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Revealed: Australia's biggest private landowners

Who owns the land Down Under?
30th. Harris family: 933,000+ hectares
29th. Brinkworth family: at least 1 million hectares
28th. Kerry Stokes: at least 1 million hectares
27th. Rallen Australia: 1.1 million hectares
26th. Menegazzo family: 1.2 million+ hectares
25th. Bettini Family: 1,214,100 hectares
Joint 24th. Bill Gunn: 1.3 million hectares
Joint 24th. McBride family: 1.3 million hectares
22nd. Daley Family: 1,301,000 hectares
21st. Hui Wing Mau 1,390,000 hectares
20th. McMillan family: 1.63 million hectares
19th. Lee family: 1.75 million hectares
18th. Cleveland Agriculture: 1,917,550 hectares
17th. Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest: 1.934 million hectares
16th. Hewitt family: 2.05 million hectares
15th. Morgan and Wells families: 2.1 million hectares
14th. Brett Blundy: 2.4 million hectares
13th. Holmes à Court family: 2.7 million+ hectares
12th. Brook family: 3 million hectares
11th. Hughes family: 3.14 million hectares
10th. McDonald family: 3.36 million hectares
9th. Guy Hands & various shareholders: 3.6 million hectares
8th. Macquarie Group shareholders: 4.4 million+ hectares
7th. Williams family: 4.5 million hectares
6th. Handbury Group: 5.28+ million hectares
5th. Gina Rinehart: 5.4 million hectares
4th. The North Australian Pastoral Company: 6 million hectares
3rd. MacLachlan family: 6.2 million+ hectares
2nd. Joe Lewis & various shareholders: 6.4 million hectares
1st. Oldfield and Costello families: 7.2 million hectares
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Courtesy Hewitt Cattle Australia

Who owns the land Down Under?

As the sixth largest country in the world, Australia spans a staggering 7.7 million square kilometres (770 million hectares), with land ownership across the giant nation split between indigenous communities, the state, private individuals, and companies. In fact, as much as 62.7% of Australia is privately owned according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

With that in mind, click or scroll through our gallery to take a look at 30 of the country's biggest landowners, from the families that have farmed their land for generations to the major multinational companies wanting to muscle in on the world of Aussie agriculture. 

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Daniel Coughlin

12 March 2021

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