Kerry Packer was brilliant.

@Dreama40

Жыл бұрын

Sure was and a really good bloke. I was in the car park at the Australian Golf Club in 1996 and accidently dropped my camera and Kerry was walking through the car park at the same time and he came over to me and pulled out a 1000 dollars from his wallet and said go by yourself a new one. He was a bloody good man!!

@lifesshorttt

Жыл бұрын

How nice of him, giving you one of his 9000000 thousands.

@Dina-md3ji

Жыл бұрын

I don't believe that

Love him or loathe him the world needs people like Kerry Packer.

@Ingens_Scherz

Жыл бұрын

The people who don't love Kerry Packer are the people the world does not need.

@olivealbers2478

Жыл бұрын

Few and far between, unfortunately.

He was a ruthless businessman, but he had a big heart and was very generous to the common man.

He is the definition of Australia, tough,shrewd, honest,fair,funny, hand shake deal .

@paddy.7784

Жыл бұрын

Yeah .. Agree to a point .. But let's not forget it's shameful racist history.

@twomindz79

Жыл бұрын

@@paddy.7784 Every civilized country has a history of racism. Shaming Australia is very narrow minded.

@rankoss3437

Жыл бұрын

@@paddy.7784 cry about it then cant rewrite it all

@lawrenceoctaviuskeet3212

5 ай бұрын

Australian of a by gone era

What Australia is totally lacking today is intelligent free thinkers like Kerry Packer. With Kerry there is no BS, no pretence he was the ultimate straight shooter. I'm sure Kerry and Ita were close friends when their offices were only a floor apart. Kerry seems very aware and astute in who he picks as friends. That's a very good skill set to have.

Straight talker, the world needs more like him, very interesting man

It makes you realise what a charismatic, intelligent and smart business man Kerry Packer was. Great interview.

@lukespector5550

9 ай бұрын

So would you & I be if we had a Knighted father who died & left us a few hundred million after all debts paid. His height, weight & sporting analogies were what appealed to the average Mums & Dads. Overcoming polio disease was Kerry's strength. Appealing to working-class sheep another.

@looking8030

3 ай бұрын

Should watch when the government does a inquiry on him absolute classic

@Hungry_Hunter

3 ай бұрын

@@looking8030 yes I remember seeing it on the news when it happened. A big bloke with the brains to match. A sad loss .

@looking8030

3 ай бұрын

@@Hungry_Hunter I just watched the whole thing nearly 2hrs of something I wished we had today 💯👌🏽

Legend !! Australia needs a straight talker like KP now 👍

Can't help but like him. A true character.

This is so great. Thanks for uploading it. I can learn a ton just by listening to Kerry Packer.

Kerry was a highly intelligent, astute businessman, honed over the years by a father who was a hard, unforgiving task master. He credits his father as a far greater businessman, but I think he was a rare gem himself. He took over a company worth $100M and turned it into $7Billion. No accident or luck in that.

@lukespector5550

Жыл бұрын

Because he paid Asher Edelman (personal accountant), Malcolm Turnbull (then his go to Legal Advice) & "Rivkin James Capel" (René's Sydney based stockbrokers) + Brent Potts (stocks as well). Bruce Gyngell wasn't a bad whipping-boy mainstay at Channel 9 HQ either. Packer was just a bully. He could afford Dr. Victor Chang to keep his heart in cigarettes & cholesterol.

@julienfroidevaux1143

Жыл бұрын

No luck by inheriting 100 million ? Give me 100 million with contacts his farther had and I will show you what I can do .

@UnbiasedTruth..

11 ай бұрын

​@@julienfroidevaux1143🤏🧠🤡

@user-vl6xt2rt7p

9 ай бұрын

All the praise given to frank was to hide brutality as the happiest day of kerrys life the day his father died

Kerry packer what a legend of a man who loved cricket that just about sums it up.

I could listened to Kerry all night long..revolutionised the game..i was a cricket mad teenager when WSC began..loved it and remembered so well.

