20 Aussie rich kids under 20 and their famous cashed-up families

They are the cherished and privileged young scions of the nation’s richest and most privacy-obsessed families — future stars of industry, finance, science, politics and art with a pedigree for success. INTERACTIVE: Meet the rich kids

• A list: Australia’s most bankable household names
• B list: Busy and bold who dress the part
• C list: Celebrity big names now but not for long
• D list: Desperate stars masquerading as celebrities

Introducing the cherished and privileged young scions of the nation’s richest and most privacy-obsessed families.

Twenty future stars of industry, finance, science, politics and art with a pedigree for success.

Worldly and poised beyond their sweet years, these media-savvy Millennials — aged 18 to 20 — have fast emerged as the “must watch” stars of their generation — photogenic and confident like no generation before them and with the world at their feet.

Some are heirs to billion-dollar fortunes while others have been groomed since birth for leadership roles on the world’s stage.

The offspring of corporate kings Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest, Lindsay Fox, Solomon Lew, Harry Triguboff and Richard Pratt — names that dominate the corporate landscape and continue to shape the nation — were born to great wealth and trust funds designed to protect that wealth for the rest of their days.

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Sydney Forrest with his mother Nicola, father Andrew and sister Sophia at the arrival of ore carrier FMG Nicola in Port Hedland.

When the mining boom that made his father’s $7 billion empire cools, Sydney Forrest, son of Fortescue mining boss Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest, may find himself charged with the task of helping to preserve the planet through the foundation his father established, Minderoo.

It’s a weighty proposition.

While others, like pretty, popular Lala Ryan, stand to have inherit a pub empire.

And then there’s Harvey Tilley, the youngest son of James Packer’s playmate Ben Tilley

Good looking Harvey, newly graduated from high school, is quickly learning that the world could one day be his oyster as it has long been his father’s.

Felix Lee — Son of migrant Chinese property developer Phillip Dong Fang Lee.

Constance Brahimi, eldest daughter of chef Guillaume Brahimi and his ex wife, Sanchia.

A gap year abroad with dad in 2019 promises to be a master class in poker and worldly delights.

As different from each other as are the families that bred them, these scions — not yet 21, commonly regarded as an age of legal entitlement in western culture — have the means, the drive, the talent and the pedigree to change the world.

Originally published as 20 Aussie rich kids under 20 and their famous cashed-up families