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#Ninefairfax Deal End of an Era for Australia’s Media Titans
In 1990, young warwick fairfax’s disastrous bid to privatise john fairfax & sons resulted in the herald and associated interests being lost to the family.
Competition and co-operation. The former may seem an obvious aspect of the Australian media landscape, but it has always gone hand-in-hand with pragmatic co-operation.
Since the 1920s, the Packer and Murdoch media companies have been entwined with the oldest of Australia’s “old media” firms, Fairfax Media, which has its origins in the 1841 endeavours of printer and journalist John Fairfax.