The Financial Review Rich List 2019 is the 36th annual survey of the 200 wealthiest people resident in Australia, published by The Australian Financial Review on 31 May 2019.[1]
The net worth of the wealthiest individual, Anthony Pratt, was 15.77 billion; while the net worth of the 200th wealthiest individual, Patricia Ilhan, was 472 million; up from 387 million in 2018.[2] The combined wealth of the 200 individuals was calculated as 342 billion; compared with a combined wealth of 6.4 billion in 1984 when the BRW Rich 200 commenced.[3] Twenty-six women were included on the 2019 Rich List, representing 13 percent of the list; up from seventeen in 2018, or 8.5 percent.[3] The list included seventeen debutants.[2]
2019 | Name | Citizenship | Source of wealth | 2018[4] | ||||||||||
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Rank | Net worth bn | Rank | Net worth bn | |||||||||||
15.77 | Visy Industries
| 12.90 | ||||||||||||
13.81 | Hancock Prospecting
| 12.68 | ||||||||||||
13.54 | 12.77 | |||||||||||||
10.39 | [5] | 9.09 | ||||||||||||
9.75 | 5.16 | |||||||||||||
9.63 | 5.16 | |||||||||||||
8.57 | Sir | ex-Westfield; property (shopping centres) | 8.42 | |||||||||||
7.99 | 6.10 | |||||||||||||
7.17 | [6] [7] | 8.32 | ||||||||||||
6.60 | Property (shopping centres) | 6.45 | ||||||||||||
5.69 | Property; Seven West Media; resources | 4.93 | ||||||||||||
5.50 | 5.88 | |||||||||||||
4.94 | Crown Resorts | 5.50 | ||||||||||||
4.67 | Walker Corporation (property) | 3.47 | ||||||||||||
4.09 | Mineralogy and other mining interests; hospitality | 2.84 | ||||||||||||
4.07 | and family | 3.87 | ||||||||||||
4.01 | Gaming; manufacturing | 4.02 | ||||||||||||
3.62 | [8] | Media | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||
3.61 | Resources | 3.28 | ||||||||||||
3.31 | Technology | 1.66 | ||||||||||||
3.31 | Linfox
| 3.56 | ||||||||||||
3.10 | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||||
2.90 | Investment | 2.69 | ||||||||||||
2.83 | Premier Investments
| 2.55 | ||||||||||||
2.79 | Competitive Foods Australia
| 2.41 | ||||||||||||
2.72 | Sir | Retail; investment | 2.43 | |||||||||||
2.68 | Cotton On Group
| 1.96 | ||||||||||||
2.62 | Mining | 2.17 | ||||||||||||
2.51 | Retail | 1.92 | ||||||||||||
2.72 | Ex-Multiplex; investment | 1.09 | ||||||||||||
2.38 | and Leonie Baldock | Resources | 2.08 | |||||||||||
2.37 | , Monica Weinberg-Saunders and family | Property | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||
2.34 | Property | n/a | not listed | |||||||||||
2.34 | and family | Retail | 2.40 | |||||||||||
2.33 | and family | Retail | 2.26 | |||||||||||
2.05 | and family | Agriculture; property | 1.76 | |||||||||||
2.05 | Property | 2.12 | ||||||||||||
2.03 | Telecommunications | 1.76 | ||||||||||||
2.00 | Retail; property; agriculture | 1.71 | ||||||||||||
1.90 | 2.12 | |||||||||||||
1.88 | and family | n/a | not listed | |||||||||||
1.88 | Resources | 1.79 | ||||||||||||
1.86 | Capital Airport Group
| 1.46 | ||||||||||||
1.84 | Property | 1.56 | ||||||||||||
1.77 | 1.54 | |||||||||||||
1.72 | Property | 1.54 | ||||||||||||
1.70 | Agriculture | 1.70 | ||||||||||||
1.69 | and family | Manufacturing | 1.66 | |||||||||||
1.65 | and family | Construction | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||
1.61 | , Zac Freid and family | Retail; property | 1.61 | |||||||||||
1.60 | and family | Moose Toys
| 1.73 | |||||||||||
1.58 | Rydges Hotels & Resorts | 1.56 | ||||||||||||
1.58 | and family | Manufacturing | 1.24 | |||||||||||
1.57 | and family | Investment | 1.28 | |||||||||||
1.55 | and family | Agriculture | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||
