At last, billionaire! Stokes is the
primary dealer of Caterpillar equipment in Australia. He adds to his fortune by
his stake in media group, Seven Network. Lately he has been attempting to grab
up Perth's Western Australia Newspapers. Originally from South Africa, Neilson set
up Platinum Asset Management in 1993 with George Soros backing him. When the
firm went public in 2007 he cashed out around $500 million. His next plan is to
open a contemporary Chinese art museum. Along with other family members she
benefits from her late father's mining assets: Rio Tinto's Hamersley Basin Iron
Ore Mine Clay Matthews Jersey. She had to fight her stepmother for it.Rinehart also owns a direct
stake in the family company Hancock Prospecting.
Pratt was at one time a McKinsey
consultant and ran Visy Industries U.S. operations for 20 years. He is now
co-chairs the packaging kingdom with his mother, owned in entirety by his
family. He co-owns the global operations with his two sisters. Forrest was Australia's #1 richest person
in 2008. Sadly he lost his position due to decreasing iron ore demand which
affected shares of his Fortescue Metals Group. A Chinese steel group recently
took ownership of part of the company. There was a bit of scandal around the
deal which he denies.
Gandel owns prime real estate - lots of
it, including half of Melbourne's Chadstone shopping mall and a stake in a
trust that owns the other half. Rumor has it that his private home is the
priciest in Melbourne. Known affectionately as
"High-Rise-Harry", he is Oz's apartment building tycoon. He was born
in China to Russian parents and started his career as a taxi driver. He now
owns hundreds of flats in Sydney and North Shore Packers pro shop. Lowy is another one of the country's real
estate moguls as well as the president of the Football Federation Australia. He
is a Czech immigrant and founded the Westfield Group real estate company. The
company's stock took a fall earlier in 2009 but hey, he still has close to $3
billion and that's not shabby.
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