John Elliott was a great businessman for the buccaneering 1980s, but he could not survive when the reckoning came in the 1990s and the 2000s with much tougher compliance, Peter Costello, chairman of Nine and the Future Fund, says.
John Elliott at Elders IXL in 1989.
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