1.56 | Investment | 1.39 | ||||||||||||
1.55 | and family | Financial services | 1.27 | |||||||||||
1.55 | Property; investments | 1.63 | ||||||||||||
1.49 | and family | Retail | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||
1.49 | Financial services | 1.78 | ||||||||||||
1.43 | and family | Goodman Group
| 1.15 | |||||||||||
1.42 | and | Retail | 0.566 | |||||||||||
1.40 | Resources | 1.33 | ||||||||||||
1.39 | Agriculture | 1.20 | ||||||||||||
1.35 | Investment | 1.77 | ||||||||||||
1.34 | and family | Property | 0.859 | |||||||||||
1.33 | and family | Retail | 1.27 | |||||||||||
1.32 | Gaming; investments | 1.18 | ||||||||||||
1.32 | and family | Property | 1.26 | |||||||||||
1.31 | Ex-Primo smallgoods; investment | 1.14 | ||||||||||||
1.30 | and family | Washington H. Soul Pattinson
| 1.16 | |||||||||||
1.27 | Residential property | 1.21 | ||||||||||||
1.24 | Resources; hotels | 0.817 | ||||||||||||
1.23 | Retail; property | 1.35 | ||||||||||||
1.21 | Financial services; agriculture | n/a | not listed | |||||||||||
1.20 | Investment; property | 1.23 | ||||||||||||
1.19 | Logistics; investment; property | 1.17 | ||||||||||||
1.18 | and | 0.647 | ||||||||||||
1.17 | 1.16 | |||||||||||||
1.16 | Crown Resorts
| 1.26 | ||||||||||||
1.14 | Financial services | 1.13 | ||||||||||||
1.13 | Computershare
| 1.02 | ||||||||||||
1.12 | and family | n/a | not listed | |||||||||||
1.10 | Construction; mining services | 1.28 | ||||||||||||
1.10 | Super Retail Group
| 1.14 | - | 1.10 | Technology | 0.58 | ||||||||
1.09 | and family | Agriculture; property; tourism | 1.07 | |||||||||||
1.06 | Hotels; property | 0.951 | ||||||||||||
1.04 | and family | Property | 0.858 | |||||||||||
1.00 | Precision Group
| 0.784 | ||||||||||||
1.00 | Food services | 0.999 | ||||||||||||
0.989 | Chemist Warehouse
| 0.813 | ||||||||||||
0.977 | and family | 0.843 | ||||||||||||
0.974 | and family | Technology | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||
0.973 | Property; hotels | 0.927 | ||||||||||||
0.966 | Retail | 0.432 | ||||||||||||
0.960 | 0.803 | |||||||||||||
0.957 | Manufacturing | 0.957 | ||||||||||||
0.931 | Travel; property | 0.869 | ||||||||||||
0.914 | Property; thoroughbreds | 0.787 | ||||||||||||
0.905 | Technology | 0.775 | ||||||||||||
0.905 | 0.475 | |||||||||||||
0.896 | and family | Investor; resources | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||
0.890 | Financial services | 0.680 | ||||||||||||
0.885 | Technology | 0.850 | ||||||||||||
0.885 | Ex-Multiplex; property | 0.822 | ||||||||||||
0.882 | and family | Property | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||
0.871 | Media | n/a | not listed | |||||||||||
0.852 | Flight Centre
| 0.861 | ||||||||||||
0.851 | and Shay Lewis-Thorp | Property | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||
0.851 | Flight Centre
| 0.867 | ||||||||||||
0.842 | Retail | 0.863 | ||||||||||||
0.834 | and family | Property | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||
0.816 | and family | Manufacturing; food production | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||
0.815 | Retail; property | 0.737 | ||||||||||||
0.814 | Elphinstone Group
| 0.739 | ||||||||||||
0.805 | Financial services | 0.617 | ||||||||||||
0.802 | and family | Agriculture | 0.655 | |||||||||||
0.798 | Property | 0.667 | ||||||||||||
0.781 | and family | Construction | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||
0.781 | Sussan
| 0.625 | ||||||||||||
0.772 | Dodo Services
| 0.784 | ||||||||||||
0.771 | Investment; agriculture | 0.749 | ||||||||||||
0.768 | and family | Property | 0.714 | |||||||||||
0.767 | and family | Manufacturing | 0.660 | |||||||||||
