The List: Australia’s Richest 250 of 2025
Welcome to The List for 2025. The biggest annual study of Australia’s 250 wealthiest people across the country.
Richest 250
Where the rich live: Australia’s wealthiest postcodes
Plenty of billionaires live around the suburbs on Sydney harbour. But the leafy suburb that boasts the most wealthy people has set plenty of records in recent years.
The 50 names who just missed the Richest 250 list
The cut-off to make The List is now a record $635m, so plenty of big names and quiet achievers with business empires just missed qualifying this year. See who nearly made it.
Toy story: ‘We’re having too much fun to sell’
From a background as a Polish immigrant to owning a $1.3bn toy empire, Manny Stul and stepson Paul Solomon say they have bigger plans on the horizon as they knock back offers to sell.
Saint to sinner? Or just a migrant kid who can now afford a jet
Laurence Escalante could have stayed a Christian computer game maker and treasurer of his local church chapter. Failure led him instead to a $4bn online casino fortune and notoriety, but he swears he’s no sinner | WATCH
Meet the next gen of Australia’s richest families
Four heirs to some of Australia’s most private family offices reveal the challenges of managing the fortunes and taking over the empires built by their super successful parents.
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Top 29 richest women in Australia revealed
Meet the women in control of $127bn across the country from fashion to tech and two new sisters who have rocketed into this year’s Richest 250.
Little-known investor debuts on The List with $13bn fortune
Australia’s wealthiest new billionaire is a little-known Wall Street success story who loves his NRL Cronulla Sharks. Meet the 19 debutantes on The List 2025.
From the brink of bankruptcy to $2.45bn and beyond
Every morning, the man who built Australia’s most valuable network of data centres reminds himself of two key moments: when he was poor, and his company’s near-death.
The start-up star worth $1bn who is starting from scratch again
It was a classic exit. Build a company from scratch, get spectacular growth and sell out for billions all before turning 40. But Sam Kroonenburg’s story comes with a twist.
Boom: One contentious name enters list of top 10 richest Australians
Australia’s 10 wealthiest people are worth a cool $250bn combined, with the first appearance of a controversy-plagued magnate on this year’s The List – Richest 250.
‘It’s terrific’: James Packer’s first good year in a long time
After a tumultuous time, James Packer says he’s back on the front foot with new tech, property and film investments boosting his wealth on The List – Richest 250.
Rough Dymonds: the quiet $765m oil giant built on family values
From mixing oils on a kitchen stove and doing deliveries by wheelbarrow, getting their hands dirty for nearly 100 years has finally paid off for the Dymond family who make their Richest 250 debut.
Bush billionaires: ‘don’t say we’re rich, we’re just battlers’
Wes Maas and Roger Fletcher are collectively worth about $2bn. They also work just a few minutes apart in Dubbo where they have built lucrative firms from the ground up.
The ties that bind: lessons in family wealth well learnt
With their sights set on social good, these second generation family company executives discuss succession plans and using prosperity to drive sustainability, innovation and philanthropy.
The phone call that turned a dreamer into a billionaire
Vikas Rambal’s first business ended in legendary acrimony, the second faltered and his third was shelved as a fantasy. Now worth $4.8bn, this is a story of keeping the dream alive.
Nation’s youngest billionaire heads for the straight and narrow
Yes, 29-year-old billionaire Ed Craven now takes more in traditional currency than crypto, but it’s not like he’s losing his edge, or his ambition.
‘Dealing with my mother is not easy’: John Hancock unplugged
Gina Rinehart’s son unloads about the bitter battles within Australia’s richest family, the ‘non-existent’ relationship with his mother and how some of her investments are ‘toilet flushes’.
Stokes family joins James Packer in new tech play
Media mogul Kerry Stokes and fellow billionaire James Packer will bankroll the AI ambitions of American technology entrepreneur Daniel Nadler.
The 10 billionaires who could solve the housing crisis
At least a dozen members of the Richest 250 control hundreds of thousands of housing lots across the country. So where are all the houses?
Inherited wealth a ‘scar’: why $600m tech king is giving it away
When Bruce Buchannan debuts on The Richest 250 list with over $600m to his name, it’s an accolade that won’t sit comfortably with the self-made millionaire who prefers the nitty gritty.
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