Financial Review Rich List 2019

The Financial Review Rich List 2019 is the 36th^{[note a]} 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 A$15.77 billion; while the net worth of the 200th wealthiest individual, Patricia Ilhan, was A$472 million; up from A$387 million in 2018.[2] The combined wealth of the 200 individuals was calculated as A$342 billion; compared with a combined wealth of A$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]

List of individuals

2019[1]		Name	Citizenship	Source of wealth	2018[4]
Rank	Net worth A$ bn				Rank	Net worth A$ bn
1	15.77	Anthony Pratt	Australia	Visy Industries; Pratt Industries	1	12.90
2	13.81	Gina Rinehart	Australia	Hancock Prospecting; investment	3	12.68
3	13.54	Harry Triguboff AO	Australia	Meriton Apartments	2	12.77
4	10.39	Hui Wing Mau	People's Republic of China  Australia[5]	Shimao Property	4	9.09
5	9.75	Scott Farquhar	Australia	Atlassian	11	5.16
6	9.63	Mike Cannon-Brookes	Australia		12	5.16
7	8.57	Sir Frank Lowy AC	Australia	ex-Westfield; property (shopping centres)	5	8.42
8	7.99	Andrew Forrest AO	Australia	Fortescue Metals Group	8	6.10
9	7.17	Ivan Glasenberg	Australia[6]  South Africa   Switzerland[7]	Glencore commodities trading	6	8.32
10	6.60	John Gandel AC	Australia	Property (shopping centres)	7	6.45
11	5.69	Kerry Stokes AC	Australia	Property; Seven West Media; resources	13	4.93
12	5.50	Vivek Chaand Sehgal	Australia	Motherson Sumi Systems	9	5.88
13	4.94	James Packer	Australia	Crown Resorts; Consolidated Media Holdings	10	5.50
14	4.67	Lang Walker	Australia	Walker Corporation (property)	18	3.47
15	4.09	Clive Palmer	Australia	Mineralogy and other mining interests; hospitality	20	2.84
16	4.07	Alan Wilson and family	Australia	Reece Group	16	3.87
17	4.01	Len Ainsworth AM	Australia	Gaming; manufacturing	14	4.02
18	3.62	Lachlan Murdoch	United States  United Kingdom  Australia[8]	Media	n/a	not listed
19	3.61	Bianca Rinehart	Australia	Resources	19	3.28
20	3.31	Richard White	Australia	Technology	44	1.66
21	3.31	Lindsay Fox AC	Australia	Linfox; property	17	3.56
22	3.10	Prudence MacLeod	Australia	News Corporation and Times Newspapers Ltd	n/a	not listed
23	2.90	David Hains	Australia	Investment	21	2.69
24	2.83	Solomon Lew	Australia	Premier Investments; retail	23	2.55
25	2.79	Jack Cowin	Australia	Competitive Foods Australia; investment	24	2.41
26	2.72	Sir Michael Hintze GCSG, AM	Australia  United Kingdom	Retail; investment	22	2.43
27	2.68	Nigel Austin	Australia	Cotton On Group; retail	32	1.96
28	2.62	Angela Bennett	Australia	Mining	27	2.17
29	2.51	John Van Lieshout	Australia	Retail	33	1.92
30	2.72	Tim Roberts	Australia	Ex-Multiplex; investment	73	1.09
31	2.38	Alexandra Burt and Leonie Baldock	Australia	Resources	30	2.08
32	2.37	Betty Klimenko, Monica Weinberg-Saunders and family	Australia	Property	n/a	not listed
33	2.34	Michael Hodgson	Australia	Property	n/a	not listed
34	2.34	Marc Besen and family	Australia	Retail	25	2.40
35	2.33	Maurice Alter and family	Australia	Retail	26	2.26
36	2.05	Tony Perich and family	Australia	Agriculture; property	37	1.76
37	2.05	Ye Lipei	Australia	Property	29	2.12
38	2.03	David and Vicky Teoh	Australia	Telecommunications	38	1.76
39	2.00	Brett Blundy	Australia	Retail; property; agriculture	41	1.71
40	1.90	Gerry Harvey	Australia	Harvey Norman Holdings	28	2.12
41	1.88	Sam and Andrew Buckeridge and family	Australia	Buckeridge Group of Companies	n/a	not listed
42	1.88	Chris Wallin	Australia	Resources	34	1.79
43	1.86	Terry Snow AM	Australia	Capital Airport Group; property	52	1.46
44	1.84	Bob Ell	Australia	Property	48	1.56
45	1.77	Paul Little AO	Australia	Toll Holdings	50	1.54
46	1.72	Sam Tarascio	Australia	Property	51	1.54
47	1.70	John Kahlbetzer	Australia	Agriculture	42	1.70
48	1.69	Huang Bingwen and family	Australia	Manufacturing	43	1.66
49	1.65	Raymond Barro and family	Australia	Construction	n/a	not listed
50	1.61	Morry Fraid, Zac Freid and family	Australia	Retail; property	46	1.61
51	1.60	Manny Stul and family	Australia	Moose Toys; retail	40	1.73
52	1.58	Alan Rydge	Australia	Rydges Hotels & Resorts; Event Cinemas	49	1.56
53	1.58	Jonathan Munz and family	Australia	Manufacturing	62	1.24
54	1.57	Paul Salteri AM and family	Australia	Investment	57	1.28
55	1.55	John Casella and family	Australia	Agriculture	n/a	not listed
56	1.56	Alex Waislitz	Australia	Investment	54	1.39
57	1.55	Michael Heine and family	Australia	Financial services	58	1.27
58	1.55	Chau Chak Wing	Australia	Property; investments	45	1.63
59	1.49	Yasser, Samer, and Khalil Shahin and family	Australia	Retail	n/a	not listed
