{"id":150936,"date":"2025-11-24T09:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/150936\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:11:08","slug":"james-packer-calls-daniel-andrews-human-filth-in-podcast-outburst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/150936\/","title":{"rendered":"James Packer calls Daniel Andrews \u2018human filth\u2019 in podcast outburst"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWith three weeks to go Daniel Andrews changes taxes on Crown and rips $50m out of Crown and gives no compensation,\u201d The Australian reported Packer as saying on the podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought that was appalling behaviour. I\u2019m looking forward to seeing Daniel Andrews in person and speaking far more aggressively than I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"FormerFormer Victorian premier Daniel Andrews. Photo \/ ABC<\/p>\n

\u201c \u2026 I think he\u2019s human filth,\u201d he said. \u201cI hope he sues me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crown was sold for US$8.9 billion ($15.8b) to Blackstone in 2022.<\/p>\n

In October it was revealed that Packer was recovering after suffering a serious cardiac episode.<\/p>\n

A representative for the businessman confirmed Packer had a heart scare in May and was hospitalised for two weeks at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Centre.<\/p>\n

He is now resting up at his sprawling and private Argentina polo ranch La Ellerstina where he was joined by his ex-wife Erica and their three children, Indigo, 17, Jackson, 15, and Emmanuelle, 13.<\/p>\n

Packer plans to remain in Argentina until December.<\/p>\n

He is said to be focused on his recovery.<\/p>\n

Sign up to Herald Premium Editor\u2019s Picks<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox every Friday. Editor-in-Chief Murray Kirkness picks the week\u2019s best features, interviews and investigations. Sign up for Herald Premium here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWith three weeks to go Daniel Andrews changes taxes on Crown and rips $50m out of Crown and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[62032,89,13475,138,115,18829,100841,2740,16420,78,14054,111,139,69,32501,100840,3800,14730,100842,76367,7821],"class_list":{"0":"post-150936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-andrews","9":"tag-attack","10":"tag-billionaire","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-calls","13":"tag-daniel","14":"tag-filth","15":"tag-former","16":"tag-human","17":"tag-in","18":"tag-james","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-outburst","23":"tag-packer","24":"tag-podcast","25":"tag-premier","26":"tag-scathing","27":"tag-unleashed","28":"tag-victorian"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}