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‘No bigger story than this, mate’: The $5 billion man Australia forgot to notice

Vikas Rambal built the world’s largest ammonia plant, walked away with hundreds of millions, lost everything that mattered – then did it again.

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Australia’s 10 Richest People

*Last updated April 28, 2026

1 Gina Rinehart
Gina Rinehart $25.5B No change
2 Harry Triguboff
Harry Triguboff $23.4B No change
3 Andrew Forrest
Andrew Forrest $19.4B ▼ -$10.6M
4 Anthony Pratt
Anthony Pratt $10.6B No change
5 Frank Lowy
Frank Lowy $8.8B No change
6 Cliff Obrecht
Cliff Obrecht $7.6B No change
7 Melanie Perkins
Melanie Perkins $7.6B No change
8 Mike Cannon-Brookes
Mike Cannon-Brookes $7.1B ▼ -$117M
9 Kerry Stokes
Kerry Stokes $7B ▼ -$111.7M
10 Vivek Chaand Sehgal
Vivek Chaand Sehgal $6.9B ▲ +$113.5M

Australia’s only real-time billionaires tracker. Forbes Australia ranks the nation’s 10 wealthiest people by net worth, updated daily with live market data from the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires list.

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