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Not just for the House of Packer, but for the future of Australian business, for politics, for media—indirectly for the culture itself. Everything that Packer would do in the next decade—and not just Packer, but the networks and social ecosystems that fed off the Packer money mine—was about to fall to nothing on this field. It wasn’t only Packer, it was a generation of business idols that was facing annihilation. Rupert Murdoch’s empire was in crisis. Three days earlier, News Corporation’s new finance director, David DeVoe, had told the group’s bankers in London that News could not meet its debt repayments.
There is no doubt if you mix in the right circles, vis a vis making money, not having fun, you will learn a hell of a lot,’ Rivkin observed later. ’ Rivkin was having a fine old time. In 1979, he and Potts joined with Brian Yuill of Spedley Securities to take control of a garment company called Bisley Clothing. The future of menswear, they told shareholders, lay in ‘commodities, futures and money market broking and general investment’. Rivkin had his first brush with regulators when Bisley bought 23 per cent of Country Broadcasting Services, which made him the leading television mogul in Orange and Dubbo, with all the glamour that conjures up.
James Capel now discovered that the broker owned more than fourteen million Oilmet shares in various nominee accounts. Rivkin claimed he had bought them for foreign clients but these clients now declined to pay for them. At the height of the boom the shares had been worth $21 million. Now they were worth a tenth of that sum. James Capel had little legal recourse. Unlike Tim Allen, Rivkin was not going to be forced to pay for the losses. Capel’s London management bit the bullet and bought Rivkin out 37 Packer's Lunch Text 29/6/07 11:11 AM Page 38 PACKER’S LUNCH in December 1987 for what Lakos told Cromie was more than $12 million.
