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Top earners: Oscar Piastri, Pat Cummins and Mary Fowler.

Top earners: Australia’s richest athletes

We’ve spent months researching the salaries, prizemoney and sponsorships of Australia’s highest-paid athletes for a five-part series on sport’s biggest earners.

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Elon Musk and Gine Rinehart for index

Being ultra-wealthy isn’t as fun as you think. Just ask the ultra-wealthy

Rich people have less to worry about, right? Sure, but scratch a little deeper, and you might end up feeling sorry for the private-jet set.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Software giants Canva and Atlassian have minted a younger generation of entrepreneurs including Mike Cannon-Brookes, who are in lucrative targets for the wealth management giant.

Wall Street giant targets Australia’s richest families

Goldman Sachs is looking to take advantage of a boom in self-made multimillionaires and family wealth looking for global investments.

  • Richard Henderson
The great Australian dream is rapidly drifting out of reach.

Australians are pretty rich but there’s a catch

Australia retained its place as the second-richest country in the world when it comes to median wealth, and our spot of fifth place for average wealth.

  • Victoria Devine
The family of prominent barrister Allan Myers has ended a prolonged legal fight against ex-Hawthorn footballer Brad Sewell’s plan to build four holiday cabins beneath the Grampians.

Myers family drops long legal fight against ex-footballer’s Grampians build

The children of prominent barrister and rich-lister Allan Myers had objected to a “modest” development near the family’s homestead by former Hawks player Brad Sewell.

  • Lachlan Abbott
Scott Bessent, US treasury secretary. Photographer: Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg

The Trump billionaires who run the economy and the things they say

Psychologists say that extreme wealth changes people and their views of those who have less.

  • Elisabeth Bumiller
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Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk’s wealth have plummeted.

World’s 500 richest people surpassed $15 trillion in wealth in 2024

The world’s 500 richest people got vastly richer in 2024, with Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg leading the group to a new milestone. Their wealth is now similar in size to the combined GDPs of Germany, Japan and Australia.

  • Dylan Sloan and Jack Witzig
It’s been a lucrative year for football legend David Beckham.

David Beckham lands $57m payday after Netflix documentary

Profits at the football legend’s business empire more than tripled after the lucrative documentary deal.

  • Hannah Boland
Maree Isaacs remains an executive director at WiseTech despite the share sale.

WiseTech co-founder in big payday, selling stake to Richard White

The 10.2 million shares are worth more than $1 billion based on Friday’s share price.

  • Colin Kruger
Who says money can’t buy happiness?

You can’t have too much money, happiness researcher finds

When it comes to money buying happiness, more is better, says a study that has found the correlation between wealth and well-being does not plateau once incomes reach a certain point.

  • Conrad Quilty-Harper