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Kerry Stokes

Kerry Stokes 1

Self-Made Man

by Margaret Simons
Hardback
Publication Date: 23/10/2013
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Plucked from an orphanage as an infant, Kerry Stokes grew up in the slums and streets of post-Depression Melbourne with his itinerant, adoptive parents. As a boy he trapped, skinned and sold rabbits to make ends meet, and seemed destined to a life of hardship and poverty. Today Stokes is one of Australia's most successful business moguls, with interests in property, mining, construction equipment and media. He picked the boom in China ahead of the pack, and has forged strong relationships in that country. He is a recipient of Australia's highest civil honour, and in 2013 he was a nominee for Australian of the Year. He owns what is probably the finest private art collection in the country, and has sat on the governing bodies of some of our leading cultural institutions. As the Packer family departs the media and the Murdoch clan tackles damage to its reputation on three continents, Stokes is emerging as the single most influential media proprietor in Australia. Yet Stokes has remained relatively low-profile, and is notoriously private. Mysterious and elusive, Stokes is the archetypal self-made man, driven by the determination to escape his past and the legacy of disadvantage.
But at what cost?
ISBN:
9780670075423
9780670075423
Category:
Biography: business & industry
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
23-10-2013
Publisher:
PENGUIN BOOKS AUSTRALIA
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
352
Dimensions (mm):
241x156x35mm
Weight:
0.62kg
Margaret Simons

Margaret Simons is an award-winning journalist and the author of thirteen books, including a biography of Malcolm Fraser that won the Book of the Year and the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction at the 2011 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. She is the recipient of the 2015 Walkley Award for Social Equity Journalism and has been honoured with several Quill Awards. Simons is an associate professor in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, and a board member of the Public Interest Journalism Foundation.

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I was extremely cross that Margaret Simons had absolutely no contact with Mr Stokes whatsoever and yet wrote a book about his life? No one can know about the life of Mr Stokes unless he tells the biographer himself. Absolutely no one would know his feelings about anything really so this should be classified as fiction. I wonder that he doesn't sue her. I paid good money for nothing.

I admire Mr Stokes and if he wants privacy then so be it. Pity too if the general public didn't know everything about him. It really is none of their business.

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