Why the Qantas chairman is building a maritime museum under his house
John Mullen has learnt a lot from the likes of Matthew Flinders, the first man to circumnavigate Australia, and 16th-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
Qantas Chairman John Mullen’s collection takes in landscape and portrait paintings, early maps, manuscripts, documents and artefacts from shipwrecks. Dominic Lorrimer
It’s hard not to get swept up in John Mullen’s world. Not the world in which the chairman of Qantas, Treasury Wine Estates and logistics group Brambles plays a critical role overseeing some of Australia’s biggest companies, but that of the great explorers traversing the high seas into the unknown.
That is not to say that Mullen’s two worlds are entirely separate. Indeed, it soon becomes apparent the extent to which Mullen’s two universes interact with each other.
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