@zibtihaj3213

9 ай бұрын

How can I find footage of any of those matches ?

Love the Kerry. A force of humanity that we would be all poorer without.

KP - one of a kind.

Jack Thompson was superb in The Club - a great Australian movie..

He is beautifully spoken. I had no idea.

What a man he was hats of to you sir 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

My father worked for Kerry in the 70s..he said he was fair but if you crossed him he would absolutely destroy you.

Put a defibrillator in every ambulance after being revived by one in th off chance th ambo that was called for his heart attack had one. He was appalled that they all didn't have one. Love him or hate him, he would have saved alot of lives! 👍👍

What a great interview and what a great man in Kerry Packer.

Kerry Packer interview was one of the best I have ever heard.

We need a new show like this. With intelligent people and musicians.

I've paid money to watch comedians that weren't as funny as Kerry Packer! He tells a good story and there are a lot of good stories about him.

Parkinson tried to have his dig come up short by the proverbial mile. Mr. Packer was the epitome of a common-sense highly intelligent articulated gave real in-depth answers to some of Parkinson's' digs at him.

Thank you Laurie for uploading these videos. Kerry Packer, what a wonderful Australian and human being. Jack Thompson, I was never all that aware of him except (interesting relationship with 2 sisters), but it was very good to listen to his story and he seems like a nice man too. Glad I hears his story.

Absolutely fantastic episode. Thanks for uploading.

22:56 - he's smoking 20 Rothmans! Great Australian, great interview.

Absolutely fascinating on every level. The most startling is the lost art of a quality interviewer who can draw out the interviewee. No doubt about it Kerry Packer was one of a kind and so was Parkinson.

fantastic talent there thanks for the share

The father of modern cricket. Thanks Mr Packer, good on ya 👍🏻

I was brought up to dislike people like Kerry Packer - however, if this interview is anything to go by, he was actually just ME with a better education and work ethic!

Superb Mr Packer 🎉😊

Kerry Packer was very smart , at the end of his time on earth, as his health declined, he’d call the outside broadcast of the tv station he owned demanding better camera shots of the cricket broadcast , nothing had changed, it was broadcast just as before, but his eyesight was failing , and he was demanding more close up editing from the production crew, so he could enjoy his cricket .

After his massive heart attack about 1990 he'd tell people "I've been to the other side, son, & let me tell you there's fucking nothing there."

Amazing how Greg Norman and LIV Golf have mirrored exactly what happened with Kerry Packer and boring traditional cricket so many years ago! Now test cricket still exists today albeit in many ways in the shadow of 20/20 but it's still there and probably better to watch today because of Word Series Cricket !

Kerry. The man. The legend.

A truely great and humble Australian. Every professional cricketer owes him their livelihood, every professional Australian sportsperson owes thanks to a degree for the money they make.

Thanks for the upload! Legend!

@PaulDunn-uw6pq

10 ай бұрын

My pleasure

Kerry Packer,42 but looking 55-60!

@chook1311

Жыл бұрын

As far as I was concerned he was born looking like this😂. Love him though

@dafalzonAUS

Жыл бұрын

I’m 45 and I look half his age

@frjcde9392

Жыл бұрын

@@dafalzonAUS you might think you do, but I guarantee if I seen you I’d know your on your 40s.

Parkinson in this interview with KP was struggling to find his depth, Packer just strolls through leaving him in his wake in his enviably inimitable style, I've always admired KP, Australia lost a brilliant businessman and genuine philanthropist in Kerry Packer.

when men were men ~ love kerry packer RIP ~ when Australia was led by great men .

@nkt1

10 ай бұрын

Privileged background, overweight, so addicted to nicotine he can’t go half an hour without a ciggie. Yup, a real man.

Great man great Australian

Lights up ciggy during the interview IN THE STUDIO. Different times, oh so different

Great man,inspiring to anyone who wants to make it big,be kind but ruthless in the business sence,never forgot where you came from.and give alittle back they'll remember you for that

Great man!

