Editing Frank Packer (section)

==Career==
In 1923, Packer became a cadet journalist on his father's paper, the ''[[Daily Guardian (Sydney)|Daily Guardian]]''.<ref name="conley" /> Four years later, he was a director of the company. In 1933, Packer started ''[[The Australian Women's Weekly]]'' and then transformed ''[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|The Daily Telegraph]]'' into one of Australia's leading newspapers.

Packer inherited his media interests on his father's death in 1934. In 1936, he joined with [[Ted Theodore]]'s Sydney Newspapers and Associated Newspapers to form [[Australian Consolidated Press]].<ref name="henningham">{{cite book|last=Henningham|first=J.|title=Institutions in Australian Society|year=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=South Melbourne, Victoria|isbn=0-19-551050-X|pages=282}}</ref> He was chairman of ACP from 1936 until 1974.

When television was introduced to Australia in 1956, Packer, along with the other major newspaper publishers ([[John Fairfax|Fairfax]], [[The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd|HWT]] and [[The Age|David Syme]]), became a significant television network shareholder under the federal government's "dual formula", which allowed each capital city to have two commercial networks and one [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]].<ref name="henningham" />  He launched the first Australian station to broadcast a regular schedule, [[TCN]] in Sydney, which became the nucleus of the [[Nine Network]].

The Packer media empire was known for its conservative leanings, and was a strong backer of long-serving [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] [[Robert Menzies]].{{citation needed|date = December 2021}}

Packer was a keen yachtsman, boxer, golfer and polo player. He was on the [[Australian Jockey Club]]'s committee for 12 years and won the [[Caulfield Cup]] with his horse Columnist. He was also chairman of a syndicate that built the yachts ''Gretel'' and ''[[Gretel II]]'' to challenge for the [[America's Cup]] in 1962 and 1970.

In 1972, Sir Frank Packer sold his newspaper flagship, ''The Daily Telegraph'', to [[Rupert Murdoch]].

In 1992, journalist [[Max Walsh]] told the House of Representatives Select Committee on the Print Media that Frank Packer had exerted undue newsroom influence. "Sir Frank was knee-deep in [the] editorial policy of the ''Telegraph''", Walsh said.<ref>House of Representatives Select Committee on the Print Media 1992, ''News and Fair Facts: The Australian Print Media Industry'', Report, AGPS, Canberra, p. 263</ref>