Gina Rinehart has topped off a dramatic 12 months by sweeping to top place on the BRW Rich 200 list with a fortune of $10.3 billion.
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Rich pickings on BRW’s list … even average Joes are going OK
Yes, the rich have done very nicely for themselves — with about a 20% increase in total wealth expected for this year’s BRW Rich List — but average Joes aren’t travelling too badly either.
Property prices: the weak end at Bernie’s effect
While agents put price rises down to shortages and New York Ponzi schemes, the more likely reason is that Australians pay too much for property using too much debt.
Not so fast, BRW
Would the BRW ‘Fast Starters’ list look so robust if they hadn’t used data that was a year old — taken from before the financial crisis hit? Crikey intern Sophie Tarr investigates.
Tips and rumours
From a couch somewhere in the office of Prime Minister & Cabinet. During PM Rudd’s recent trip to UK one of his staffers suffered a serious deep vein thrombosis, requiring urgent medical intervention and repatriation. This occurred because the individual had been so overworked by the PM prior to boarding the flight that the entire […]
The Rich List: Where are they now?
The Rich List Hall of Fame is arguably more fascinating than the actual list, detailing all former members of the list and the year their wealth peaked, writes Adam Schwab.
BRW Rich List: miners cheering, others not so cheery
The annual celebration of Australian wealth that is the BRW Rich 200 hits the streets today and those not involved in digging rocks out of the ground are likely to be cheering, writes James Thomson.
Poverty-stricken BRW produces excellent Rich List edition
You get a sense the latest BRW Rich List edition is perhaps a last gasp for the magazine, writes Stephen Mayne.
Tips and rumours
Tony Mokbel and Opes Prime. According to a lawyers acting for one of the lending banks, apparently the Opes Prime crisis has been precipitated (at least in part) by the involvement of a huge amount of Tony Mokbel’s money which has been invested in or through Opes (using offshore companies or nominee accounts of course). I have […]
Tips and rumours
The ABC News site has linked this document to its story about US wheat farmers failing to get a lawsuit up against AWB over the impacts of the “Trucking Fees” affair. This would have to be the funniest thing ever on the AWB website - a document in which a US judge spells out the […]
BRW’s Executive Rich List a wobbly extension of the franchise
Without the flagship Rich List editions, Fairfax’s BRW magazine would be an even more marginal proposition that would probably go the same way as The Bulletin, writes Stephen Mayne.
BRW: You’ve got male
BRW has once more submitted to a revamp. The result is a more masculine product – and fewer women, writes Jane Nethercote.
