Margaret Fenwick

Before the retail chain that bears his name collapsed under other owners, Dick Smith built three separate ventures on cheek, timing and a genius for publicity.

How a family fled Europe with almost nothing, built a smallgoods-to-steel empire in Melbourne, and then did something rare: wound it up on their own terms.

Sidney Myer arrived from Russia with almost nothing. He built Australia's biggest department store empire — and a family whose giving still shapes Melbourne.

How Richard Pratt turned a small cardboard box plant into Visy, a global packaging empire, and why the cartel case still colours his legacy.

Solomon Lew built Premier Investments from Melbourne's garment trade and spent decades in the Coles Myer boardroom wars. Here's the record, plainly told.

Kerry Packer built World Series Cricket, gambled in millions and told a Senate committee why he wouldn't pay more tax than he had to.

Andrew Forrest built Fortescue Metals from a shell company into one of the world's largest iron ore exporters. The story is wilder than the hagiography suggests.

How a Hunter Valley sparky turned a single leveraged coal deal into Australia's largest personal fortune — and then lost it all inside a decade.

Lang Hancock stumbled across the world's richest iron ore deposits in the Pilbara. What his daughter did with that discovery is an even bigger story.

From Norman Ross to Harvey Norman, Gerry Harvey built one of Australia's most recognisable retail chains — and a commercial property portfolio to match. The story behind the franchise model, the controversies and the founder who never learned to stay quiet.

How Christopher Skase built a media and resorts empire on borrowed confidence, then spent his final years fighting extradition from a Majorcan villa.

From Frank's Depression-era tabloids to Kerry's television monopoly to James's casino empire, the Packer dynasty reshaped Australian business — and ultimately fractured under its own weight.

Lindsay Fox left school at fifteen with nothing but a secondhand truck and an appetite for hard work. What he built from that beginning is a lesson in what sustained private ownership can actually look like.

From Perth sign-writing to the America's Cup, Channel Nine and a Van Gogh — and then to prison. The full arc of Alan Bond's extraordinary rise and collapse.

From a deli in Blacktown to a global empire, Frank Lowy's Westfield story is one of the most remarkable in Australian business history. Here's how it was built — and sold.

From a modest inheritance on North Terrace to Fox News and The Wall Street Journal — the Australian origins of the Murdoch media dynasty, told straight.