60	1.49	Kerr Neilson	Australia	Financial services	35	1.78
61	1.43	Greg Goodman and family	Australia	Goodman Group; property	70	1.15
62	1.42	Bill Roche and Imelda Roche AO	Australia	Retail	146	0.566
63	1.40	Brian Flannery	Australia	Resources	56	1.33
64	1.39	Chris Thomas	Australia	Agriculture	65	1.20
65	1.35	Judith Neilson	Australia	Investment	36	1.77
66	1.34	Nechama Werdiger and family	Australia	Property	87	0.859
67	1.33	Russell Withers and family	Australia	Retail	59	1.27
68	1.32	Bruce Mathieson	Australia	Gaming; investments	66	1.18
69	1.32	Con Makris and family	Australia	Property	60	1.26
70	1.31	Paul Lederer	Australia	Ex-Primo smallgoods; investment	71	1.14
71	1.30	Robert Millner and family	Australia	Washington H. Soul Pattinson; investment	69	1.16
72	1.27	Maha Sinnathamby	Australia	Residential property	64	1.21
73	1.24	Sam Chong	Australia	Resources; hotels	92	0.817
74	1.23	Nick Politis AM	Australia	Retail; property	55	1.35
75	1.21	Peter, Andrew and Lex Greensill	Australia	Financial services; agriculture	n/a	not listed
76	1.20	Ralph Sarich AO	Australia	Investment; property	63	1.23
77	1.19	Peter Gunn	Australia	Logistics; investment; property	67	1.17
78	1.18	Jamuna Gurung and Shesh Ghale	Australia	Melbourne Institute of Technology	81	0.647
79	1.17	Bob Ingham AO	Australia	Ex-Inghams Enterprises	68	1.16
80	1.16	Gretel Packer	Australia	Crown Resorts; investment	61	1.26
81	1.14	Jeff Chapman	Australia	Financial services	72	1.13
82	1.13	Chris Morris	Australia	Computershare; financial services	76	1.02
83	1.12	Nicholas Paspaley and family	Australia	Paspaley Pearls	n/a	not listed
84	1.10	Joseph, Neill, Denis and John Wagner	Australia	Construction; mining services		1.28
85	1.10	Reg and Hazel Rowe	Australia	Super Retail Group; property	75	1.14
86	1.10	Tim Kentley-Klay	Australia	Technology	143	0.58
87	1.09	Sandy Oatley and family	Australia	Agriculture; property; tourism	74	1.07
88	1.06	Justin Hemmes	Australia	Hotels; property	78	0.951
89	1.04	Gordon Fu and family	Australia	Property	88	0.858
90	1.00	Shaun Bonétt	Australia	Precision Group; property	96	0.784
91	1.00	Richard Smith	Australia	Food services	77	0.999
92	0.989	Jack Gance	Australia	Chemist Warehouse; retail	93	0.813
93	0.977	Peter Scanlon and family	Australia	Patrick Corporation	90	0.843
94	0.974	Cyan and Collis Ta'eed and family	Australia	Technology	n/a	not listed
95	0.973	Ervin and Charlotte Vidor	Australia	Property; hotels	79	0.927
96	0.966	Laurie Sutton	Australia	Retail	188	0.432
97	0.960	Mario Verrocchi	Australia	Chemist Warehouse	94	0.803
98	0.957	Raphael Geminder	Australia	Manufacturing	53	0.957
99	0.931	Spiros Alysandratos	Australia	Travel; property	83	0.869
100	0.914	Lloyd Williams	Australia	Property; thoroughbreds	95	0.787
101	0.905	Christian Beck	Australia	Technology	99	0.775
102	0.905	Dick Honan	Australia	Manildra Group	179	0.475
103	0.896	Kie Chie Wong and family	Australia	Investor; resources	n/a	not listed
104	0.890	Chris Mackay	Australia	Financial services	118	0.680
105	0.885	Patrick Grove	Australia	Technology	89	0.850
106	0.885	Andrew Roberts	Australia	Ex-Multiplex; property	91	0.822
107	0.882	Shangjin Lin and family	Australia	Property	n/a	not listed
108	0.871	Joy Chambers-Grundy	Australia	Media	n/a	not listed
109	0.852	Graham Turner	Australia	Flight Centre; hotels	86	0.861
110	0.851	Marnie Lewis-Millar and Shay Lewis-Thorp	Australia	Property	n/a	not listed
111	0.851	Geoff Harris	Australia	Flight Centre; investment	84	0.867
112	0.842	Bill James	Australia	Retail	85	0.863
113	0.834	Rod Spooner and family	Australia	Property	n/a	not listed
114	0.816	John Camilleri and family	Australia	Manufacturing; food production	n/a	not listed
115	0.815	Theo Karedis	Australia	Retail; property	105	0.737
116	0.814	Dale Elphinstone	Australia	Elphinstone Group; mining services	104	0.739
117	0.805	Hamish Douglass	Australia	Financial services	135	0.617
118	0.802	Frank Costa AO and family	Australia	Agriculture	127	0.655
119	0.798	Jonathan Hallinan	Australia	Property	123	0.667
120	0.781	Scott Hutchinson and family	Australia	Construction	n/a	not listed
121	0.781	Naomi Milgrom AO	Australia	Sussan; Sportsgirl; Suzanne Grae	133	0.625
122	0.772	Larry Kestelman	Australia	Dodo Services; telecommunications	97	0.784
123	0.771	Allan Myers AC, QC	Australia	Investment; agriculture	102	0.749
124	0.768	Kevin Seymour and family	Australia	Property	108	0.714
125	0.767	Harry Stamoulis and family	Australia	Manufacturing	125	0.660
126	0.765	Andrew Muir	Australia	The Good Guys	109	0.708