I thought I knew what Jack Thompson was like , this interview changed that , down to earth ,is my opinion now. Does anyone else remember him on the 1970's tv advertisement for Clayton's , non alcoholic drink?. It was shown in NZ , probably in Australia as well ?

Awesome Saturday morning thanks 🙏 Laurie.

@LaurieBasile

Жыл бұрын

Kerry Packer was an Australian media mogul heavyweight.

@danrobinson572

Жыл бұрын

@@LaurieBasile okay 👍

@LaurieBasile

Жыл бұрын

@@danrobinson572 He was a scary boss.

@danrobinson572

Жыл бұрын

@@LaurieBasile 👍

If you don't believe this country lost a great deal when we lost this man then you know little

Kerry was a real true blue aussie,Great man.!! Love his wit and no-bullshit way. RIP Kerry.

Fascinating ìnterveiw especially how genuine and candidly he speaks possibly his greatest asset . He really would have been formidable in any debate.

@CovidConQuitTheCensorship

Жыл бұрын

There are two interviews

@petercunningham3469

Жыл бұрын

@@CovidConQuitTheCensorship only watched Packer .

Wow, Parker was so so clever and interesting.

he did leave a monument - the Packer Whacker - he provided the funding for equipping all NSW ambulances with a portable defibrillator

kerry was a pure genius. classy, funny and all round good guy. very well spoken with a great witty sense of humour about him. A true genius that the government hated because he beat them at their own manipulative game. RIP A TRUE LEGEND.

@GG-ud8id

Жыл бұрын

Yeah he was great to women too......

@The_Candyman86

Жыл бұрын

@@GG-ud8id was a gentleman

@frjcde9392

Жыл бұрын

@@The_Candyman86 well that just isn’t true.

@Shatter84

Жыл бұрын

I know for a fact that Packer used standover men to bash and threaten competitors so I don't know if 'all round good guy' and 'gentlemen' would be the right term. He was more akin to a mafia boss.

@The_Candyman86

Жыл бұрын

@@Shatter84 ur facts are fake as the ppl who told you. I knew Kerry and we had business together

Way too quick, smart and oozing integrity for you Parko!!!

Marconi MkVIII cameras giving good pictures

Good bloke - firm, fair and fearless

KP was only 42 in this interview!

Kerry Packer's business sense was exceptional Instinctive and pragmatic, his business success in his own right is due to his own inherent talent rather than his father's legacy. He was an extraordinary Australian.

Real Australian in business and life

Pretty much wears his heart on his sleeve ❤Wonderful 🙏

@CovidConQuitTheCensorship

Жыл бұрын

Who? There are two interviews here

For a guy who was supposed to be dislexic and no formal educational qualifications he's very personable and expresses himself rather well.

Jack was magnificent.

I saw Jack Thompson a few years back in a pie restaurant in the blue mountains, he looked like a lonely old man eating on his own ….

KP wow!!!

Clever clever man

The best of a mans potential is belted into him, literally. Today, bereft of any corporal punishment in schools or the family home, behold its result. Kerry was a tough yet generous man of incredible resolve and intelligence.

As a poodle owner I’m livid. Poodles are the least obliging dog at times whilst being the bravest. Prof, come and meet my toy poodle. 😊

Packer got the big things right

A wonderful 🇦🇺 family, with generations of success. I would like to assist James personally with issues of criminal charges etc and the demise of the Packer empire.Its not the financial demise it's the personal issues. Australian rules football needs what Kerry did for cricket. It's not going to happen. Mrs Ros Packer, Scone, hang in there. These must be tough times. James, get away from prescription drugs. They WILL kill you. ☘️

Suberb - back when it was a great, somewhat innocent country finding it's way in the world... what went wrong?

Only if Kerry could see what he’s done today

Unfortunately they don’t make Men like Kerry anymore… They Bloody Well Should…. We need Em….

Very witty guy

Great stuff. Entertaining. He was hard , but pretty fair overall I think?

@davidhancock91

Жыл бұрын

Packer a good man essentially, Murdoch not a good man .

