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{{Short description|Australian businessman, founder and chairman of Westfield}}
{{Use Australian English|date=April 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix   = [[Knight Bachelor|Sir]]
| name               = Frank Lowy
| honorific_suffix   = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100|AC}}
| image              = FrankLowyOct2011.jpg
| alt                = 
| caption            = Lowy at the Australian Football Awards in October 2011
| birth_name         = Frank P. Lowy<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/620023/notes_higher_awards_diplomatic_service_overseas_list_queens_birthday_honours_2017.pdf |title=Birthday Honours 2017: notes on the Foreign Secretary's overseas list |work=Birthday Honours lists 2017 |publisher=gov.uk |date=16 June 2017 |access-date=23 June 2017}}</ref>
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|1930|10|22|df=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Fiľakovo]], [[Czechoslovakia]] (now [[Slovakia]])
| nationality        = Australian <br> Israeli
| other_names        = 
| known_for          = Co-founder, [[Westfield Group|Westfield]]
| boards             = {{unbulleted list|{{nowrap|[[Westfield Corporation]] (1960–2011)}}|{{nowrap|[[Lowy Institute for International Policy|Lowy Institute]]}}}}
| occupation         = Businessman, investor
| years active       = 1952−present
| spouse             = {{marriage|Shirley, Lady Lowy {{post-nominals|country=AUS|OAM}}<br />([[Birth name#Maiden and married names|née]] Rusanow)|1954|9 December 2020||end=died}}
| children           = 3; including [[Steven Lowy]]
}}

'''Sir Frank P. Lowy''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|AC}} ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|oʊ|i}} {{respell|LOH|ee}}; born 22 October 1930) is an Australian and Israeli<ref>{{cite web|last=Pilger|first=John|title=War and shopping – the extremism that never speaks its name|work=New Statesman (1996)|date=26 September 2011|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2469505591.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911194057/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2469505591.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 September 2016|quote=The co-founder of Westfield is Frank Lowy, an Australian -Israeli billionaire who is to shopping what Rupert Murdoch is to media.|publisher= }}</ref><ref name="cashman">{{cite web|last=Cashman|first=Greer Fay|title=The Australian connection|work=Jerusalem Post|date=8 August 2012|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-207930892.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911092853/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-207930892.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 September 2016|quote=Among the many Australian citizens who have homes in Israel as well as business interests in this country is billionaire Frank Lowy, one of the wealthiest people in Australia, who is often described in the media as an Australian-Israeli businessman even though he was born in Czechoslovakia.|publisher= }}</ref> businessman and the former long-time chairman of [[Westfield Corporation]], a global shopping centre company with {{US$|29.3}}{{nbsp}}billion of assets under management in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. In June 2018 Westfield Corporation was acquired by French company [[Unibail-Rodamco]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.afr.com/brand/chanticleer/how-westfields-frank-lowy-consummated-australias-biggest-ma-deal-20180315-h0xj21|title=How Westfield's Frank Lowy consummated Australia's biggest M&A deal|date=15 March 2018|work=Financial Review|access-date=17 July 2018|language=en-US}}</ref>

Lowy was the inaugural chairman of [[Scentre Group]], the owner and manager of [[Westfield Group|Westfield]]-branded shopping centres in Australia and New Zealand.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.scentregroup.com/about-us/history |title=About us: History |publisher=[[Scentre Group]] |date=n.d. |access-date=January 11, 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/business/property/frank-lowy-to-retire-as-chairman-of-scentre-group-20151023-gkgrdb.html |title=Frank Lowy to retire as chairman of Scentre Group |author=Danckert, Sarah |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=23 October 2015 |access-date=7 June 2016 }}</ref>

Lowy is the founder of the [[Lowy Institute]], Australia's leading foreign affairs [[think tank]],<ref name="lowy_inst_2019_06_11_newdaily_com_au">Barro, Christiane, [https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2019/06/11/lowy-institute-think-tanks/ "The think tanks shaping Australia The Lowy Institute,"] ''[[The New Daily]],'' retrieved 26 December 2019</ref><ref name="lowy_inst_hit_2018_12_03_afr_com">Grigg, Angus and Nick McKenzie, [https://www.afr.com/companies/the-lowy-institute-hit-by-chinese-hackers-20181203-h18nn3 "Lowy Institute hit by Chinese hackers,"] 3 December 2018, ''[[Australian Financial Review]],'' retrieved 26 December 2019</ref> which has alternatively been described as "neoliberal",<ref name="lowy_inst_sourcewatch_org">[https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lowy_Institute "Lowy Institute,"] [[SourceWatch]], retrieved 26 December 2019</ref> "centre-right" leaning<ref name="lowy_inst_2019_06_11_newdaily_com_au" /> or "reactionary".<ref name="dangerous_2012_12_28_foe_org_au">Green, Jim, [https://www.foe.org.au/anti-nuclear/issues/oz/u/cc/rory-medcalf-lowy-institute "The Lowy Institute's dangerous nuclear propaganda,"] 28 December 2012, "Online Opinion" [[Friends of the Earth Australia]], retrieved 26 December 2019</ref> Lowy is also chairman of the [[Institute for National Security Studies (Israel)|Institute for National Security Studies]], an independent think tank that studies key issues relating to Israel's national security and Middle East affairs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-quiet-benefactor-lowys-close-ties-with-israel-20080928-4ppd.html|title=The quiet benefactor: Lowy's close ties with Israel|date=2008-09-28|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en|access-date=2020-04-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lowyinstitute.org/people/executive-directors/bio/frank-lowy|title=Frank Lowy's Bio |publisher=[[Lowy Institute]]|access-date=2020-04-03}}</ref>

