John Elliotts life was a business, sporting and political roller-coaster.
The larger-than-life character, who many Liberals once touted as a future Australias prime minister, built and lost a mighty business empire and led the Carlton football club through good times and bad.
The gravel-voiced and aggressive chain smoker could be offensive, at least to those of a politically correct disposition.
In the late 1980s, when he was federal president of the Liberal party and boss of Elders IXL, Elliott was one of the most prominent and closely watched figures in Australian public life.
John Dorman Elliott, who died on Thursday aged 79, was born in Melbourne on 3 October 1941, and educated at Carey Baptist grammar school and the University of Melbo…
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