Lindsay Fox

He was educated at Melbourne High School, but was asked to leave during Year 10, at age 16, due to his lack of academic interest.

[1] For many of his earlier years, Fox played Australian rules football with moderate success.

In 2006, he made an unsuccessful bid for the development of the neighboring Triangle Site on St Kilda's foreshore.

In the late 1990s he attempted to claim the public beach area in front of his holiday home as a private helipad for his helicopter and to build a high security compound for himself and his family.

[9] Fox has been in dispute with the local council of his Toorak mansion by attempting to have the heritage listing that applies to all homes in the street removed from his property.

[13] In 2008, Fox was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC), in recognition of his continued service to the transport and logistics industries, to business through the development and promotion of youth traineeships, and to the community through a range of philanthropic endeavours.

[1] In 2004 on the ABC TV George Negus Tonight program, Fox's work ethic and business savviness was profiled.

[16] Fox went on to say: "I, traditionally, probably, was brought up in a working-class family where the old man would turn in his grave if he'd thought I'd have voted Liberal.

[1] In an interview with George Negus in August 2004, Fox spoke of the loss of his son: "Well, life is about being up and being down and being able to get up again.