Live Australia's realtime rich list: Atlassian duo surge
Forbes Australia’s live australias realtime rich tracker shows Australian billionaires gained a combined $460.3 million overnight on Monday, 27 July. Atlassian cofounders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar led with gains of $319.7 million and $319.2 million, while Andrew Forrest posted the largest drop at $112.7 million.
The snapshot comes from Forbes Australia’s real-time rich list, which ranks every Australian billionaire with live market data. Mining heiress Gina Rinehart remains No. 1 at $24.9 billion, ahead of Meriton founder Harry Triguboff at $22.9 billion. For more wealth coverage, see our net worth and wealth hub.
Key Takeaways
- Australian billionaires added a combined $460.3 million overnight on the Monday, 27 July update.
- Mike Cannon-Brookes (+$319.7M) and Scott Farquhar (+$319.2M) led the day’s winners.
- Andrew Forrest (−$112.7M), Richard White (−$110.7M) and Kerry Stokes (−$86.0M) posted the steepest falls.
- Gina Rinehart stays Australia’s richest at $24.9 billion; public holdings refresh every five minutes when markets are open.
Who climbed and who slipped on Monday’s list?
Software fortunes drove the overnight jump. Cannon-Brookes, now Australia’s richest tech billionaire on the tracker at $7.8 billion, rose 4.25%. Farquhar, worth $7.5 billion after stepping down as Atlassian co-CEO in September 2024, gained 4.43%.
Brothers Bruce, Alan and John Wilson — each tied to plumbing supplier Reece Group — added $18.0 million apiece. On the downside, Forrest & family slipped to $18.3 billion (−0.61%). WiseTech’s Richard White fell $110.7 million to $3.3 billion, and Seven Group’s Kerry Stokes dropped $86.0 million to $7.4 billion. Michael Heine (−$65.7M) and Mario Verrocchi (−$55.2M) also featured among the day’s losers.
How does Forbes Australia’s realtime rich ranking work?
Forbes Australia describes the page as Australia’s only real-time billionaires tracker, drawing on the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires list. Public holdings update every five minutes when markets are open, with a 15-minute delay on stock prices. Fortunes tied mainly to private companies are refreshed once daily, sometimes adjusted with FactSet industry or region indexes.
Biggest-gainer and biggest-loser figures compare net worth with the previous trading day’s close. That is why Monday’s board can swing hundreds of millions even when the top order barely moves: Rinehart, Triguboff, Anthony Pratt ($11.4B) and Frank Lowy ($8.8B) showed no change in the published table.
Why does this overnight wealth swing matter?
The list is a live scoreboard for how listed stocks and private valuations reshape Australia’s three-comma club. Tech names such as Atlassian and Canva cofounders Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht ($7.6 billion each) sit just behind the mining and property giants, underscoring how software wealth now rivals traditional resources fortunes day to day.
Ed Craven, 30, remains the country’s youngest billionaire via Stake.com, while Lowy, 95, is the oldest. Readers tracking net worth moves can treat Monday’s $460.3 million collective gain as a market pulse — not a permanent reshuffle — until the next refresh.