The Financial Review Rich List 2021 is the 38th annual survey of the 200 wealthiest people resident in Australia, published by the Australian Financial Review on 27 May 2021.
The net worth of the wealthiest individual, Gina Rinehart, was $31.06 billion; while the net worth of the 200th wealthiest individual, Douglas Clarke, was {$590 million; up from $540 million for the 200th individual in 2020. The combined wealth of the 200 individuals was calculated as $479.6 bn, an increase of $55.6 bn on the previous year; compared with a combined wealth of $6.4 bn in 1984 when the BRW Rich 200 commenced. Thirty-nine women were included on the 2021 Rich List, representing 19.5 percent of the list; up from thirty women in 2020, or 12 percent. The list included eighteen debutants.
Rinehart held the mantle of Australia's wealthiest individual between 2011 and 2015; and was also the wealthiest Australian individual in 2020. From 2017 to 2019, Anthony Pratt was Australia's wealthiest individual, ranked fourth in the 2021 Rich List, after Andrew Forrest, Australia's wealthiest individual in 2008, and Mike Cannon-Brookes. Harry Triguboff was Australia's wealthiest individual in 2016, ranked sixth in the 2021 Rich List.
List of individuals 2021NameCitizenshipSource of wealth2020RankNet worth bn Rank Net worth bn 31.06 Hancock Prospecting; investment 28.89 27.25 Fortescue 23.00 20.18 Atlassian 16.93 20.09 and family Visy; Pratt Industries 19.75 20.00 Atlassian 16.69 17.27 Meriton 14.42 13.01 Mineralogy and other mining interests; hospitality 9.18 11.70 Shimao Property 18.06 8.51 Sir ex-Westfield; property 8.30 7.98 and Cliff Obrecht Canva 3.43 7.86 and family Reece Group 4.93 7.39 Glencore commodities trading 4.54 7.18 Property; Seven West Media; resources 6.26 5.80 Property (shopping centres) 5.45 5.72 Crown Resorts; Consolidated Media Holdings 4.69 5.04 and family Gaming; manufacturing 4.42 4.94 Competitive Foods Australia; investment 4.51 4.76 Motherson Sumi Systems 4.63 4.70 Technology 4.10 4.57 Property; investments 4.60 4.48 Walker Corporation (property) 4.27 4.43 Media 3.76 4.37 Premier Investments; retail 3.72 4.13 Mining 3.83 4.01 Linfox; property 3.72 3.96 IC Markets; financial services 1.67 3.96 and Leonie Baldock Resources 3.62 3.20 and Harvey Norman 2.57 3.19 , Zac Fried and family Retail; property 1.41 2.99 and family Goodman Group; property 2.02 2.89 Investment 2.93 2.80 News Corporation and News UK 2.24 2.79 and family Financial services 1.83 2.69 and family Agriculture; property 2.05 2.68 Gaming n/a not listed 2.67 Afterpay; technology 1.86 2.66 , Monica Weinberg-Saunders and family Property 2.73 2.66 Afterpay; technology 1.86 2.65 Retail; property; agriculture 2.20 2.55 Telecommunications 2.54 2.53 , Ann Lim and family Investor; resources 2.04 2.53 Capital Airport Group; property 3.19 2.49 Retail 2.03 2.40 Hancock Prospecting 2.05 2.34 Property 2.33 2.32 and family Retail 2.31 2.31 Hancock Prospecting 2.05 2.31 Hancock Prospecting 2.05 2.31 Hancock Prospecting 2.05 2.30 Crown Resorts; investment 1.77 2.26 Canva 1.00 2.21 Sir Retail; investment 2.60 2.05 and family Retail 2.24 2.02 Retail; property 1.31 1.98 Property 1.98 1.98 and family Property; investment n/a not listed 1.93 Cotton On Group; retail 1.92 1.90 and family Retail 1.79 1.85 Property 1.95 1.82 Chemist Warehouse; retail 1.10 1.81 Gaming; investments 1.54 1.79 and family Manufacturing 1.59 1.79 Chemist Warehouse 1.06 1.78 Residential property 1.35 1.76 and family Buckeridge Group of Companies 1.79 1.72 and family Investment 1.69 1.71 Toll Holdings 1.67 1.63 and family Agriculture 1.57 1.60 and family Moose Toys; retail 0.835 1.58 Ex-Multiplex; investment 1.86 1.55 Investment 1.44 1.55 Rydges Hotels & Resorts; Event Cinemas 1.30 1.55 Financial services 1.38 1.54 and family Soul Patts; investment 1.16 1.54 Property 1.53 1.53 and family Retail 1.58 1.50 Investment 1.49 1.45 QCoal; resources 1.43 1.44 Logistics; investment; property 1.42 1.44 and family Construction 1.48 1.44 United Petroleum 1.32 1.42 1.32 1.39 Ex-Primo smallgoods; investment 1.36 1.36 Technology 0.820 1.35 Agriculture 1.37 1.32 Technology 0.761 1.29 Resources 1.00 1.27 Hotels 0.584 1.27 and family Waste management 1.19 1.27 Manufacturing 1.06 1.26 and family Property 1.25 1.26 and family Paspaley Pearls 1.25 1.24 Financial services 1.46 1.23 Financial services 1.47 1.22 and Retail 1.21 1.21 and family Property 1.20 1.21 Hotels; property 