UOW Journalism: Introduction to Features

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Shadow on the son (pdf)... Being James Packer was never going to be easy, but since the collapse of One.Tel, it's got a whole lot harder. With his father back in control and his own giddy rise to power a distant memory, a question mark lies over the future of the heir to the Packer dynasty. Richard Guilliatt reports.

The young prince's nightmare (pdf).... Richard Guilliatt’s profile of James Packer, Shadow on the son is an intense portrait that uses a folk psychology of family relations – presented here as a naturalised common sense discourse – as a powerful explanatory framework. It draws on traditional models of ruling family dramas with designation of characters by terms such as prince, heir and dynasty.