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If 2025 taught us anything, it’s that Australians no longer travel to tick boxes. We are travelling to reconnect with place, with people, and with how travel makes us feel.

These 8 must-read publications made a splash in 2025 and are highly recommended reads for you to upskill over the summer break.

The number of self-made billionaires aged 39 or younger has soared amid the AI boom, tying the all-time record set in 2021. Here are the 40 wealthiest.

A bold pivot to country music led to the most successful concert tour in the genre’s history and helped Cowboy Carter lasso a 10-figure fortune—becoming just the fifth musician to do so.

From Trump frenemyship, the DOGE debacle, unmet self-driving car promises, chainsaws and “Mechahitler” to a $1 trillion pay deal, 2025 was the billionaire’s most chaotic and lucrative year.

The late Bob Oatley purchased Hamilton Island in 2003. Twenty-two years later, the Oatley family have sold the largest island in the Whitsundays archipelago in a deal said to be worth $1.2 billion.

From beauty moguls to data-centre tycoons, fintech founders and the next generation of rising stars, Forbes Australia’s 2025 covers captured the people reshaping industries, fortunes and the future. This is the year in leaders, innovators and boundary-pushers, and the stories behind their defining moments.

Fuelled by AI, prediction markets and online gambling, there are more self-made billionaires under 30 than ever before, 13 up from a previous record of 7.

From rich lists and tech entrepreneurs to the safest countries in the world – here are the 10 stories that Forbes readers loved in 2025.

Chip Wilson was both celebratory and harshly critical after the company announced last week that its CEO is stepping down. But it’s just one small battle in a very public war between Wilson and the company he created.