Wednesday, April 2, 2008

How The Landeryou Files will work

Web-surfers arriving here for the very first time may want to know how The Landeryou Files will work.

It will be pretty simple. A group of us are dipping into our pockets to purchase all the stories we can find on Landeryou from The Australian Financial Review, The Australian, The Age and the Herald-Sun from the online archive services. We are going to post the lot on this site over the next few weeks to create a one-stop-shop for reputable and reliable information on Landeryou's decline and fall. There is plenty to edit up, so please be patient!

As new stories on Landeryou appear in these papers, they will be added to the site.

The Landeryou Files will be simple, informative and credible.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

A taste of things to come in The Landeryou Files: How it used to be for Landeryou and Lew

The Age, Saturday 31 August 1996

Letters to the Editor

Thank you for your article on Solomon Lew. It was refreshing to read an account that is not heavy with bias, envy and prejudice.


As Michael Gawenda's account made clear, Lew is an Australian success story. From humble first-generation migrant beginnings, he has risen to the top rank of business and was a board member of the Reserve Bank of Australia.

The article shows him to be entrepreneurial, a good employer and an astute business operator who is in for the long haul rather than opportunistic, short-term business plays. It is a story which should be celebrated and emulated.

Instead, Lew has been subjected to our familiar tall poppy treatment. If shooting down and denigrating the successful were to be an Olympic sport, it would be Gold! Gold! Gold! to Australia.

Andrew Landeryou
Southgate