Live: Australia’s Real-Time Rich List
The definitive guide to every billionaire in Australia – updated in real-time every five minutes. See who’s up, who’s down and who’s a new member of the three-comma club.
Who is Australia’s richest person?
Gina Rinehart is Australia’s richest person, with a net worth of $25.6 billion. The Hancock Prospecting executive chairwoman built her fortune on the iron ore deposits of Western Australia first explored by her father, Lang Hancock, and has since expanded into rare earths, gas and cattle.
Who is Australia’s youngest billionaire?
At 30, Ed Craven is Australia’s youngest billionaire. He cofounded Stake.com, the crypto-backed online casino that generated $4.7 billion in gross revenue in 2024, despite being unavailable in the US, UK and much of Europe.
Who is Australia’s oldest billionaire?
Frank Lowy, 95, is Australia’s oldest billionaire. The Holocaust survivor opened his first Sydney shopping centre in 1959 and grew Westfield into one of the world’s largest mall businesses before selling it to Unibail-Rodamco in 2018 for $16 billion.
Who is Australia’s richest tech billionaire?
Mike Cannon-Brookes is Australia’s richest tech billionaire, worth $13 billion. Cannon-Brookes cofounded Atlassian along with Scott Farquhar ($12.6 billion) shortly after graduating from university.
Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht sit just behind at $7.6 billion each. The husband-and-wife team – along with Cameron Adams ($3.8 billion) – built Canva into one of the world’s most valuable private technology companies.
Who is the richest person in the world?
Elon Musk is the richest person in the world – and the first in human history to surpass $1 trillion in personal wealth. SpaceX began trading on the Nasdaq on June 13, 2026, closing at $160.95 per share and implying a market cap of nearly $2.2 trillion for the rocket-maker. Forbes estimates Musk’s net worth at over $900 billion.
Methodology
Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires ranking tracks the daily ups and downs of the Australia’s richest people. The wealth-tracking platform provides ongoing updates on the net worth and ranking of each individual confirmed by Forbes to be a billionaire. The value of individuals’ public holdings are updated every 5 minutes when respective stock markets are open (there will be a 15-minute delay for stock prices). Individuals whose fortunes are significantly tied to private companies will have their net worths updated once a day. Major private companies are adjusted according to an industry- or region-specific market index provided by our partners at FactSet Research Systems when available. Our biggest gainer and biggest loser data compares billionaires’ fortunes to the previous trading day’s market close.
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