Angela Bennett

Her father, Peter Wright, co-founded Wright Prospecting. Her brother was Michael Wright, the owner of the Voyager Estate winery in Margaret River.[6][2]

She heads Wright Prospecting.[4] In 2010, she and her brother received A$1 billion from Gina Rinehart after the latter was legally forced to give up twenty-five per cent in the Rhodes Ridges iron ore mine 60 kilometres (37 mi) west of Newman in the Pilbara.[2][3] She owns fifteen per cent of Hamersley Iron shares from the Rio Tinto Group, Gina Rinehart owning the other fifty per cent.[6] In September 2012, she sued Rinehart to recover fifty per cent of 4, 5 and 6 tenements of the Hope Downs mine, named after Gina Rinehart's mother, Hope Hancock.[4][5][7]

Bennett is married and has seven children.[5]

Her son, Todd Bennett, was appointed to the Board of Directors of Apex Mineral in 2008, but he no longer sits on it as of 2012.[8][9] He also sat on the Board of the Finance and Energy Exchange.[8]

Net worth

As of May 2023 Bennett was the third-richest woman in Australia by net worth.[10] In 2014, the Business Review Weekly assessed Bennett's net worth at A$1.55 billion.[11] In September 2009, she sold her home in the Mosman Park neighbourhood of Perth for A$57.5 million and downsized to a A$8 million apartment in West Perth.[5][12][13] In 2010, she sold her A$20 million yacht.[5][13]

Year	Financial Review Rich List		Forbes Australia's 50 Richest
	Rank	Net worth (A$)	Rank	Net worth (US$)
2011[14][15]			12	$1.55 billion
2012[16]			9	$2.30 billion
2013[17]			30	$0.90 billion
2014[11][18]		$1.55 billion	25	$1.01 billion
2015[19]			31	$0.97 billion
2016[20]			29	$0.93 billion
2017[21][22][23]		$1.76 billion	23	$1.70 billion
2018[24]	27	$2.17 billion
2019[25][26]	28	$2.62 billion	24	$1.65 billion
2020[27]	21	$3.83 billion
2021[28]	24	$4.13 billion
2022	24	$5.00 billion
2023[10]	20	$4.63 billion

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