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Simon Collins

Simon Collins

31 March 2018

9:00 AM

31 March 2018

9:00 AM

Like many Australians I was greatly affected by the news that James Packer has decided he is not well enough to continue in his role of chairman of Crown Resorts. Depression is a terrible thing for anyone to deal with, but it takes a particular toll on those who, due to their enormous personal wealth, cannot rely on the need to go out and earn a living to distract them from their problems, and who must instead seek some sort of respite by traveling – often in the miserable isolation of a private jet –between their various enormous homes around...

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