On March 25, 1998, the Financial Review’s Chanticleer column reminded readers that, after selling his Nine Network to Alan Bond for $1 billion back in 1987, Packer said: “You only get one Bond in your life and I’ve had mine.”
Three years after the sale, he repurchased Nine for $250 million.
Andrew ClarkSenior writerAndrew Clark is a former editor of The Sun-Herald and Australian Business. He was a correspondent in Europe and North America, a political correspondent in Canberra and has been a journalist for more than 55 years. Email Andrew at aclark@afr.com.au
