BRW Young Rich 2016

Atlassian co-founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar top the list with a record $4.6 billion wealth, almost 10 ...
Atlassian co-founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar top the list with a record $4.6 billion wealth, almost 10 times more than the next names on the Young Rich list. Trevor Collens

Explore the 2016 edition of the BRW Young Rich, featuring the wealthiest young Australians and how they earned their fortune.   

Atlassian co-founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar top the list with a record $4.6 billion wealth, almost 10 times more than the next names on the Young Rich.

The list includes international celebrities and sports stars such as Miranda Kerr, Chris Hemsworth, Jason Day, Tim Cahill and Harry Kewell.

There are eight women on the list, including debutants Kayla Itsines and Amanda Hayward, publisher of the Fifty Shades erotic romance fiction trilogy.

There are 22 new names on the list, led by Envato co-founders Collis and Cyan Ta'eed. 

BRW Rich List editor John Stensholt.

Research: Vi Benito, Frankie Kok, Gary Lu

Data Editor: Edmund Tadros

​Production editor: Rose-Anne Manns

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