The BRW Rich 200, 2015 is the 32nd annual survey of the wealthiest people resident in Australia, published online by The Australian Financial Review in June 2015.[1]
In the 2015 list, the net worth of the wealthiest individual, Gina Rinehart, was 14.02 billion.
The BRW Rich Families List was published annually between 2008 and 2015. In every year of its publication the Smorgon family headed the list, with estimated wealth of 2.74 billion in 2015 spread across seven branches of the family.[2] In 2015 the list comprised fifty families with an entry point of 302 million. The families list was last published in 2015.
2015 | Name | Citizenship | Source of wealth | 2014[3] | |||
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Rank | Net worth bn | Rank | Net worth bn | ||||
14.02 | Hancock Prospecting
| 20.01 | |||||
10.76 | Visy Industries
| 7.64 | |||||
10.23 | 5.50 | ||||||
7.84 | Westfield
| 7.16 | |||||
6.89 | [4] | 6.35 | |||||
6.14 | [5] [6] | 6.63 | |||||
6.08 | Crown Resorts | 7.19 | |||||
4.40 | Property (shopping centres) | 4.08 | |||||
2.83 | 5.86 | ||||||
2.65 | Property | 2.73 |
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2015[7] | Name | Citizenship | Source of wealth | 2014[8] | |||
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Rank | Net worth bn | Rank | Net worth bn | ||||
2.74 | Investment | 2.77 | |||||
2.60 | Retail (plumbing) | 2.34 | |||||
2.53 | Investment | 2.45 | |||||
2.46 | Manufacturing (building materials); construction | 2.19 | |||||
2.41 | Property; retail | 2.29 | |||||
2.08 | Retail; property; investment | 2.05 | |||||
1.89 | Investment; property | 1.86 | |||||
1.25 | Building services | 1.08 | |||||
1.20 | Tenix
| 1.26 | |||||
1.17 | Resources | 1.18 | |||||
2.74 | Investment; property | 1.13 |
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