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John StensholtThe Richest 250 Editor

John Stensholt joined The Australian in July 2018. He writes about Australia’s most successful and wealthy entrepreneurs, and the business of sport.Previously John worked at The Australian Financial Review and BRW, editing the BRW Rich List. He has won Citi Journalism and Australian Sports Commission awards for his corporate and sports business coverage. He won the Keith McDonald Award for Business Journalist of the Year in the 2020 News Awards.

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How the rich investWealth

10/09/2019 TPG Executive Chairman David Teoh arrives at the Federal Court in Melbourne. Picture : David Geraghty , The Australian.

How TPG’s Teoh hit mining gold

Best known as the man behind TPG, reclusive billionaire David Teoh is on a winner in mining.

John Stensholt

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 22: (L-R) LaMelo Ball of the Illawarra Hawks and RJ Hampton of the New Zealand Breakers pose for a portrait during a NBL media opportunity at The Blackman on August 22, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Kelly Defina/Getty Images)

Facebook deal slams NBL into big time

The National Basketball League could soon earn more broadcast revenue outside Australia than from local sources.

John Stensholt

EXCLUSIVEBusiness

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - September 19: Stephen Conroy (CEO of JLL) posing for a portrait with Angie Scarth-Johnson whilst she is bouldering. JLL have provided Scarth-Johnson with a motion-capture climbing suit which analyses her climbing movements to help with her training. (Photo by James Gourley/The Australian)

JLL backs climber’s Olympic bid

JLL has teamed up with Australia’s youngest Olympic hopeful in the global sporting event’s newest discipline.

John Stensholt

Start-upsBusiness

Geoff Harris, co-founder of Flight Centre, and on Tobi Skovron, founder Creative Cubes, pose for a portrait in the Hawthorn office space, Tuesday 17th September 2019. Geoff has invested money into Creative, which has a group of serviced offices and has plans to role the concept out across Melbourne and then around Australia in the future. Picture Stefan Postles

Harris flies into shared space

CreativeCubes has been added to the Flight Centre co-founder’s eclectic mix of investments.

John Stensholt

The Deal

Australian Open Tennis Day 13. Womens singles finals 2014. Li Na vs. Dominika Cibulkova at rod Laver Arena. Li Na wins the first set

Courting the Middle Kingdom

The country’s huge middle class is hungry for sport — and travel — and it’s proving a winner for Tennis Australia.

John Stensholt

white house state dinnerPolitics

Anthony Pratt, Donald Trump, Will Power and Nicole Kidman.

Power and glory for cardboard king

A $2bn plan is set to come true for Australia’s richest person, with the photo op of a life-time.

John Stensholt and Simon Benson

FinanceFinancial Services

18/09/2019 Storm CEO Dave Donaghy and owner Gerry Ryan and at AAMI park in Melbourne. Picture : David Geraghty , The Australian.

Taking home loans by Storm

Melbourne Storm will launch their own branded home loan and personal loan service this week, named My Local Broker.

John Stensholt

Politics

Prime Minister Scott Morrison holds a bilateral meeting with President Donald Trump from the USA at the G7 Summit in Biarritz, France on Sunday, August 25, 2019. Picture: Adam Taylor/PMO

Trump to go with PM to mill

Donald Trump will join Scott Morrison on a visit to Pratt Industries’ new paper recycling mill in Ohio next week.

Cameron Stewart and John Stensholt

Business of sportCompanies

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 16: WSW Head Coach Markus Babbel attends the Western Sydney Wanderers Centre of Football official opening on September 16, 2019 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Brook Mitchell/Getty Images)

Kicking property goals

Western Sydney Wanderers is set to become one of a handful of Aussie sporting clubs to generate commercial revenue streams.

John Stensholt

How the rich investWealth

Philanthropists and recipients of the Visionary Award Eva Besen (L) and Marc Besen during the Melbourne Art Foundation national awards dinner held at NSW Art Gallery in Sydney.

Taste for deals at 95

Soon-to-be-listed HomeCo is just the latest addition to the eclectic holdings of billionaire Marc Besen.

John Stensholt

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