OneTel boss Jodee Rich (Anthony Harkin) is a character we can both like and laugh at, all expensive shorts, carpe diem buzzwords and wanky rollerblades. So much happens! The rise and fall of OneTel, for starters. You won’t see a better metamorphosis this side of a cocoon. McConville becomes the bullish businessman of legend literally before our eyes. The flesh of his face seems to actually droop. His chest caves, his shoulders slope, he smears his wig off and his belly billows out. He is playing young Kerry, muscular and shirtless, and hauling himself from hospital bed to ashtray where a cigarette smolders. McConville is responsible, too, for an unforgettable early scene. Josh McConville metamorphoses into middle-aged Kerry, pictured here with John Howard as his father, Frank. Sometimes he does this merely through peals of boyish laughter, which, as an infectious laugh will, warms you to him almost completely. He brings nuance to James’s desire to please, and sympathy to the burden of the crown. He doesn’t have the brutish build of James, but McConville is an impressively physical actor and wonderful in the role. (But actually quite possible given how often Kerry was critically ill or clinically dead only to barrel back into the boardroom, Lazarus-like, to belittle his son.) Younger audiences, too, may struggle – they should certainly google “OneTel collapse” for some background first.īar some noisy helicopter landings, the production stays fairly minimal, requiring little more than suits that modernise for each era and a set that slides into a Packer-occupied hospital ward more times than you’d think possible. As a result, though, the script would be unintelligible to non-Australian audiences. We already know a lot, by osmosis, about the Packers and Murphy doesn’t waste words rehashing it. It is fitting the play’s development was funded via the David Williamson Prize for Excellence in Writing for Australian Theatre, as it is a quintessentially Australian story. Parker died of kidney failure on 26th December 2005 in Sydney.‘The production stays fairly minimal, requiring little more than suits that modernise for each era.’ Photograph: Brett Boardman The Packer Empire consists of TV networks, magazines, petrochemicals, telecommunications, diamond exploration and heavy engineering. He was highly respected in the business world as a self-made man. Nevertheless, packer was a highly clever businessman who knew exactly when and how to make a deal. Sometimes he would be with the Labor Party and when the Liberal Party started gaining popularity he would side with them. He was on the side that was most popular at the time. Kerry Packer was also friends with many politicians whom he used for his own benefits whenever he needed them. He spent millions in gambling and also had no regrets when he lost the money. Similarly he won 33 million dollars at the MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas. He lost almost 28 million dollars at London Casinos in 1999 which was said to be the biggest amount loss in British history. He was eminent for his massive wins and losses. He was a heavy chain smoker and very fond of gambling. Packer was always in some sort of controversy throughout his life. Lucky for him a deposit of rubies was found in one of his lands in 2003. Packer was Australia’s largest land owners. Kerry Packer was also very interested in Polo and he created Ellerston and Ellerstina that modernized polo immensely. Packer hired the best lawyers to make sure that he could maintain his broadcasting rights for Australian cricket. He is famous for establishing the World Series Cricket which caused him a lot of problems as there was a lot of rebellion when top players rushed to join Packer at the expense of their teams. It is said that in 1992 while Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos was airing on TCN-9, he called his Sydney Station and told them to take the show off air immediately. He also frequently interfered in the programming of his TV stations. Packer was also known for being directly involved in the content of his newspapers however much less than is heard of the extremely proactive Rupert Murdoch.
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