# Christopher Skase
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Christopher Charles Skase (18 September 1948 – 5 August 2001) was an Australian businessman who later became one of his country's most wanted fugitives, after his business empire crashed spectacularly and he fled to Majorca, Spain.
== Early life ==
Skase was born into a wealthy Melbourne family. His father was Charles Skase, 1948 winner of the Melbourne Sun-Aria, and prominent on-air personality on radio station 3DB, including his role as star of the live-to-air programme, The Happy Gang, in the 1950s.
03 | Skase | Flying too close to the sun
It’s April 1989 and Christopher Skase is reclining on his private jet, sipping a flute of champagne as he flies home from Hollywood. He's just made a $1.2 billion bid for the MGMUA/United Artists film studio. There’s one small problem though - he doesn’t have the money.
04 | Skase | The Chase for Skase
In June 1993, the Australian Federal Police get a call. Someone from Christopher Skase’s inner sanctum, someone who knows all the ins and outs of his business dealing, who knows exactly where all the bodies are buried, is defecting. But Skase isn’t going down without a fight and he’ll use every tri…
Mark Humphries: why do we love media moguls?
If you weren’t reading the newspapers in Victoria and Queensland in 1980s you could be forgiven for not knowing the name of fallen media mogul Christopher Skase. It's a problem Mark Humphries is trying to solve with a new podcast from ABC Radio National Rewind - Skase Fall of a Tycoon. We dig into …
05 | Skase | In sickness and in health
It’s 1994 and fugitive billionaire tycoon Christopher Skase lies in a Majorcan hospital bed under police guard. A Spanish court has ordered he is well enough to be extradited back to Australia to face corporate crime charges. But Skase is appealing. When the decision finally comes, it’s a shock.
#504: Mark Humphries: What We Can Learn from the Rise & Fall of Business Tycoon Christopher Skase
Mark Humphries is a journalist, author, and commentator known for his deep dives into some of Australia’s most fascinating corporate and cultural stories. In this episode, Mark sits down with him to discuss his new podcast series Skase: Fall of a Tycoon, exploring the rise and fall of Christopher S…
Who was Christopher Skase? (with Mark Humphries)
Those who don’t remember the 1980s would not be familiar with the myth and scandal that surrounded Australia’s most confident, glitzy and wreckless businessman-turned-white-collar- criminal, Christopher Skase. This week, ABC presenter Mark Humphries joins Betoota Talks to discuss our nation’s most…
The time Andrew Denton tried to hire a bounty hunter
In the early 90s, Australia’s most wanted fugitive was Christopher Skase. He was hiding on the Spanish island of Mallorca, to avoid the corporate crime charges that had been piling up against him back in Australia.
In today's episode, Mark Humphries tells Matt about the bizarre attempts to bring S…
John Rothwell AO | Austal
Joining our series for an exclusive & in-depth profile on this episode is highly regarded businessman & entrepreneur, John Rothwell AO - Non-Executive Chair, Founding Director & the driving force behind Austal, the World’s largest aluminium shipbuilding company.
Having established Austal in Perth…
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KNOCK OFF FRIDAY - Matthew Campbell - Brisbane Bears Original - Ahead of the Q-Clash - Friday August 14
Original Brisbane Bear Matthew Campbell joins Knock Off Friday ahead of the QClash to look back on the wild early days of the club. Campbell shares stories from Carrara, playing alongside Warwick Capper, the Christopher Skase era and the excess that came with Brisbane football in the late 1980s. He…
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