He has casinos throughout Australia, Asia, Europe and is branching into Las Vegas.īut in the end, no matter how big he is on the global stage, whoever sits in the Premier’s office in 1 Treasury Place has enormous control over his empire. Surely, someone as razor-sharp as Lloyd couldn’t have said it as a throwaway line?Īnd why would Packer be keen to be so involved? Packer has surrounded himself with NSW Labor men like Karl Bitar and Mark Arbib … and oh my God, he’s backing Daniel Andrews! Was Lloyd Williams sending a direct message from James Packer? But by whispering them into the ear of Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews with an arm over his shoulder, Williams has released a tidal wave of money to the Labor Party.Ī panicked thought occurred to some Liberals. “You should probably know I am on the executive of the Packer estate, and James is going to kick every goal he can for you.” It’s this eye for detail, and that Williams doesn’t do things by accident, that sent some in the Liberal Party into full-blown panic mode this week. Read the memos, and dozens of other Williams company financial records from the 1980s, and you’re left in no doubt that Williams left nothing to chance. While Williams said he could not recall drafting them, he did not dispute their authenticity.Ī senior Hudson Conway source told the Herald Sun at the time: “They’re genuine, that’s for sure.” In early 2000, in a sit-down with Williams, the Herald Sun showed him the internal company memos and documents. The memos - part of a sheaf of Williams company documents seen by the Herald Sun - provide an insight into how Williams did business and juggled his web of joint businesses with Ron Walker, headlined by the company Hudson Conway, and his private side interests. It’s as though the future casino king is watching the use of his words as closely as he watched the fortune he was building. The orders of a man with an eye for detail. Peat Marwick or Ron Walker, you are to say that it was a mistake made in our office and it was always supposed to be in Davidson Hughes or Hudson Conway and for some reason or another it just got put into Tashinny Park and not picked up.” “If anyone asks you about Park Street, i.e. That same day, this memo landed on Ms Topp’s desk: You will have to rewrite the books and the cheque butts for the last six months or so, as I don’t want it to be shown at all.’’ “Apportion it to Charnwood Crescent, Park Street, etc. I don’t want any labour at all charged to Walsh St.
“From the time we put the above property (226 Walsh St, South Yarra) into our accounts.
IT’S July 10, 1981, and Lloyd Williams is firing memos at his secretary Margot Topp:
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