| Revenue |  A$2.48 billion(27 June 2011)[1] |
| Net income | A$273.7 million (27 June 2011)[1] |
| Employees |  8,806 Full-time employees 1,825 Part-time and casual employees (26 June 2011)[1] |
| Website | www.fxj.com.au |
Fairfax Media Limited is one of Australia's largest diversified media companies. The group's operations include newspapers, magazines, radios and digital media operating in Australia and New Zealand. Fairfax Media was founded by the Fairfax family as John Fairfax and Sons, later to become John Fairfax Holdings. However, the family lost control of the company in December 1990. The group's Chairman is Roger Corbett and the Chief Executive Officer is Greg Hywood.[2] As of May 2008 Fairfax Media had a market capitalisation of over A$5 billion.[3] By September 2011 this had fallen by more than 60 per cent to less than A$2 billion.
In early February 2012, Gina Rinehart, a mining business woman and reportedly Australia's wealthiest person, increased her shareholdings to over 14% of Fairfax Media to make her the group's largest non-institutional investor.[4][5][6]
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History[link]
John Fairfax purchased the Sydney Morning Herald in 1841.[7] Several generations of the Fairfax family continued to control the company.
1950s to 1999[link]
The Australian Financial Review was founded in 1951. In that decade, Fairfax started two television stations, ATN and QTQ. Fairfax began expanding in the 1960s, acquiring, among others, The Age, The Newcastle Herald and the Illawarra Mercury. In 1979, Rupert Murdoch attempted to take over rival The Herald and Weekly Times. Due to the costs of defending the takeover, Fairfax sold its television properties, including the Seven Network. In 1988, Fairfax sold its magazines (including Woman's Day, People, Dolly, and Good Housekeeping) to Australian Consolidated Press, and discontinued its Sydney afternoon tabloid The Sun, transferring some of its content and the sponsorship of the City to Surf to its new Sunday tabloid The Sun-Herald which also replaced the broadsheet Sunday Herald.
In 1987 Warwick Fairfax, then aged 26, controversially bought out his family's holdings in the company by borrowing heavily. He successfully took it over but on 10 December 1990 the company collapsed and a receiver was appointed,[8] with company debts of A$1.7 billion.[7] By 1993, the company was re-listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and the two biggest shareholders of John Fairfax Holdings were the Canadian newspaper magnate, Conrad Black and his Hollinger Group with 25%, and the Australian media mogul, Kerry Packer and his publicly-listed company, Publishing and Broadcasting Limited with 15%. Due to Australian government concerns over media consolidation that limited any single foreign shareholder holding more than 25% interest in national and metropolitan newspapers,[9] after intense lobbying for the right to increase his stake, Black conceded defeat in 1996,[10][11][12] selling his holding to the New Zealand corporate "raider" Brierley Investments, that was ultimately subject to the same restrictions.[8]
2000 to present[link]
In April 2003, Fairfax acquired New Zealand's Independent Newspapers Limited (INL), owners of many of New Zealand's highest-profile newspapers. In July 2005, Fairfax acquired the RSVP dating site for A$38 million.[13] In August 2005, Fairfax's general classifieds site created in March 2004, Cracker.com.au consistently exceeded 500,000 unique visitors a month.[citation needed] In December 2005, Fairfax acquired Stayz Pty Ltd[14] for A$12M.[citation needed]
In August 2005, Fairfax ended its 16 month search for a new Chief Executive Officer with David Kirk, a former Rugby Union World Cup winning captain of the New Zealand All Blacks being appointed to replace departing CEO Fred Hilmer. David Kirk got the job ahead of Fairfax COO Brian Evans (former head of Fairfax New Zealand) and Doug Flynn, who took the top job at UK Pest control company Rentokil after negotiations with Fairfax broke off. In March 2006, Fairfax acquired New Zealand auction website Trademe.co.nz for NZ$700M.[citation needed] On 4 March 2006, it was announced that Fairfax would purchase The Border Mail newspaper in Albury-Wodonga for A$162 million. In October 2006, speculation began to grow that the company would be bought out and split up after the passage of changes to Australian media laws. Rival media company News Limited purchased a 7.5% stake in the company at this time, with the stated aim of keeping Fairfax in one piece.[citation needed]
On 7 December 2006, John Fairfax Holdings and Rural Press announced the beginning of their merger proceedings. Once merged, the new entity formed a publishing company worth A$9 billion and resulted in regaining control of The Canberra Times (which it owned in the 1980s), and through John B. Fairfax of Rural Press, saw the return of the Fairfax family to the company board. The company also gained a number of other regional newspapers, radio stations and websites; plus agricultural publications in various countries.[citation needed] On 12 January 2007, John Fairfax Holdings changed its name to Fairfax Media.[15]
On 7 March 2007, Fairfax Media announced a new website for Brisbane, called the Brisbane Times. The website initially employed 14 journalists and was an attempt by Fairfax to break into the South East Queensland market.[citation needed] On 20 March 2007 Fairfax Media launched a new business website, BusinessDay.com.au that aggregated feeds from the other news vehicles in the Fairfax stable as well as "from the world's most respected news sources". It featured breaking news updated "every 15 minutes".[citation needed] Also in 2007 Fairfax Media bought the radio assets of Southern Cross Broadcasting. Macquarie Media Group purchased Southern Cross for A$1.35 billion and onsold these assets to the Fairfax Group.[16]
On 26 August 2007, Kirk and Deputy CEO Brian McCarthy announced that 550 staff would be cut as part of a "business improvement" programme. The staff reductions would take place in both Australia and New Zealand, with the latter country bearing the brunt of the cuts, with 160 full-time employees losing their jobs.[17][dead link] On 5 December, David Kirk tendered his resignation, and on 10 December Brian McCarthy (former Rural Press CEO) was appointed as CEO. A new campaign, "Fair Go, Fairfax: Don't discount journalism",[18] was launched by the MEAA[citation needed] in protest to the cuts arguing that the jobs losses will affect "quality journalism".
