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The Joy of Six: lost Australian sport teams

Edit The Guardian 13 Oct 2014
From Clive Palmer’s football project to the Brisbane Bears’ glory days, our pick of clubs that fell off the map. Gold Coast United enjoying happier times before their extinction. Photograph ... Even the $4m they paid to enter the competition was still owed to the bank, and with their loan guaranteed by the failed Qintex empire of feckless tycoon Christopher Skase, the league’s northern experiment was on the brink of collapse ... Just because ... ....

Frank Robson reflections on the greatest Australian scandals of the past 30 years

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 25 Sep 2014
FINE COTTON ... SIR BILLY SNEDDEN ... CHRISTOPHER SKASE. As the Indulgent Eighties drew to a close, Skase, sniffing disaster, began channelling huge sums from investors in his overextended Qintex Group into foreign bank accounts ... Qintex collapsed in late 1989, and the Melbourne-born Skase - who made his fortune through lavish resorts and the Seven Network - was charged with improperly using his position to obtain management fees ...    ... ....

A new epoch takes shape

Edit The Australian 15 Jun 2014
1989 was not only the end of a decade — it was also the end of the Cold War, the end of the Soviet Union and communism, the end of the democracy movement in China and the beginning of a new era for The Australian. 1989. The Berlin Wall falls. The end of communism came quickly ... Wall comes down ... The eyes of media observers were fixed on the Seven Network, then controlled by the former journalist Christopher Skase’s Qintex group....
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