The business establishment watched in horror as corporate raiders made a play for Australia’s biggest company, BHP, and prominent newspaper empire, Fairfax, in the 1980s.
It was the transformative decade: radical economic reform, takeover splurges, spectacular busts, the rapid acceleration of Australia’s Asian engagement, and emergence of more companies ready to take on the world.
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