In February, 1981, Brierley, AMOIL and MIM Holdings begin a joint gold mining operation.
MIM’s major shareholder is ASARCO (US) whose chairman, Barber, is also a director of Chase Manhattan Bank.
South British and New Zealand Insurance merge.
Fletcher and UEB Chairman Papps sell their hotel operations to a Singaporean interest closely associated with the Pritzker family, owners of the Hyatt Hotel chain.
Pritzker family attorney and Hyatt Hotels Director Burton Kanter, who helps arrange the deal, is reportedly an old family friend of Paul Halliwell (the CIA paymaster for the failed bay of Pigs invasion) and has allegedly helped the Pritzker family create tax shelters using the CIA-linked Mercantile Trust and the Castle Bank, allegedly set up by Halliwell for processing funds from Onassis and Hughes operations.
Other alleged clients of these banks include Richard Nixon, Bebe Rebozo, Robert Vesco, and the Teamsters Union.
Brierley allegedly calls a secret March 12, 1981 meeting in Auckland including Jones, Fletcher, Hawkins, Papps and Burton Kanter to discuss transfer of the Fletcher Challenge and UEB hotel operations to the Pritzker family’s Singapore company.
On July 20, 1981, Parsky, Colny, Brierley and Seldon allegedly meet in Sydney with two new members, Kerry Packer and Alan Bond.
Chase Manhattan and Security pacific Bank are supposedly to acquire 60 percent of Packer’s company, with the stock being held in Australia, and 35 percent of Bond’s company, with the stock to be held in Hong Kong.
Gulf Oil, using Brierley, seemingly consolidates its hold on New Zealand’s resources in August 1981.
Cue Energy is launched, with Lawrey and Gunn as principles.
New Zealand Oil and Gas (NZOG) is launched with strategic positions held by Brierley, Jones and Renouf with licenses in PPD 38206 and 38204, both adjacent to Hunt’s Great South Basin discovery.
NZOG also reportedly controls 80 million tons of coal through the Pike River Coal Company.
Brierley-controlled Wellington Gas, Christchurch Gas, Auckland and Hawkes Bay Gas and Dual Fuel Systems (Australasia) dominates the vehicle gas conversion market.
Liquigas Limited, controlled by Shell/BP/Todd and Fletcher Challenge, is created to distribute LP gas.
Australian poet and novelist Judith Wright’s 1981 novel “Cry For the Dead: treats the effects of European colonization on the Aborigines.
Australian filmmaker George Miller scores international success with 1981’s “Road Warrior,” a nightmare vision of post-apocalyptic Australia.