127	0.761	Rod Duke	Australia	Briscoe Group	103	0.744
128	0.758	Jina Chen and Alex Wu	Australia	Healthcare	100	0.756
129	0.755	Iris Lustig-Moar and Max Moar	Australia	Property	106	0.730
130	0.746	Arnold Vitocco	Australia	Property	n/a	not listed
131	0.745	Greg Farrell and family	Australia	Federal Group; gaming	n/a	not listed
132	0.731	Travers Duncan	Australia	Resources; property	110	0.706
133	0.729	John Richards and family	Australia	Waste management	n/a	not listed
134	0.728	Bruce Gordon	Australia	Media	113	0.702
135	0.713	Neil Rae	Australia	Ex-Gull Petroleum	n/a	not listed
136	0.705	Trevor Lee	Australia	Agriculture	130	0.646
137	0.696	Mick Power	Australia	Construction	115	0.689
138	0.682	Paul Fudge	Australia	Media	121	0.673
139	0.679	Jack Bendat AM	Australia	Property	111	0.704
140	0.677	Robert Magid AM	Australia	Property	168	0.513
141	0.672	Tim Gurner	Australia	Property	144	0.574
142	0.672	Ori Allon	Australia	Technology	191	0.413
143	0.671	Max Beck	Australia	Property	124	0.660
144	0.670	Kim McKendrick and family	Australia	Ex-Godfrey Hirst Carpets	126	0.657
145	0.670	John Singleton	Australia	Media; investment; property	161	0.534
146	0.663	Gordon Martin	Australia	Manufacturing	148	0.561
147	0.662	Kerry Harmanis	Australia	Resources	128	0.654
148	0.661	Chris Ellison	Australia	Resources	98	0.783
149	0.660	Mark Creasy	Australia	Resources	114	0.689
150	0.656	Garry Rothwell	Australia	Property	n/a	not listed
151	0.655	Andrew and Michael Buxton	Australia	Property	119	0.676
152	0.655	Terry Peabody	Australia	Ex-Transpacific; investment	131	0.638
153	0.651	Diane Burger and family	Australia	Property	n/a	not listed
154	0.647	Trevor St Baker	Australia	Energy	180	0.472
155	0.646	Nick DiMauro	Australia	Property	136	0.611
156	0.639	Greg Poche	Australia	Ex-StarTrack	129	0.651
157	0.638	John Symond AM	Australia	Ex-Aussie Home Loans	134	0.621
158	0.637	Zig Inge and family	Australia	Property	132	0.631
159	0.623	Ian Malouf	Australia	Waste services	n/a	not listed
160	0.623	Jamie Pherous	Australia	Travel services	141	0.586
161	0.620	Robert Whyte	Australia	Investment	156	0.536
162	0.615	Rhonda Wyllie and family	Australia	Investment	n/a	not listed
163	0.605	Leon Kamenev	Australia	Ex-Menulog; technology	138	0.589
164	0.600	Zeljko Ranogajec	Australia	Gaming	n/a	not listed
165	0.600	George Kepper	Australia	Technology; property	157	0.535
166	0.598	Sunny Ngai and family	Australia	Manufacturing	n/a	not listed
167	0.596	David Paradice	Australia	Financial services	165	0.519
168	0.594	Christina and Tony Quinn	Australia	Darrell Lea; retail	139	0.588
169	0.593	John Higgins	Australia	Investment; services	154	0.549
170	0.584	Arthur Laundy	Australia	Hotels	170	0.506
171	0.583	Diana and Rino Grollo	Australia	Property	158	0.534
172	0.582	Danny Hill	Australia	Property	142	0.580
173	0.575	Graham Tuckwell	Australia	Financial services	149	0.560
174	0.574	Grahame Mapp	Australia	Investment	150	0.559
175	0.567	Paul Blackburne	Australia	Property	152	0.553
176	0.564	Nigel Satterley	Australia	Satterley; property	155	0.546
177	0.560	Tony Wales	Australia	Ex-Computershare; investment	167	0.519
178	0.554	Jerry Schwartz	Australia	Hotels	n/a	not listed
179	0.541	Kevin Maloney	Australia	Mining services	160	0.534
180	0.540	Tony Poli	Australia	Resources; property	162	0.529
181	0.538	Owen Kerr	Australia	Financial services	182	0.459
182	0.530	Stephen Ring and family	Australia	Ex-Swisse	n/a	not listed
183	0.523	Hilton Nathanson	Australia	Financial services	163	0.527
184	0.520	Seumas Dawes	Australia	Financial services	172	0.503
185	0.517	Will Vicars	Australia	Financial services	164	0.527
186	0.514	Anthony Hall	Australia	Technology	n/a	not listed
187	0.512	Andrew Abercrombie	Australia	Financial services	153	0.549
188	0.506	Peter Hughes and family	Australia	Agriculture	175	0.491
189	0.503	Michael Boyd	Australia	Sonic Healthcare	169	0.511
190	0.500	Ian Roberts	Australia	Healthcare	166	0.519
191	0.491	Peter Cooper	Australia	Financial services	173	0.499
192	0.491	Greg Coffey	Australia	Financial services	177	0.486
193	0.489	Neville Bertalli	Australia	Retail	n/a	not listed
194	0.487	Nick Molnar	Australia	Afterpay	n/a	not listed
195	0.487	Anthony Eisen	Australia		n/a	not listed
196	0.486	Tobias Pearce and Kayla Itsines	Australia	Technology	n/a	not listed
197	0.485	Alan and Irene Messer	Australia	Healthcare	n/a	not listed
198	0.479	Steven Kalmin	Australia	Glencore	151	0.479
199	0.479	Rod Jones	Australia	Navitas Group	176	0.450
200	0.472	Patricia Ilhan	Australia	Crazy John's	194	0.407

