John Van Lieshout

Born in the Netherlands in 1946,^[2] Van Lieshout is one of 13 children of Karel van Lieshout, a plasterer, and his wife, Anna, who emigrated to Australia in 1960, initially processed at Brisbane's Wacol Migrant Camp.^[3]

Van Lieshout has a high school diploma.^[1]

Van Lieshout is the founder and former owner of the Super A-Mart furniture store chain.^[1] He sold Super A-Mart in 2006 for A$500 million, and moved into property development.^[4] Through his Unison Projects Group, he has acquired 600 housing blocks and 200 townhouses in the Brisbane area.^[4]

Other members of the family have founded businesses, and the family is known in Australia as the "kings and queens of furniture", having founded chains including Empire Office Furniture, Super A-Mart, BW Coles, Chevron and the Woolstore.^[3]

Van Lieshout is married with three children and lives in Brisbane, Queensland.^{[1][unreliable source?]}

Net worth

In 2014, Queensland's Sunday Mail named Van Lieshout as the richest person in Queensland, by net worth.^[5] However, as of May 2025^[update], the Financial Review in the 2025 Rich List had assessed Van Lieshout's net worth as A$3.02 billion and Clive Palmer was the richest person in the state, with a net worth of A$20.12 billion.^[6]

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Year	Financial Review Rich List		Forbes Australia's 50 Richest
	Rank	Net worth (A$)	Rank	Net worth (US$)
2016[7]			28	$970 million
2017[8][9][10]		$1.72 billion
2018[11]	33	$1.92 billion
2019[12][13]	29	$2.51 billion	31	$1.40 billion
2020[14]	45	$2.03 billion
2021[15]	43	$2.49 billion
2022	41	$2.70 billion
2023[16]	41	$2.72 billion
2024[17]	44	$2.92 billion
2025[6]	51	$3.02 billion

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