Premiers and billionaires line up to farewell an ad industry giant

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Three former premiers and business magnates were among the mourners who gathered to farewell the media businessman and philanthropist Harold Mitchell.

On the occasion of what would have been his 84th birthday, Melbourne gathered at a state memorial service to farewell “a country kid who made it big”, as the premier put it.

“He was a dynamo,” the transport magnate Lindsay Fox said on his way into Hamer Hall, gripping this reporter by the shoulder. Mitchell gave his time, money, and food to our near neighbour Timor-Leste, even buying Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao his first suit when Timor-Leste was a country in waiting. At the service via video he called Mitchell a “belum boot”, which translates as “a great friend”.

“We have got a new local Chinese restaurant,” Mitchell senior declared.“I sponsored a family from Shanghai to come out and set one up.”

 

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