Jun 19, 2026 – 4.00pmFor the Fox family – one of the richest and most powerful in the country – it’s been a challenging week as sibling rivalry and harsh judgments from inside one of the country’s best-known empires were hung out for all to see.The action started at 5:30pm on Monday evening, as hundreds of staff at Linfox’s headquarters, built alongside the runway of Melbourne’s Essendon Fields airport, were leaving work for the day. It came in the form of an email from Lindsay Fox.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? James EyersSenior ReporterJames Eyers writes on banking, finance, payments, regulation and emerging technologies. Based in Sydney, he is a former legal and investment banking editor at the AFR and has been a business journalist for more than 20 years.Fetching latest articles