The 2022 List
Featured
Rich Lister Nick Politis tops up stake in Eagers Automotive
Car dealerships in Canberra previously owned by Mr Politis give Eagers a foothold in the ACT, where electric vehicle sales are rising faster.
- Simon Evans
The billionaire who is happy to pay more tax than he should
Rich Lister Grant Petty credits his humble upbringing for shaping his success in a country that is too focused on rule followers wearing the right suit.
- Julie-anne Sprague
Why Judith Neilson took back her journo institute
The billionaire lost her conduit to the board of the journalism funder, and its independent directors soon departed.
- Updated
- Michael Bailey
Judith Neilson takes back her journalism institute
The independent board of the billionaire’s $100 million fund supporting journalism is set to be wound up.
- Michael Bailey
These Rich Listers just lost billions
The nation’s wealthiest people have lost more than $11 billion in value this week, led by iron ore magnates Gina Rinehart and Andrew Forrest and tech duo Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar.
- Julie-anne Sprague and Michael Bailey
Featured
Sam Arnaout makes a splash in Newcastle on the QT
It seemed like a gamble at the time, but Sam Arnaout’s East End development in Newcastle is paying off big time.
- Martin Kelly
- Exclusive
- Biotech
Rich Lister Bastas snares asset from failed biotech iQ Group
A $1.2 million yacht acquired by the controversial life-science outfit is also to be sold to undisclosed buyers.
- Carrie LaFrenz and Liam Walsh
Rich Lister Travers Duncan dies at 89
The engineer became a coal mining king in NSW, and later tussled with that state’s ICAC.
- Michael Bailey
These Rich Listers are changing the way they invest
They are favouring mining investments exposed to the shift towards green energy and are focusing on companies turning a profit rather than promising blue-sky.
- Jonathan Shapiro, Julie-anne Sprague and James Thomson
The panel beater who became a billionaire ‘place maker’
Sam Arnaout was just looking to buy himself a wage, but a stroke of luck set him on the path to a $1.89 billion property fortune.
- Michael Bailey
May
- No.192
- Web culture
The high school dropout who built an audio empire lands on Rich List
Peter Freedman’s counterintuitive strategy to manufacture his Rode audio products in Australia rather than China has ranked him among Australia’s 200 most wealthy people.
- Michael Bailey
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Rich List ups and downs snapshot of a turbulent era
Australia’s wealthiest people are a snapshot of the same economic ups and downs as the rest of us in this turbulent and inflationary post-pandemic era.
- The AFR View
Total Rich List wealth soars past half a trillion dollars
With 137 billionaires on the list, it’s a record year for wealth creation as the gap widens between the top of the table and the rest.
- Julie-anne Sprague and Michael Bailey
From blood and guts to crypto: inside the Smorgon family office
The fourth generation of the Australian dynasty is keeping the disruptive entrepreneurial spirit alive.
- Jessica Sier
The one thing Australia’s rich families find hardest to do
When it comes to transferring a lot of money between generations, there are so many ways to get it wrong.
- Neil Chenoweth
- No.134
- Rich Listers
How the $1b Ferguson brothers plan to keep winning the crypto race
An instinct for cryptocurrencies has helped tech bros James and Robbie build a company that has Disney and Marvel among its customers.
- Julie-anne Sprague
This year’s 13 new Rich Listers include a 25-year-old uni dropout
There’s a new wave of wealth entering the Rich List. Of the 13 new entrants, seven are aged 40 or under.
- Julie-anne Sprague and Michael Bailey
- No.175
- Other Passions
How meditation helped this Rich Lister decide to sell a $3.1b company
West Australian mining entrepreneur Kerry Harmanis has been practising the calming technique since the 1970s.
- Julie-anne Sprague
How a $28m exploration minnow lured this Rich Lister out of retirement
Kerry Harmanis had Frank Lowy-style timing when he sold Jubilee Mines for $3.1 billion in 2007, thanks to instinct honed by meditation. But now he’s back in the thick of it.
- Julie-anne Sprague
How 10-minute grocery deliverer Milkrun became an overnight success
There’s a lot riding on founder Dany Milham’s shoulders. But this 31-year-old has been here before.
- Yolanda Redrup
He started in a Pratt factory. Now he’s a Rich List billionaire
It took patience, a passion for property and a lot of petrol-pumping for Melbourne entrepreneur Nick Andrianakos to rise to the Financial Review Rich List.
- Michael Bailey
- No.139
- Pharmaceuticals
‘A deal I haven’t done’ gets this new Rich Lister out of bed each day
Dennis Bastas, co-founder, chief executive and chairman of Arrotex Pharmaceuticals, prefers pre-empting a challenge to trying to exploit an opportunity.
- Carrie LaFrenz
Petrol king goes shopping with Adelaide mall deal
Rich Lister Nick Andrianakos’s first investment into a shopping centre comes almost half a century after the Greek migrant bought his first petrol station in 1973, going on to create the Milemaker chain of fuel outlets.
- Nick Lenaghan
April
- Exclusive
- Venture capital
Canva takes hit as investor slashes value of shares by 33pc
The US tech sell-off is starting to hit Australia’s biggest private tech names, as one of the graphic design giant’s newest backers rethinks its value.
- Michael Bailey
March
Rich Lister Terry Snow backs founders who’ve lived their problems
A new grants program has backed social entrepreneurs motivated by their own adversity and hardships.
- Michael Bailey
Rich Lister Jack Cowin’s v2food expands into plant-based ‘chicken’
Chief executive Nick Hazell rejects squawks from livestock producers over labelling as the plant-based “meat” group holds prices steady despite raw material inputs rising as much as 15 per cent.
- Simon Evans
Where are Australia’s self-made billionaire women?
Australia’s richest woman, Gina Rinehart, has $30.7 billion to her name. We asked three women what that tells them about wealth creation in Australia.
- Lucy Dean
The nation’s 50 richest women revealed
Their collective wealth has jumped $7.4 billion as technology entrepreneurs, led by Canva’s Melanie Perkins, climb the Rich Women rankings.
- Julie-anne Sprague and Michael Bailey
- Exclusive
- Defence
Why Gina Rinehart wants Peter Dutton to get a bigger budget
Australia is not spending nearly enough on its defence, says the country’s richest person.
- Julie-anne Sprague
February
How Mike Cannon-Brookes invests
The Atlassian founder’s portfolio has morphed from helping software developers to saving the world, including stakes in Sun Cable, Genex, Brighte and Melior.
- Updated
- Michael Bailey
