Forbes list of Australia's 50 richest people 2018

The Forbes list of Australia's 50 richest people is the annual survey of the fifty wealthiest people resident in Australia, published by Forbes Asia in January 2018.

The net worth of the wealthiest individual, Gina Rinehart, was estimated to be US$17.40 billion.

List of individuals[edit]

The following is the list of Australia's 50 richest people for the year of 2018.

2018^[1]		Name	Citizenship	Source of wealth	2017^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]
Rank	Net worth US$ bn	Name	Citizenship	Source of wealth	Rank	Net worth US$ bn
1	17.40	Gina Rinehart	Australia	Hancock Prospecting; investment	1	14.80
2		Harry Triguboff	Australia	Meriton Apartments	2	9.90
3		Anthony Pratt	Australia	Visy Industries; Pratt Industries	3	5.80
4		Frank Lowy	Australia	Ex-Westfield; property	4	5.70
5		Mike Cannon-Brookes	Australia	Atlassian	10	3.40
5		Scott Farquhar	Australia	Atlassian	10	3.40
7		Andrew Forrest	Australia	Fortescue Metals Group	6	4.40
8		John Gandel	Australia	Property (shopping centres)	7	4.10
9		James Packer	Australia	Crown Resorts; Consolidated Media Holdings	8	3.70
10		Lindsay Fox	Australia	Linfox	9	3.50
11		Bianca Rinehart, John Hancock, Ginia Rinehart and Hope Welker	Australia	Resources	5	5.00
12		Kerry Stokes	Australia	Property; Seven West Media; resources	14	2.60
13		Sir Michael Hintze	Australia United Kingdom	Retail; investment	17
14		Alan Wilson and family	Australia	Reece Group; retail	13
15		Lang Walker	Australia	Walker Corporation (property)	16
16		Fiona Geminder	Australia	Manufacturing; investment	12
17		Richard White	Australia	WiseTech Global	32
18		Maurice Alter	Australia	Property (shopping centres)	20
19		David Hains	Australia	Investment	19
20		Clive Palmer	Australia	Mineralogy and other mining interests; hospitality	n/a	not listed
21		Heloise Waislitz	Australia	Manufacturing; investment	18
22		Tony and Ron Perich	Australia	Investment	21
23		Jack Cowin	Australia	Competitive Foods Australia; investment	22
24		Angela Bennett	Australia	Resources	23	1.70
25		David Teoh	Australia	Telecommunications	29
26		Gretel Packer	Australia	Crown Resorts; investment
27		Nigel Austin	Australia	Cotton On Group; retail
28		Solomon Lew	Australia	Premier Investments; retail	30
29		Brett Blundy	Australia	Retail; agribusiness	33
30		Bob Ell	Australia	Property development	28
31		John van Lieshout	Australia	Real estate
32		Gerry Harvey	Australia	Harvey Norman; retail	25
33		Manny Stul	Australia	Retail; toys	27	1.40
34		Kerr Neilson	Australia	Financial services	24
	1.00	Sam Tarascio^[6]	Australia	Real estate
36		Terry Snow	Australia	Capital Airport Group; property development	n/a	not listed
37		Judith Neilson	Australia	Investment	26
38		Alan Rydge	Australia	Rydges Hotels & Resorts
39		Maha Sinnathamby	Australia	Real estate
40		Paul Little	Australia	Logistics; real estate
41		Chris Wallin	Australia	Mining
42		Len Ainsworth	Australia	Gaming; manufacturing	31
43		Bruce Mathieson	Australia	Hotels
44		Con Makris	Australia	Real estate
45		Russ Withers and family of the late Beverley Barlow	Australia	7-Eleven Australia
46		Ralph Sarich	Australia	Real estate
47		Richard Smith	Australia	Food distribution
48		John Kahlbetzer	Australia	Agriculture
49		Christopher Morris	Australia	Software; hospitality

Legend
Icon	Description
	Has not changed from the previous year
	Has increased from the previous year
	Has decreased from the previous year

References[edit]

^ "Australia's richest people are $50b richer since last year". www.9news.com.au. 24 May 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
^ "Australia's Richest 2017: Country's Wealthiest Continue Mining For Dollars". Forbes Asia. 1 November 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
^ "Gina Rinehart tops Forbes Australia Rich List with $21.5b". The Sydney Morning Herald. AAP. 2 November 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
^ Froelicher, Christian (23 January 2018). "Rich and counting: Australia's 33 billionaires". SBS World News. Australia. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
^ "Nocookies". The Australian. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
^ "Sam Tarascio". Forbes. 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2018.

[1] "Australia's richest people are $50b richer since last year". www.9news.com.au. 24 May 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2023.

[Forbes2017-2] "Australia's Richest 2017: Country's Wealthiest Continue Mining For Dollars". Forbes Asia. 1 November 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2019.

[SMH2017-3] "Gina Rinehart tops Forbes Australia Rich List with $21.5b". The Sydney Morning Herald. AAP. 2 November 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2019.

[4] Froelicher, Christian (23 January 2018). "Rich and counting: Australia's 33 billionaires". SBS World News. Australia. Retrieved 28 September 2019.

[5] "Nocookies". The Australian. Retrieved 26 June 2017.

[forbesprofilesamtarascio-6] "Sam Tarascio". Forbes. 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2018.

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