Rich Listers

Elon Musk, Gina Rinehart and Larry Ellison with their ballooning fortunes are among the winners of 2025.

Billionaires

Billionaires’ boom: World’s richest got $3.3 trillion richer in 2025

The world’s 500 richest people added a record amount to their fortunes last year. Here are some of the year’s biggest winners and losers.

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Dylan Sloan and Jack Witzig

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Billionaires

Uni drop-out is world’s youngest self-made billionaire after $3b Wall Street deal

Shayne Coplan is riding high after the owner of the New York Stock Exchange said it would invest in his prediction betting site.

October 9, 2025
Tom Maloney

A man holds a cardboard cutout of Elon Musk at a UK protest.

Opinion
Elon Musk

Read it and weep: Elon Musk’s obscene wealth breaks new ground

The tech oligarchs of the world are all getting richer by the minute thanks to the world of AI – “Accelerated Income”. But Elon Musk is in a league of his own.

October 2, 2025
Elizabeth Knight

Rich lister’s luxury Noosa home gutted by fire

A home owned by a former mining magnate on one of Noosa’s most prestigious streets has been gutted by fire.

September 22, 2025
Marissa Calligeros

Tech billionaire Scott Farquhar is married to Kim Jackson, a former Hastings infrastructure dealmaker who has plied some of the family’s wealth into Australian airports.

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Business investment

Australia’s richest families plot country’s tech reboot at private summit

They control billions of dollars in wealth. Now some of the nation’s most powerful families have met in a bid to reshape the economy and debate its future.

September 9, 2025
David Swan

The great Australian dream is rapidly drifting out of reach.

Opinion
Property market

Australians are pretty rich but there’s a catch

Australia retained its place as the second-richest country in the world when it comes to median wealth, and our spot of fifth place for average wealth.