Angela Bennett

Her late father, Peter Wright, co-founded Wright Prospecting. Her late brother was Michael Wright (1937–2012), the owner of the Voyager Estate winery in Margaret River.[4][5]

She heads Wright Prospecting.[7] In 2010, she and her brother received A$1 billion from Gina Rinehart after she 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.[5][6] She owns fifteen per cent of Hamersley Iron shares from the Rio Tinto Group, Gina Rinehart owning the other fifty per cent.[4] 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 late mother, Hope Hancock.[7][8][9]

Bennett is married and has seven children.[8]

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.[10][11] He also sat on the Board of the Finance and Energy Exchange.[10]

Net worth

As of 2020 Bennett was the fourth-richest woman in Australia. In 2014, the Business Review Weekly assessed Bennett's net worth at A$1.55 billion.[3] 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.[8][12][13] In 2010, she sold her A$20 million yacht.[8][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[3][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][2]	28	$2.62 billion	24	$1.65 billion
2020[1]	21	$3.83 billion

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