Australia's biggest landholder is
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 ...
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 Anna Creek and The Peake Stations, covering an area bigger than Slovenia.
The figures for land ownership by country were split into leasehold and freehold land for the first time this year, with interests from the Netherlands owning the most freehold land at 1.65 million ha. China topped the leasehold table with 8.31 million ha, pulling ahead of the UK.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' rights and interests in land are formally recognised over around 50 per cent of Australia's land mass. Connection to land is of central importance to First Nations Australians.
The government is also providing $37.5 million to support native title holders to gain greater economic benefit from their land, as well as $21.9 million for leadership initiatives. The government is estimated to provide $16.2 million for Indigenous health spending to the states and territories in 2022-23.
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (see above) provides the basis upon which Aboriginal Australian people in the Northern Territory can claim rights to land based on traditional occupation. The freehold land cannot be sold or transferred, but it can be leased.
The United States and United Kingdom are the biggest investors in Australia, followed by Belgium, Japan and Singapore. China is our tenth largest foreign investor, with 1.9 per cent of the total.
China's Luye Medical bought hospital operator Healthe Care and now owns 34 hospitals across Australia, making it the third largest operator in the country.
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.
Gina Rinehart is the richest farmer in Australia, with an estimated net worth of $36.28 billion. Rinehart inherited a stake in her father's mining company, Hancock Prospecting, and has since expanded the company's operations into the agriculture industry.
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.
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 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.
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.
Australia's mining industry is 86% foreign owned, Although many people think BHP and Rio Tinto as Australian companies, BHP is 76% foreign owned, and Rio Tinto is 83%. Between them they constitute 70% of listed mining company resources.
While big spending buyers are targeting three and four-bedroom homes in Sydney, smaller student accommodation apartments around Australia are also popular Chinese investments. “Chinese buyers are looking overseas for higher returns than they can obtain in their domestic housing or stock markets,” Mr Ho said.
Wesfarmers Limited is an Australian conglomerate, headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. It has interests predominantly in Australia and New Zealand, operating in retail, chemical, fertiliser, industrial and safety products.
Ausgrid was wholly owned by the Government of New South Wales from 2011 to 2016. In 2016, the New South Wales Government offered the effective sale of a 50.4% stake in Ausgrid, through a 99-year lease. Initial bidding was won by a consortium of State Grid Corporation of China and Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings.
China may own as much as 20 per cent of all Australian Government debt according to big Canadian investment bank RBC.
Years of rampaging property prices have made Australians the richest country in the world, but a world of pain could also be in store if global economics take a turn for the worse.
The 1880s saw extraordinary growth: consumer confidence, easy access to credit, and steep increases in land prices led to an enormous amount of construction. During this "land boom", Melbourne reputedly became the richest city in the world, and the second-largest (after London) in the British Empire.
Proportion of all land that is Indigenous owned or controlled. Nationally as at June 2022, 16.1 per cent of Australia's land area was owned or controlled by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This is unchanged from the same time in the previous two years (June 2020 and 2021) (figure SE15a. 1).
Aboriginal land was taken over by British colonists on the premise that the land belonged to no-one ('terra nullius'). The history of Aboriginal dispossession is central to understanding contemporary Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal relations.
Lingiari insisted that the land they were working on was the land of his people and demanded that it be returned. In 1975 Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam poured earth into the hands of Vincent Lingiari in a symbolic gesture of returning lands back to the Gurindji people.