This week in The Fin podcast, senior Chanticleer columnist James Thomson on who makes the cut this year, how that has changed over the last four decades and why it matters.

Further reading:

• The biggest hits (and misses) from 40 years of the Rich List Corporate raiders, post-war migrants, tech booms and busts – the annual scorecard of our most wealthy charts the ups and downs of Australian entrepreneurialism.
• The 200 richest people in Australia revealed In another year of the billionaire bingo that names the nation’s wealthiest, mining and manufacturing is up, technology is down and everything old is new again.
• If Rich Listers had to start over in 2023, what would they do? What if you had to build your career from scratch again? We asked 10 Rich Listers, Young Rich Listers and notable entrepreneurs to imagine they were back at the beginning right now

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