Wasn't he an impressive man?

16:40 ish mark really makes me sick we don’t make any of that anymore

A fundamentally decent man

Could a show like this interviewing a man like that happen today? Clearly no. Not on the abc. The media in this country can’t abide anyone whose views contrast with theirs or who is more successful than them. Identity politics and jealousy is killing this once great nation. KP was a brilliant man who, while flawed, created so much wealth not only for himself but for 1000s of people.

BOOMBAYAY!

Coincidence a kiwi in Australia working in Port Augusta 😊

Speaks like a mix of Sir Les Patterson and Dame Edna.

He left behind some Packer Whackers.

"Jazz Flute Is For Little Fairy Boys" - Veronica Corningstone

Ended up leaving a defib in every ambulance in Sydney didnt he?

Five is far too early to be sent to boarding school.

Was Mark 'Jacko' Jackson and Kerry Packer related, man they look alike

Pink Floyd - Dogs

Get that shit of my station!

What sort of parent would send their child to boarding school?

@KayAteChef

Жыл бұрын

When you are a rich public figure, you try to keep your children grounded, and the home life won't do that. So they rely on boarding schools. It is also heartbreaking to be so strict on your children when you have the means to spoil them so you outsource the discipline. It is a tricky situation and you can overdo it or underdo it. These days people treat their dogs like children and their children like friends. It is hard to say what is best. Somewhere in the balance.

@chapmansbg

Жыл бұрын

@@KayAteChef Don't have a dog, would not treat it like a child if I did. My children are well disciplined young people and they we are also very close. This all came from years of personal sacrifice. I personally think that no matter how much money you have you should not outsource the looking after and disciplining of your children. Thanks for your reply, take care!

Only thing I liked about him was World Series Cricket.

People say Logan Roy in 'Succession' is based on Rupert Murdoch but I wonder if Brian Cox drew at least partly on Kerry Packer - a force of nature, but brutal. His father Sir Frank was even worse. And now his son James is looking very much like Kendall Roy. One person who knew Kerry said he'd never known a lonelier man.

@LaurieBasile

Жыл бұрын

Great insight!

@Elitist20

Жыл бұрын

@@LaurieBasile He even had an elder brother like Logan Roy - Clyde Packer was supposed to take over but he took his share of the family fortune and got out. Sir Frank frequently called Kerry 'the village idiot' and subjected him to years of abuse.

To get away.......The mentality of the privilege, he knows nothing. Hard work counting paper for 7-3??? Ooooh, hard life PRINCESS. Weak boy. Workers take action because the conditions are horrible not JUST TO GET AWAY, OFF WITH HIS BALLS AND HEAD.

Why does he worship his dad People say he “ hated “ him …

@lawrenceoctaviuskeet3212

5 ай бұрын

He gave him the world and showed him how to manage that responsibilty.

@zibtihaj3213

5 ай бұрын

@@lawrenceoctaviuskeet3212 and the hate came cause he never got any respect from him ? treated like an idiot son ?

@lawrenceoctaviuskeet3212

5 ай бұрын

@@zibtihaj3213 maybe if he didn't receive it he wouldn't have become the man he was

It's quite jarring to see someone light up during a tv interview.

@majorlaff8682

Жыл бұрын

Enjoy being jarred.

Back when domestic violence was funny.

I don't know much about Packer but that story about the Australian Women's Weekly and the ten Bob on a horse was a load of rubbish wasn't it?

@mahjonglivestreaming4535

Жыл бұрын

how..? Australia is a small country so his business abiltities is very admired. Kerry Packer is beyond the likes of Trump... Trump is a loser.

@johnhand3194

Жыл бұрын

Why would the man lie?? Why would you know better than he?

@jasejj

Жыл бұрын

@@johnhand3194 it just doesn't seem to match up with documented history on the subject.

@KayAteChef

Жыл бұрын

I took it to mean that he had undeclared income. So I would have told the same story. All good.

The heights of self-gratification in two modes