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Fire, smoke and steam add ancient drama to new food venue
Cooking in the terracotta pot known as Romertopf results in pristine flavour and a dash of drama at Woodcut.
- Jill Dupleix
Watch: Who made the cut and who didn't?
The AFR Rich List editors discuss this year's list – who made the cut and who didn't, and why.
- Updated
Ruslan and Anastasia Kogan: The making of a power couple
Newly married and newly minted, Ruslan and Anastasia Kogan are breaking new digital ground in business, technology and the arts.
- Michael Bailey
Why slogomania has overtaken logomania in fashion
Fashion has always helped signal who the wearer is and a body’s length of logos says: I’m worth it. The message of a slogan? THIS is worth it.
- Lauren Sams
The pets that rich listers own
Meet the furry and feathered friends that define creature comforts for some of the nation’s most wealthy.
- Philippa Coates and Matthew Drummond
October
Rich List 2020 marks the rise of the ore-ligarchs
Western Australia’s iron ore miners and rentiers have achieved unprecedented wealth in 2020.
- Julie-anne Sprague
- No. 112
- Rich families
The Symond family and the succession plan that wasn’t
Only a few years ago, while cruising off the coast of Monaco, James Symond marvelled at his perfect life. Just two months later, the clouds rolled in.
- Michael Bailey
- No. 164
- Travel
A reclusive Rich Lister built a golf resort – and no one’s sure why
Greg Coffey has transformed a manor house and farm on the windswept Scottish island of Jura into a luxurious resort with a spectacular golf course.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Italian inspiration meets Australian flavour in new liqueurs to love
The inspiration might be European, but the exciting local versions of aperitivo and amaro liqueurs have a distinctly Antipodean accent.
- Max Allen
- No.128
- Rich listers
Introducing the Rich Lister who didn’t want to be discovered
You’ve probably never heard of Tony Walls, whose company Objective Corp is driving him up the ranks of Australia’s most wealthy. But that’s just how he likes it.
- Julie-anne Sprague
Tony Albert's Aboriginal art turns cultural appropriation on its head
The artist used a Canberra Glassworks residency to create a collection of thought-provoking domestic artefacts.
- Stephen Todd
What this IT entrepreneur and peace crusader is reading
Steve Killelea is the author of 'Peace in the Age of Chaos: The Best Solution for a Sustainable Future'. Here's the book that's commanding his attention now.
- Luke Slattery
- No. 76
- Rich listers
Ancient philosophy helps Rich Lister build a city
Maha Sinnathamby always held fast to the belief that he could deliver Australia's first privately built city against all objections – and there were many.
- Philippa Coates
How COVID-19 rocked the rich in Australia this year
The virus didn't discriminate between rich and poor but it has turned digital businesses into huge winners. Kogan's shares are up six-fold and the net wealth of Afterpay founders Nick Molnar and Anthony Eisen neared $1.9 billion each.
- James Thomson and Julie-anne Sprague
The Rich List newcomers who found success through chemistry and fate
It's important for founders to know when to go, say Cathie Reid and Stuart Giles as they venture beyond the businesses that made them a fortune.
- Carrie LaFrenz
Complicated, unnecessary – and the latest must-have in luxury watches
The on-trend tourbillon is uber-expensive and exorbitant. Perfect, then, for the rich wrist.
- Bani McSpedden
The 10 most powerful people in Australia in 2020
A man whose work ethic confounds his rivals, a banker who is power coaching the rest of the industry and a politician overlooked by the rest of his party until the pandemic hit. Meet 2020's most powerful.
- Tom McIlroy
Premiers, doctors and bankers back in charge but PM still on top
Bushfires of terrifying ferocity, followed by a global pandemic caused by a pathogen visible only with an electron microscope, have shown us real power.
- Phillip Coorey
The list to be on: 20 years of the AFR Magazine Power issue
From prime ministerial coups to back-room manoeuvrings, our annual Power issue identifies the Australians shaping the nation.
- Matthew Drummond
Australia’s 10 most covertly powerful people in 2020
Australians with the leverage to exert their influence behind the scenes.
- Tom McIlroy
How Scott Morrison learnt to filter out the noise
As a young MP, Scott Morrison was combative. But as Prime Minister – and facing an invisible enemy – he’s found a new modus operandi.
- Pamela Williams
The 10 most culturally powerful people in Australia in 2020
What did Australia’s cultural power luminaries have in common this year? They rose to the challenge of a crisis, then set about making a difference.
- Brook Turner
New kids on the block join 2020’s property power players
For sheer innovation alone, Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar's plan for a $1 billion office tower wins them a placing as commercial real estate developers.
- Nick Lenaghan
September
How corporate Australia clawed back its power in 2020
When the crisis hit, one leader grasped its significance – and the opportunity it provided – more quickly than anyone.
- James Thomson
The 10 most powerful people in Australian business in 2020
As the business sector’s most prominent member of Team Australia, CBA chief executive Matt Comyn tops this year’s list of corporate heavy-hitters.
- James Thomson
