A social history of wealth in Australia that reveals how the richest ever Australians made their money.
Who have been the wealthiest Australians ever? How many are still alive today? How do we measure wealth through the ages and how do today's wealth giants like Murdoch and Packer compare with those in the past?
This extraordinary social history lists over 200 of the wealthiest Australians of all time. Readers will delight in the astonishing history of these individuals.
With detailed information on how they made their money and what sort of people they were and are, 'The All-time Australian 200 Rich List' paints a lively portrait of these distinctive individuals. Some of them were transported as convicts, others had de facto relationships with convicts, and yet as a group they became the nation's wealthiest people and formed the very foundation of our traditional ideas about how Australian history and its economic development were created.
