The winning skipper of Australia II and Bond’s first wife, Eileen ‘Big Red’ Bond, joined family and friends to farewell the colourful businessman in Perth
Hundreds of mourners gathered in Fremantle, Western Australia, on Friday, for the funeral of controversial businessman Alan Bond, whose tumultuous career made him both the most revered and one of the most hated public figures in Australia.
A boxing kangaroo flag snapped against the legs of one mourner as the 77-year-old entrepreneur, who died in hospital on 5 June following complications from heart surgery, was taken from St Patrick’s Basilica in Fremantle to Fremantle cemetery for a private burial.
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