1.00 1.19 Super Retail Group; property 1.17 1.18 and family Ex-Inghams Enterprises; manufacturing 1.17 1.18 and family Manufacturing 1.28 1.17 Precision Group; property 1.06 1.17 Agriculture 1.02 1.16 and family Agriculture; property; tourism 1.13 1.16 and family Kennards Self Storage n/a not listed 1.15 Agriculture 1.10 1.13 Resources; hotels 1.12 1.10 Investment; property 1.08 1.09 and family Construction; mining services 1.00 1.06 Elphinstone Group; mining services 1.08 1.06 Manildra Group 1.08 1.01 and Melbourne Institute of Technology 0.994 0.997 and family Property 0.992 0.995 and family Patrick Corporation 0.983 0.939 and family Kennards Hire n/a not listed 0.933 Sussan; Sportsgirl; Suzanne Grae 0.795 0.925 Computershare; financial services; hospitality 0.922 0.907 and family Property 0.904 0.904 and Charlotte Vidor Property; hotels 0.866 0.903 Property; thoroughbreds 0.896 0.902 Retail 0.884 0.874 , Shay Lewis-Thorp and family Property 0.834 0.871 Media 0.871 0.870 Media 0.892 0.869 Briscoe Group 0.802 0.867 Financial services 0.608 0.858 and family Property n/a not listed 0.857 Resources 0.853 0.844 Technology 0.783 0.843 and family, Property 0.839 0.837 Ex-Multiplex; property 0.827 0.834 Investment; agriculture 0.791 0.827 Travel; property 0.798 0.825 Retail; property 0.775 0.820 Property n/a not listed 0.800 Ex-Aussie Home Loans 0.891 0.790 and family Manufacturing 0.793 0.787 and family Technology 0.777 0.786 and family Agriculture 0.770 0.785 Dodo Services; telecommunications 0.760 0.770 Financial services 0.754 0.763 Property 0.758 0.748 Property 0.721 0.745 Resources 0.740 0.737 and family Ex-Gull Petroleum 0.733 0.736 Investment 0.731 0.735 Property 0.720 0.731 Media; investment; property 0.728 0.729 Waste services 0.703 0.727 Energy 0.699 0.725 Resources; property 0.732 0.724 Technology n/a not listed 0.723 and family Manufacturing 0.547 0.721 Retail n/a not listed 0.710 and family Property 0.662 0.706 and family Agriculture 0.694 0.705 Software 0.715 0.704 Food services 0.702 0.700 Property 0.611 0.697 Technology 0.695 0.693 Ex-StarTrack 0.687 0.692 Resources 0.690 0.688 Technology n/a not listed 0.687 Sonic Healthcare 0.693 0.681 Technology 0.691 0.679 and family Waste; Bingo Industries n/a not listed 0.677 Financial services 0.617 0.676 and family Ex-Godfrey Hirst Carpets 0.683 0.672 Media 0.684 0.670 and family Property 0.667 0.668 Financial services 0.655 0.665 Technology; property 0.684 0.664 Property 0.665 0.663 and family Financial services 0.639 0.658 and Retail n/a not listed 0.657 and family Property 0.645 0.655 and Human services n/a not listed 0.652 Property 0.646 0.650 and family Investment 0.632 0.648 Property 0.664 0.647 Ex-Transpacific; investment 0.644 0.646 and Macquarie Telecom n/a not listed 0.639 Property 0.634 0.632 Technology n/a not listed 0.631 Investment; services 0.629 0.627 Financial services 0.613 0.626 Retail n/a not listed 0.611 and family Financial services 0.643 0.610 Gaming 0.600 0.609 Property 0.581 0.607 Property 0.605 0.605 Retail n/a not listed 0.600 Technology n/a not listed 0.598 Zip Co; technology 0.552 0.597 Technology 0.587 0.596 Property 0.579 0.695 and Alex Wu Healthcare 0.680 0.594 Construction 0.594 0.593 Construction n/a not listed 0.592 Manufacturing n/a not listed 0.590 Manufacturing n/a not listed
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Removed from the 2021 list The following individuals, who appeared on the Financial Review Rich List 2020, did not appear on the 2021 list: 2020NameCitizenshipSource of wealthReasonRankNet worth bn 2.13 Financial services; agriculture Greensill scandal 0.817 Technology 0.780 Technology 0.764 Property Parts of Grocon were placed in administration in November 2020 0.724 and family Manufacturing; food production 0.601 Ex-Menulog; technology 0.588 Jaycar; retail 0.585 Mining 0.580 Agriculture 0.575 Kogan.com; technology 0.569 Resources 0.564 Technology 0.560 Resources; property 0.556 Manufacturing 0.554 Investment 0.550 and Stuart Giles Helathcare 0.549 Financial services 0.546 Property 0.545 and family Construction 0.540 Satterley; property
Notes : Individual was listed on a previous year's list, that was not the 2020 Rich List. : Previous years' listing was in the name of Frank Costa who died on 2 May 2021.
See also Financial Review Rich List Forbes Asia list of Australians by net worth
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