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Kerry Packer emerged from the shadow of his father - and nine months in an iron lung as a childhood polio victim - to become Australia’s richest man and a powerful media baron. He started work loading newspapers at his father’s Daily Telegraph, but when it came to investing his inheritance, Kerry favoured television, casinos and land over newspapers. Internationally, he is best-known for unleashing the 1977 cricket revolution that transformed the game. Kerry Packer was a hands-on proprietor, philanderer, heavy smoker, gambler, philanthropist, spectacular deal-maker and brutal opponent, but steadfastly loyal to employees and associates he trusted and liked.