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Australia's biggest landowners revealed

The people and organisations that own Australia
50th. Field family: 75,647 hectares
49th. The Beidahuang Group: 85,000 hectares
48th. McCoy family: 90,900 hectares
47th. Ian McLachlan: 111,000 hectares
46th. Keats family: 125,000 hectares
45th. Paspaley Pastoral: 138,181 hectares
44th. Qatar Investment Authority: 152,000 hectares
43rd. SALIC: 200,000 hectares
42nd. Warakirri Asset Management: 200,000+ hectares
41st. Pham Nhat Vu: 203,900 hectares
40th. Yiang Xiang Assets: 205,000+ hectares
39th. Bell family: 225,405 hectares
38th. Alex & Julian Burt: 226,342+ hectares
37th. Lorraine Pastoral Company shareholders: 240,000 hectares
36th. Greg and Sharon Vickers: 396,700+ hectares
35th. Angus Family: 400,000+ hectares
34th. Craig Astill: 408,000 hectares
33rd: Allan Myers: 623,000+ hectares
32nd. Ma Xingfa: 634,004 hectares
31st. Colin Ross: 774,500 hectares
30th. Harris family: 933,000+ hectares
29th. New Forests shareholders: 950,000+ hectares
28th. Romeo Roxas: 965,000+ hectares
Joint 26th. Kerry Stokes: 990,000+ hectares
Joint 26th. Bill Gunn: 990,000+ hectares
25th. Brinkworth family: 1 million hectares
24th. Rallen Australia: 1.09 million hectares
23rd. Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest: 1.12 million hectares
22nd. Hewitt family: 1.2 million hectares
21st. McBride family: 1.3 million hectares
20th. Acton family: 1.58 million hectares
19th. Menegazzo family: 1.6 million+ hectares
18th. McMillan family: 1.63 million hectares
17th. Oxenford family: 1.97 million hectares
16th. Morgan and Wells families: 2.1 million hectares
15th. Brett Blundy: 2.4 million hectares
14th. Lee family: 2.42 million hectares
13th. Hughes family: 2.7 million hectares
12th. Holmes à Court family: 2.7 million+ hectares
11th. Brook family: 3 million hectares
10th. McDonald family: 3.36 million hectares
9th. Guy Hands & various shareholders: 3.6 million hectares
8th. Oldfield and Costello families: 4.45 million hectares
7th. Macquarie Group shareholders: 4.48 million+ hectares
6th. Williams family: 4.5 million hectares
5th. MacLachlan family: 5 million+ hectares
4th. Handbury Group: 5.28+ million hectares
3rd. The North Australian Pastoral Company: 6 million hectares
2nd. Joe Lewis & various shareholders: 6.4 million hectares
1st. Gina Rinehart: 9.7 million hectares
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Courtesy Hewitt Cattle Australia

The people and organisations that own Australia

As the sixth largest country in the world, Australia spans a staggering 7.7 million square kilometres – that's 770 million hectares – with land ownership in the giant nation split between indigenous communities, the state, and private individuals and companies. As much as 62.7% of Australia is privately owned, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Click or scroll through as we look at 50 of the top landowners, from families that have farmed their land for generations to major multinational companies wanting to get in on the world of Aussie agriculture.

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Daniel Coughlin

30 March 2021

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