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A billionaire's plan to turbo-charge his private city

A billionaire's plan to turbo-charge his private city

Rich Lister Maha Sinnathamby survived financial ruin to build Australia's biggest private city. But the 80-year-old is far from done.

James ThomsonColumnist

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Standing up here on level 10, you can almost believe you’re in a real-life version of the video game SimCity.

There’s the hospital, the university campus and the train station on the edge of the city centre.

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James Thomson
James ThomsonColumnistJames Thomson is senior Chanticleer columnist based in Melbourne. He was the Companies editor and editor of BRW Magazine. Connect with James on Twitter. Email James at j.thomson@afr.com

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