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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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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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