
            Power Games is about the making of Modern Australia through the eyes of competing media moguls.In the early 1960, boy publisher Rupert Murdoch receives an invitation from Australias most prominent media family, the Packers, for tennis and cocktails. By the end of the day, Sir Frank Packer, joined by sons Kerry and Clyde, make sport of Murdoch and attempt to run the boy publisher out of town. Little does anyone know the young man will one day be the most powerful media player in the world and hes not about to go home.Spanning 1960 to 1972, Power Games takes us behind the scenes of Australias newspaper and television empires. Inside the Packer family, Sir Frank controls the family business with a mix of generosity and terror. He spearheads the countrys first attempt at the Americas Cup, determined to prove Australia can compete on the world stage. He wines and dines politicians and Presidents, expands his familys fortune and protects it against the latest interloper, young Murdoch.Rupert Murdochs expansion into the Sydney media landscape catches the established players off guard. But their usual tactic of intimidation and exclusion simply do not work on the tenacious Murdoch, who quickly proves he has a vision beyond their grasp.Murdoch starts in the suburbs with a small line of local papers, snaps up the floundering Daily Mirror and engages his own muscle to take on the Packer boys in a bloody street fight. But when the Packers influence over the rich and powerful result in Murdoch being denied a Television license, Murdoch pulls off a coup that has the Packers scrambling to hold their position as number one. While Murdoch sees an opportunity in television, Kerry Packer finds his great love. Kerry begins a journey that will shape Australian TV for generations and put an end to the dominance of newspapers. But, Kerrys vision for the family business sets him at odds with his brother, Clyde.The Packer heirs soon discover there are only one set of keys to the kingdom and their father, Sir Frank, isnt about to hand them over. As the Packers face destruction from within, Murdoch looks beyond Australias shores and sees a world ready for the taking.Power Games takes us into the hearts and minds of the families who have shaped Australias media landscape, reveals their private passions and heartbreaks, their ambitions and failures and the sheer thrill of playing on a big stage in front of the biggest audience they can capture. Visionaries, gamblers and king makers, the men at the centre of Power Games take on the world and win.
    

Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch Story


            
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            Tasmania, Australia---one of the world's most isolated islands. It is rumored that, deep within the wilderness, an ancient species known as the Tasmanian Tiger is alive and breeding. Yet, modern science refuses to believe such a creature now exists, since no witnesses have ever been able to prove it. That is, until zoology student Nina (Mirrah Foulkes), claims she can breach Tasmania's impenetrable forests and confirm the tigers' existence. Driving Nina's quest is one critical piece of proof: a photo of a paw print taken by her sister just before she met with a fatal accident eight years before.In the early 19th century, the murderous convict Alexander Pearce (aka "The Pieman") had broken out of prison twice, and each time he had killed and eaten his fellow escapees. But what Nina doesn't know is that, before he was hung for cannibalism in 1824, he'd spawned a blood line who inherited his taste for human flesh. Soon, Nina and her friends discover that in the wild, as one species may have died out, another has thrived---in the form of the Pieman's descendants. When she sets out with her partner, Matt (Leigh Whannell), his old mate, Jack (Nathan Phillips), and his girlfriend, Rebecca (Melanie Vallejo), their little expedition encounters the island's reigning breed, but one who stands on two legs, not four. The Pieman clan has survived, and their need to feed and breed turns Nina, Matt, Jack and Rebecca into this island's next endangered species.
    

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