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Title

Why we should worry about Kerry Stokes

Author(s)

Given, Jock

Abstract

There's a lot of advice being handed out on behalf of others. Consumers have apparently been short-changed because senior executives in the Australian media business have been spending too much time on this massive litigation when they should have been thinking about their products, prices and customers. Seven's minority shareholders have apparently been duped into squandering millions of dollars on their chairman's personal vendetta. Taxpayers will foot a large part of the legal bills because of the tax deductibility of these expenses. Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock and others are reported to be in favour of giving judges greater powers to force big companies to settle disputes like these through privately-funded arbitration instead of publicly-funded courts. This case is about many things but at its core, it is about access to the infrastructure of the information age. [Introduction]

Publication type

Newspaper article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Institute for Social Research

Source

ABC News, 28 July 2007

Publication year

2007

Keyword(s)

Australia;  Broadcasting;  Business;  Communication;  Economics;  Finance;  Media;  News Limited;  Stokes, Kerry, 1940-

Publisher

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Publisher URL

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/28/1990892.htm