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Featured

From Hollywood hustle to hinterland healing: Inside Sol Elements

30 under 30 Out now

The 10 most-read stories on Forbes Australia in 2025

Why are there suddenly so many self-made billionaires under 30?

Hamilton Island changes hands from the billionaire Oatley family to Blackstone

Lululemon’s billionaire founder has been fighting to oust its CEO–He won, but he’s still not happy

Life

What money can’t buy: Rita Ora

The summer reads list: 13 books to power your holidays

The summer reads list: 13 books to power your holidays

Billionaire’s son gifted $1.2 million Richard Mille watch to Lionel Messi

From the F1 podium to Capella: The Mille family on sport, design and a global spotlight

Antarctica to Hobart: Ponant’s ultra-luxury icebreaker is headed Down Under

How Hyrox turned everyday gym training into a $130 million juggernaut

30 Under 30

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Introducing Forbes Australia’s 30 Under 30 list for 2025

$100 million man: How Josh Giddey became Australia’s highest-paid athlete at 23

Inside Milly Alcock’s meteoric rise from the Inner West to Westeros

How this trio are saving Australia’s pipes with a ‘ferret’ – and a $2 million cheque

How Sophia Begg turned TikTok stardom into a multi-million-dollar brand

Grace Toombs

How this 24-year-old is tackling Australia’s ‘dire’ women’s health gap

Entrepreneurs

One sheet every 3 minutes: Inside this Aussie couple’s budding bedding empire

The songwriter turned billion-dollar boss of Songtradr

Red lights, hot sweat, big business: Inside Australia’s infrared shakeup

Robin Khuda AirTrunk

AirTrunk eyes world’s biggest data centre as AI boom accelerates

Bruna Papandrea on the gap Big Little Lies uncovered in Hollywood

Panzera

The ‘stupid idea’ that became Australia’s watch success story

Innovation

ChatGPT users say swapping out models is like ‘replacing a service animal’

Why perspective, not perception, is key in a world of AI

Australia has begun enforcing a world-first ban blocking under-16s from holding accounts on major social media platforms.

Kicked off: Australia’s social media ban for under-16s is here

NextDC, OpenAI to develop $4.6 Billion data centre in Sydney

SRW Cel

The anti-aging supplement claiming to rewind your biological clock by 5.7 years

Cursor cofounders Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark, Sualeh Asif and Michael Truell (left to right) met at MIT and decided to build Cursor, an AI coding tool that's now valued at $29.3 billion. The cofounders are newly minted billionaires thanks to its latest fundraise, according to Forbes estimates.

Four cofounders of popular AI coding tool Cursor are now billionaires

BrandVoice

From enterprise to academia: How Dr Nikhil Jayaraj of Regen Power is building a net zero playbook

Opening the private credit market to a new class of investors

How Easy Super is redefining SMSFs

Ideas to Save the Planet

Rolex Laureate Mark Kendall. Image: Supplied

From vaccines to wearables: How Mark Kendall is betting on skin tech

From TED teen to tech CEO: Miranda Wang’s circular plastic bet

The 19-cent fix feeding 25 million people a day

Billionaires

More Epstein photos released—showing Bill Gates, Woody Allen and more

Elon Musk is once again the world's richest person. Image: Getty

Musk already nears $700 billion valuation after Tesla stock breaks record

Elon Musk just became the first person ever worth $600 billion

Epstein Files may finally come out this week—but could be missing details on high-profile friends

Musk signals reports of SpaceX planning an IPO next year are ‘accurate’

Larry Ellison—losing $31 billion—stumbles to no. 3 richest as Oracle shares plummet

Investing

Netflix ‘super confident’ in Warner Bros. deal after Paramount’s hostile bid

Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. in $83 billion deal

Why the 2026 startup boom will be circular

Naver to acquire crypto exchange giant Dunamu in $10 billion deal

What Australia’s wealthiest are doing with their money

Crypto slide continues as Bitcoin drops below $82,000—lowest level since mid-April

Leadership

The problem with the ‘highest paid person’s opinion’ and leaders being the ‘smartest person in the room’

The four most powerful women in Australia

The world’s most powerful women 2025: Where do women hold real power?

‘Just Say Yes’: How The Iconic’s CMO and Rokt’s AI Chief turn self-doubt into a superpower

The hidden mental health crisis behind ‘I’m Fine’ – and who’s fixing it

From Break-Up to Breakthrough: Women aged 45-65 are reframing divorce