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

See also

• Financial Review Rich List
• Forbes Asia list of Australians by net worth

Notes

^[note a] : By calculation, the 2019 list is the 36th edition published, despite the reference by Nine Entertainment that the list is the 37th edition published.[2]

References

1. Bailey, Michael (30 May 2019). "Australia's 200 richest people revealed". The Australian Financial Review. Nine Publishing. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
2. "The Australian Financial Review Rich List Reveals Wealthiest 200". Nine Entertainment. 30 May 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
3. Janda, Michael (31 May 2019). "Australia's wealthiest have become 50 times richer in my lifetime". ABC News. Australia. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
4. Stensholt, John (25 May 2018). "2018 AFR Rich List: Who are Australia's richest people?". The Australian Financial Review. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
5. Chancellor, Jonathan (22 May 2013). "Billionaire property developer Hui Wing Mau the highest debutant on BRW Rich List". SmartCompany. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
6. Wen, Philip (26 May 2011). "Mystery billionaire emerges from corporate shadows". Executive Style. Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
7. Glasenberg, Ivan (5 May 2013). "Letztlich macht es keine Differenz, ob Ihr Vermögen eine Milliarde beträgt oder sechs". SonntagsZeitung (Interview) (in German). Interviewed by Martin Spieler. Archived from the original on 6 May 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
8. Jukes, Peter (8 August 2012). The Fall of the House of Murdoch: Fourteen Days That Ended a Media Dynasty. London: Unbound (published 2012). ISBN 978-1-908717-43-6.

External links

• "Financial Review Rich List". The Australian Financial Review. 2019.