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Pay up, pay up or I’ll break your legs

Posted by Bron on Wednesday 10 September 2008, 11:40 am
Categories: Media, Politics Tags: Tags: JamesPacker, KerryPacker, StateFuneral, tax

Comes details today about just exactly how much the late Kerry Packer’s state funeral cost NSW taxpayers: $73,223.63.

This for a man who had a personal wealth of an estimated $7 billion by the time he died.

This week has seen the new NSW Premier admit that the state of financial affairs is perilous, with NSW blowing out to a deficit of $1 billion.

I’m thinking, let the Packers offer to pay for Kerry’s bloody funeral* — not that they will, of course. After all, this was the man who would try to pay as little tax as possible when he was alive. Who’s to say his family hasn’t inherited his Scrooge-like ways?

Anyway, what made Kerry so special he deserved the most expensive by far funeral of the last eight years? I can think of many others who are far more deserving of my tax dollars. But that’s not the point – the man was a bloody billionaire. Why couldn’t his family pay for his funeral out of his vast fortune/estate? It would still have had all the pomp and ceremony, “grieving” politicians who received political donations, and the presence of TomKat. His passing would have still generated a week’s worth of media stories about the wonderful but tough Kerry.

So, pay up, fuckers.

* Kerry’s son Jamie… sorry, James Packer has an estimated personal fortune of $6.1 billion for the year 2008.

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Families indeed first

Posted by The Editor on Friday 20 October 2006, 8:34 am
Categories: Media, Politics, Religion Tags: Tags: FamilyFirst, JamesPacker, KerryStokes, MediaChanges, parliament, PentecostalChurch, RupertMurdoch, senate, SteveFielding

Family First Senator Steve Fielding has stayed true to the philosophy of his Party and 56,372 supporters by this week voting to pass the government’s media legislation. At last count at least two Australian families and one American family have benefited from the frenzy of media manoeuvres triggered by the bill’s success. Representatives of the Packer, Stokes and Murdoch families have placed calls to Fielding to personally thank him for standing up in Australia’s parliament for their families, telling him that they have felt neglected by Australian lawmakers for too long.