These were the stories which stand out to me over a 35-year career covering horse racing for The Daily and Sunday Telegraphs. During this period, I’ve reported on some of the greatest champions the ...

IN the 1997 Melbourne Cup, media magnate Kerry Packer orchestrated one of Australia’s greatest betting plunges and then wanted the scalp of our journalist Ray Thomas who got the scoop. This was never ...

Offspring star Lachy Hulme has said that he has to gain weight to play media mogul Kerry Packer in a new television series. The actor recently gained - then lost - 25kg to play Beaconsfield miner Todd ...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - The wealthiest man in Australia, media and gambling mogul Kerry Packer, has died, his family said in a statement today. He was 68. Packer — ranked as the world's 94th wealthiest ...

A FEDERAL Court judge will today decide whether the secret of one of the great betting splurges in track history should be revealed. Late media baron Kerry Packer famously blew tens of millions of ...

Australia's political, business, sporting and entertainment elite have remembered the life of Kerry Packer with laughter and tears at a taxpayer-funded state memorial service. The billionaire ...

Australian media mogul Kerry Packer has died at the age of 68. The country's richest man, he founded the publicly-listed Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd (PBL) through his company, Consolidated Press ...

The media tycoon's lavish state funeral in 2006 at the Sydney Opera House at a cost of $73,223.63 was by far the most expensive of the past eight years, federal government figures show. Celebrities ...

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has led the tributes for flamboyant media mogul Kerry Packer at a state memorial service at Sydney Opera House. Packer died in his Sydney home on 26 December, ...

There was the More Joyous affair and the $5 million bet – but to this day, the story that Ray Thomas reflects on most is the one he wrote which had Kerry Packer baying for blood. These were the ...