Contents

Prologue

1 The Fairfax Family

2 No Respecter of Persons or Parties

3 Goanna, Nifty and the New Tiberius of the Telephone

4 Silly Little Bastard

5 The Shakespearean Tragedy

6 Cultural Misfits

7 Clash of the Moguls

8 The Kingmaker

9 A Grubby Business

10 Powers Play

11 The Trophy Board

12 His Grandest Experiment

13 Musical Chairs

14 Mr Melbourne and Captain Kirk

15 In Their Place

16 The Departed

17 Just a Grocer

18 Gina’s Future

19 Rattled off the Floor

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Index