The Williams family, of Williams Cattle Company in South Australia, have the title of owning Australia's biggest farming aggregation — the 2.37 million-hectare
From an area perspective, the biggest landholders are Crown Point Pastoral Company, owned by two mates in the Northern Territory with 92,000 square kilometres, followed by the ASX-listed Australian Agricultural Company (66,000 square kilometres), the MacLachlan family of Jumbuck Pastoral Company (52,000 square ...
Anna Creek is not only Australia's biggest cattle station; it's the largest in the world. The station covers a total of around 24,000 square kilometers.
Australia's largest private landowners, pastoralists Donny and Colleen Costello, have expanded their cattle station empire to more than 9.2 million hectares, after acquiring Mount Doreen Station in the Northern Territory for $70 million.
The mining magnate Gina Rinehart is Australia's biggest landholder, controlling more than 9.2m hectares, or 1.2% of the entire landmass of the country, according to data compiled by Guardian Australia.
Gina Rinehart
Gina Rinehart is Australia's richest person.
1. Gina Rinehart, $37.41 billion (up $3.39 billion) Another year, another Rich List crowning Gina Rinehart as Australia's wealthiest person. 2023 marks the fourth consecutive year the mining magnate has held that mantle.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) estimates that foreigners own 12 per cent of farmland. British owners are the biggest foreign landholders, with more than 9.7 million hectares, but Chinese come a close second. The National Farmers' Federation estimates that 99 per cent of farm businesses are Australian owned.
According to the National Farmers Federation, more than 99% of Australian agricultural businesses are wholly Australian owned.
China topped the leasehold table with 8.4 million ha, a very small increase on 2019. China has also pulled ahead when aggregating total freehold and leasehold ownership interests, remaining on the same 2.4 percent of total foreign-held land that it had in 2019.
Kojonup mixed farm sells for state record of $100 million, experts say WA farmland could be highly undervalued. A property in the Western Australia's Great Southern region has sold for a new record price of $100 million and real estate experts say farmland values in the state have the potential to climb even higher.
The Lockyer Valley is rated among the top ten most fertile farming areas in the world, and the intensively cultivated area grows the most diverse range of commercial fruit and vegetables of any area in Australia.
Despite the belief held by many Australian landholders that they own their land absolutely, including anything above or below it, due to the Doctrine of Tenure, the law in Australia holds that the Crown has absolute ownership - not withstanding any native title claims.
The largest landowner in the world currently is King Charles III of England. How much land does the Royal Family own? He and the British Royal Family own more than 6,600,000,000 acres of land around the world. They technically own many territories around the globe, amounting to 1/6 of the surface of the planet.
Their investments increased by 0.5 per cent, bringing Chinese interests' total area of Australian agricultural land to 9,199,000 hectares or 2.4 per cent over the period to June 2019.
Australia's biggest wheat farmer, Ron Greentree, has put Muttama Station, a 12,500 hectare cropping and grazing property west of Coonamble in the NSW Western Plains, up for sale after acquiring full ownership of it from former business partner Ken Harris in December.
There are approximately 85,681 farm businesses in Australia, 99 percent of which are family owned and operated.
Top Crop Producers
Harris Family Rowena NSW 50 000 Ha wheat, 8000 Ha cotton, 5000 maize, 7000 Ha summer crops. Twyanm Agricultural Group Sydney NSW 45 000 Ha wheat, 25 000 Ha cotton, 5000 Ha pulses, 3000 Ha canola, 4000 Ha rice.
Since there are several foreigners who have a legal interest in owning agricultural land, registration is a must, regardless of the value or acquisition date. A foreigner or their agent should register their agricultural land interest within a month (30 days).
According to his research, land ownership is dominated by the aristocracy, who hold almost one-third of the area. Next come large corporations, which may have invested in land for its tax-saving opportunities, followed by tycoons and the public sector.
United States, Canada and China the biggest investors in Australian agriculture in 2020-21. The Foreign Investment Review Board have released their 2020-21 annual report, detailing which countries spend the most on our agricultural assets.
With 126,900 millionaires, Sydney made it to number 10 with the report noting especially strong growth in wealth in the Harbour City over the past 20 years, making it Australia's wealthiest city. It's also predicted to reach the top 5 wealthiest cities in the world by 2040.
Gina Rinehart: $43.17 billion
With a net worth of an excruciating $43 billion, Rinehart is not only the richest woman in Australia - by a large margin - she is also the eighth-richest woman in the world and among the wealthiest humans alive.
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