Article: NSW:The Big Fella: Australia's corporate DNA


AAP General News (Australia)
07-31-2009
NSW:The Big Fella: Australia's corporate DNA

By John Macleay

SYDNEY, AAP - They'll always be a Liberal Party if there's a BHP was a tuneful satire
of the 50s and 60s.

But the connections between what is now the world's biggest mining company and the
political and business establishment is much more prosaic than that.

Journalists Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin have laid bare the story of the company
they say embodies the history of Australia's corporate DNA in a new book.

In The Big Fella - The Rise and Rise of BHP Billiton, the two chart the history of
the two separate companies - The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd, or BHP, and South
...

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