In late 2011, John B. Fairfax and his family investment company, Marinya Media, sold their remaining 9.7% stake in Fairfax Media for A$189 million. The sale came after an earlier dispute between John B. Fairfax and Chairman of the Fairfax Media board, Ron Walker, that led to the very public departure of Walker. Continued poor performance of Fairfax Media in light of changing news services was cited as one of the reasons for the sale of Marinya Media's interests in Fairfax. John B. Fairfax has earlier stood down from the Fairfax board and his son, Nick Fairfax, was reported to be discussing his future with the rest of the company board.[19][20][21][22]. In 2012 mining billionaires, Gina Reinhart became Fairfax's biggest shareholder, purchasing a 14% stake in the company. Reinhart also sought a position on the Fairfax board.[23]
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Australia[link]
Australian newspapers[link]
Fairfax publishes the second most circulated daily papers in both Melbourne and Sydney, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald respectively. It also publishes a daily business tabloid, The Australian Financial Review.
Fairfax also owns papers in major regional centres, including the Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong), The Newcastle Herald (Newcastle), The Border Mail (Albury-Wodonga) and The Warrnambool Standard, (Warrnambool). In addition, its subsidiary Fairfax Community Newspapers publishes 35 community newspapers serving suburban Victoria and New South Wales.
As a result of its Rural Press acquisition, Fairfax has taken control of many newspapers including The Canberra Times and The Land.
Australian magazines[link]
Fairfax publishes a number of magazines, such as the(sydney)magazine, theage(melbourne)magazine and Good Weekend, which are distributed with their newspapers. In addition, the company publishes business-centred magazines including BRW, AFR Smart Investor, AFR Magazine, AFR Boss, CFO Australia, MIS (magazine) and Asset (Magazine).
Australian digital[link]
Fairfax owns a profitable Australian online subsidiary, Fairfax Digital which was once known as the F2 Network. Fairfax publishes web editions of most of its newspaper titles, as well as digital only news sites in South-East Queensland as the Brisbane Times; and in Western Australia as WA Today. Both The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald produce a limited amount of video content, which is only available online. Fairfax websites have non-exclusive licensing deals to replay video content from broadcaster Network Ten.
Rural Press owns a range of similar classifieds and local newspaper websites.
Australian radio[link]
On 11 July 2007, Fairfax Media acquired the former radio assets of Southern Cross Broadcasting (on-sold from Macquarie Media Group's purchase of SCB): 2UE Sydney, 3AW and Magic 1278 Melbourne, 4BC and 4BH Brisbane, and 6PR and 96fm Perth. Graham Mott will continue in his role as general manager of the broadcast radio group under Fairfax. Mott indicated at the time of the acquisition that national syndication of programming (such as that of the since-retired John Laws) would largely be replaced on the network with more localised syndication at a state level.[24]
Fairfax also acquired Satellite Music Australia (SMA) as part of the SCB deal, who provide music channels to retailers, as well as Foxtel and Austar[25][dead link] (where it is branded AIR). MyTalk Datacasting Channel was officially purchased from Southern Cross Broadcasting on 5 November 2007,[26][dead link] and ceased broadcasting on 25 February 2008.
Australian Syndication[link]
Fairfax Syndication manages the commercial licensing and distribution of text, photographic and multimedia content to media companies and commercial clients worldwide. Fairfax Syndication has enabled instant online licensing and has developed a customised syndication application ‘API’ that allows existing and future syndication clients access to real-time content from multiple websites for immediate use on other platforms. The division also represents their image library and photo syndication service containing over 16 million images.
New Zealand[link]
In March 2009, Allen Williams became the CEO of Fairfax New Zealand.
Fairfax New Zealand News (FNZ)
On 1 September 2011 Fairfax New Zealand announced the launch of Fairfax New Zealand News (FNZ) partly as a response to the New Zealand Press Association (NZPA) closure but also reflects Fairfax's drive to improve its journalism.
New Zealand newspapers[link]
In New Zealand, its subsidiary Fairfax New Zealand Limited publishes a stable of papers formerly owned by Independent Newspapers Limited (INL), including The Dominion Post in Wellington, The Christchurch Press in Christchurch, The Sunday Star-Times and Suburban Newspapers in Auckland. Fairfax also own over 60 community newspapers.
New Zealand magazines[link]
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New Zealand digital[link]
In NZ, Fairfax's websites form the Stuff.co.nz portal. Sites include News, Employment, Property, Personals and Shopping. Fairfax also owns the Cuisine website as part of its ownership of the magazine of the same name.[28]
United States[link]
Fairfax acquired a number of US agricultural publications from Rural Press on 8 May 2007. The head of Fairfax Media's agricultural division and the one who instigated this buy up is Michael Blommley.
United States[link]
Farm Progress magazines[29]
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