The dramatic shift from mining and property to expertise to generate wealth in Australia has made Atlassian co-founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, and Canva’s Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht among the many nation’s high 10 richest individuals.
The Australian’s 2022 version of The Checklist – Australia’s Richest 250, to be launched on Friday, names Hancock Prospecting’s Gina Rinehart as Australia’s wealthiest particular person with $32.64bn, having made an additional $7bn in 2021.
Fellow WA miner and tech investor Dr Andrew Forrest is in second place with $31.77bn fortune.
Whereas Forrest’s publicly listed firm, Fortescue Metals Group delivers the majority of his fortune, he’s been busy investing in renewable vitality tasks by way of the Fortescue Future Industries inexperienced fund. He’s additionally been a key investor alongside Cannon-Brooks within the $30 billion Solar Cable venture to produce solar energy from the Australia to Singapore, co-leading a $210 billion Sequence B spherical into the enterprise earlier this month.
The web purchasing increase throughout pandemic lockdowns has been form to Victorian cardboard packaging baron Anthony Pratt of Visy, in third place with $27.77bn.
Cannon-Brookes is at 4 with $26.2bn, his co-CEO Farquhar at quantity 5 with $25.99bn.
Tech can also be bringing down the age of wealthy listers with Canva’s Melanie Perkins, 34, and her co-founder husband Cliff Obrecht, 36, cracking the highest 10 at equal eighth with $15.89bn every after their fortunes soared by $13.39bn every final 12 months following a $273 million capital increase in September final 12 months that valued Canva at $54.5bn.
The duo have already pledged to present away nearly all of their fortune.
Tech is staking a powerful declare on the 2022 rankings for The Checklist, alongside different digital disrupters resembling on-line vogue. Tech options in round 1 / 4 of the 2022 Checklist.
Between the Atlassian and Canva founders, aged property and mining magnates function with Sydney residences developer Harry Triguboff at sixth with $20.81bn and Queensland political wannabe and serial litigant Clive Palmer in seventh with $18.35bn.
You may get The Checklist in The Australian tomorrow.