0.765 | 0.708 | |||||||||||||
0.761 | 0.744 | |||||||||||||
0.758 | and Alex Wu | Healthcare | 0.756 | |||||||||||
0.755 | and Max Moar | Property | 0.730 | |||||||||||
0.746 | Property | n/a | not listed | |||||||||||
0.745 | and family | Federal Group
| n/a | not listed | ||||||||||
0.731 | Resources; property | 0.706 | ||||||||||||
0.729 | and family | Waste management | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||
0.728 | Media | 0.702 | ||||||||||||
0.713 | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||||
0.705 | Agriculture | 0.646 | ||||||||||||
0.696 | Construction | 0.689 | ||||||||||||
0.682 | Media | 0.673 | ||||||||||||
0.679 | Property | 0.704 | ||||||||||||
0.677 | Property | 0.513 | ||||||||||||
0.672 | Property | 0.574 | ||||||||||||
0.672 | Technology | 0.413 | ||||||||||||
0.671 | Property | 0.660 | ||||||||||||
0.670 | and family | 0.657 | ||||||||||||
0.670 | Media; investment; property | 0.534 | ||||||||||||
0.663 | Manufacturing | 0.561 | ||||||||||||
0.662 | Resources | 0.654 | ||||||||||||
0.661 | Resources | 0.783 | ||||||||||||
0.660 | Resources | 0.689 | ||||||||||||
0.656 | Property | n/a | not listed | |||||||||||
0.655 | Property | 0.676 | ||||||||||||
0.655 | Ex-Transpacific; investment | 0.638 | ||||||||||||
0.651 | and family | Property | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||
0.647 | Energy | 0.472 | ||||||||||||
0.646 | Property | 0.611 | ||||||||||||
0.639 | 0.651 | |||||||||||||
0.638 | 0.621 | |||||||||||||
0.637 | and family | Property | 0.631 | |||||||||||
0.623 | Waste services | n/a | not listed | |||||||||||
0.623 | Travel services | 0.586 | ||||||||||||
0.620 | Investment | 0.536 | ||||||||||||
0.615 | and family | Investment | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||
0.605 | Ex-Menulog; technology | 0.589 | ||||||||||||
0.600 | Gaming | n/a | not listed | |||||||||||
0.600 | Technology; property | 0.535 | ||||||||||||
0.598 | and family | Manufacturing | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||
0.596 | Financial services | 0.519 | ||||||||||||
0.594 | Darrell Lea
| 0.588 | ||||||||||||
0.593 | Investment; services | 0.549 | ||||||||||||
0.584 | Hotels | 0.506 | ||||||||||||
0.583 | Property | 0.534 | ||||||||||||
0.582 | Property | 0.580 | ||||||||||||
0.575 | Financial services | 0.560 | ||||||||||||
0.574 | Investment | 0.559 | ||||||||||||
0.567 | Property | 0.553 | ||||||||||||
0.564 | Satterley
| 0.546 | ||||||||||||
0.560 | Ex-Computershare; investment | 0.519 | ||||||||||||
0.554 | Hotels | n/a | not listed | |||||||||||
0.541 | Mining services | 0.534 | ||||||||||||
0.540 | Resources; property | 0.529 | ||||||||||||
0.538 | Financial services | 0.459 | ||||||||||||
0.530 | and family | n/a | not listed | |||||||||||
0.523 | Financial services | 0.527 | ||||||||||||
0.520 | Financial services | 0.503 | ||||||||||||
0.517 | Financial services | 0.527 | ||||||||||||
0.514 | Technology | n/a | not listed | |||||||||||
0.512 | Financial services | 0.549 | ||||||||||||
0.506 | and family | Agriculture | 0.491 | |||||||||||
0.503 | 0.511 | |||||||||||||
0.500 | Healthcare | 0.519 | ||||||||||||
0.491 | Financial services | 0.499 | ||||||||||||
0.491 | Financial services | 0.486 | ||||||||||||
0.489 | Retail | n/a | not listed | |||||||||||
0.487 | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||||
0.487 | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||||
0.486 | and | Technology | n/a | not listed | ||||||||||
0.485 | Healthcare | n/a | not listed | |||||||||||
0.479 | 0.479 | |||||||||||||
0.479 | 0.450 | |||||||||||||
0.472 | 0.407 |
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