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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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21/8/18: Ian Malouf at Rose Bay Marina in Sydney. He has sold his Dial a Dump waste business for $577 million today to Bingo Industries and is going to run a superyacht charter platform business called Ahoy Club. John Feder/The Australian.

‘This one is worth celebrating’

A jubilant Ian Malouf is ready to party after the $577m sale of a business he started as one man and a truck back in 1984.

John Stensholt

Wealth

Flemington Races. Race 3. jockey, Craig Newitt speaks to Jonathan Munz after riding Roubechon in the Antler Luggage Handicap.

Munz turns tap on $1.7bn play

Jonathan Munz and his family have made $1.7bn from their 30-year involvement with plumbing supplies outfit Reliance.

John Stensholt

exclusiveMedia

NBL owner Larry Kestelman and luxury yacht Vegas. Pic by Luke Marsden.

Time for Nine to give NBL top billing

National Basketball League owner Larry Kestelman has implored Nine Entertainment Co to move the sport to its main channel.

John Stensholt

Companies

16/08/2018: Barry Lambert, rich lister who has investments in a private hemp company that he has high hopes for, at his house in Colloroy, Sydney.Pic by James Croucher

Lambert seeks hemp funding

Rich lister Barry Lambert’s industrial hemp firm Ecofibre hopes to raise up to $20m from investors ahead of a planned float.

John Stensholt

how the rich investWealth

Tony Perich,billionaire property developer and also one of the nation's biggest dairy cattle owners, poses for a photograph The Australian / Picture David Moir 10/10/2014Tony Perich,billionaire property developer and also one of the nation's biggest dairy cattle owners, poses for a photograph next to a carved granite bull, which sits next to a play park outside his office at the Oran Park developmentThe Australian / Picture David Moir 10/10/2014

Fortune grown in Sydney’s west

Tony Perich has transformed into a billionaire with a portfolio that spans dairy, property and retail.

John Stensholt

Wealth

Stakeholder Bruce Gordon arrives at the Network Ten AGM at Star City Hotel, Pyrmont in Sydney.

Switched on to media revolution

Forget diversifying your portfolio. Media mogul Bruce Gordon sticks to what he knows best when it comes to stock picking.

John Stensholt

Media

Rafael Nadal of Spain in action during his men's singles final match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia at the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament in Melbourne, Australia, 27 January 2019. (AAP Image/Lynn Bobo) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

TV chiefs claim sports-swap win TV chiefs claim sports-swap win

Nine and Seven have both claimed success after the networks swapped major sports for the summer.

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Business

Serbia's Novak Djokovic hits a return against Japan's Kei Nishikori during their men's singles quarter-final match on day ten of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 23, 2019. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP) / -- IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE --

Open season on expanding tennis markets

Tennis Australia has begun negotiating new lucrative deals with global sponsors and is looking to new global broadcast deals.

John Stensholt

HOW THE RICH INVESTWealth

The two eldest daughters of the late iron ore baron Michael Wright, Leonie Baldock (left)and Alexandra Burt (right) leave the WA Supreme Court yesterday (today) with one of their lawyers (middle). Photo: Sonia Kohlbcher

Trio dig up $1bn in royalties

Three publicity-shy WA rich-listers have shared in more than $1bn worth of mining royalties over the past ten years.

John Stensholt

Business

From rags to riches and back to rags within a decade

There would be few in Australian business, if any, who would have had the tumultuous decade Nathan Tinkler has had.

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