==Early life==
Lowy was born in [[Czechoslovakia]]<ref name="cashman"/> (in what is now [[Slovakia]]), is of Jewish Slovak-Hungarian origins<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.sky.com/story/the-penniless-migrant-who-built-the-westfield-empire-11167884|title=Sir Frank Lowy: The penniless migrant who built the Westfield empire|website=Sky News|language=en|access-date=9 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/record=b5056135~S30|title=Frank Lowy: pushing the limits|last=Margo|first=Jill|date=2001|publisher=HarperCollins|others=Westfield Holdings Ltd|isbn=9780732269074|edition=2nd|location=Pymble, N.S.W|oclc=155411487}}</ref>  and was forced to live in a ghetto in [[Hungary]] during World War II.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hewett|first=Jennifer|title=Holocaust truth set Frank Lowy free|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/business-old/holocaust-truth-set-frank-lowy-free/story-e6frg9gx-1225952919237?nk=728c50eb35798482b4f4d13453775a3f-1467928777|newspaper=The Australian|date=13 November 2010}}</ref> He made his way to France in 1946, where he boarded the ship ''Yagur'', heading for [[Mandatory Palestine]]. However, he was caught on route by the British authorities and interned in a [[Cyprus internment camps|detention camp in Cyprus]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Keinon|first=Herb|title=Frank Lowy: From Hagana to $3.8 billion magnate|work=Jerusalem Post|date=30 May 2006|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-124649874.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911082026/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-124649874.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 September 2016|quote=One of 750 passengers who after World War II left France on board the illegal immigrant ship Yagur, Lowy was caught en route by the British and deported to the detention camp in Cyprus.|publisher= }}</ref> Lowy joined the [[Haganah]], and then the [[Golani Brigade]], and fought in the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]] in the [[Galilee]] and [[Gaza Strip|Gaza]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jpost.com/Israel/Frank-Lowy-From-Hagana-to-38-billion-magnate|title=Frank Lowy: From Hagana to $3.8 billion magnate|last=Keinon|first=Herb|date=2006-05-29|website=[[The Jerusalem Post]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140127152107/http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Frank-Lowy-From-Hagana-to-38-billion-magnate|archive-date=2014-01-27|access-date=2020-03-04|quote=From Atlit Lowy eventually joined the Hagana and then the Golani Brigade, fighting during the War of Independence in the Galilee and in Gaza... |issn=0792-822X}}</ref>

==Career==
In 1952, Lowy left [[Israel]] and joined his family, who had left Europe for Australia and started a business delivering small goods.<ref name="age2004"/> In 1953, he met fellow immigrant John Saunders.<ref>{{ cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/business/cbd/singin-in-the-rain-in-the-hunter-valley-20160509-gopnnj.html#ixzz4AuhOaCJ9 |title=CBD: Frank's back|work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |author=Kruger, Colin |date=10 May 2016 |access-date=7 June 2016 }}</ref> The pair became business partners, eventually creating Westfield Development Corporation through the development of a shopping centre at [[Blacktown, New South Wales|Blacktown]] in [[Greater Western Sydney|Sydney's western suburbs]].<ref name="age2004">{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/23/1082616328856.html |title=No longer a family affair|work=[[The Age]] |author1=Myer, Rod |author2=Lynch, Michael |date=24 April 2004 |access-date=7 June 2016 }}</ref> Over the next 30 years, Lowy and Saunders developed shopping centres across Australia and the United States (from 1977);<ref name="age2004"/> and listed the company on the [[Australian Stock Exchange]] in 1960 as Westfield Development Corporation.<ref name="age2004"/> Saunders sold his interests and left the company in 1987. In the 1990s Lowy took the company to New Zealand, then the United Kingdom in the 2000s.<ref name="age2004"/>

Lowy was appointed a Director of the [[Reserve Bank of Australia]] in 1995, was reappointed in 2000 and 2003, and concluded his term in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rba.gov.au/about-rba/history/rba-board-members.html |title=Past & Present Reserve Bank Board Members |publisher=Reserve Bank of Australia |work=About the RBA |year=2011 |access-date=30 July 2011  }}</ref> In 2008 Lowy and related interests were mentioned in documents stolen from the [[LGT Bank]] of [[Liechtenstein]] by a former employee. A subsequent US Senate probe and an [[Australian Taxation Office]] audit investigated Lowy and his sons, David and Steven, on their involvement with financial institutions in [[tax haven]]s located in Liechtenstein and Switzerland. Lowy maintained he had not done anything wrong, the matter was settled with the ATO, and no action was taken.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.afr.com/news/death-and-taxes-how-frank-lowy-faced-off-one-and-settled-the-other-20150717-gienni?login_token=vn4hSSCXXwclO_mpYqN7EJgEk2yPLN6VFgzzbmQHqB0z-_qC0ORPLtbnMzwqvr6cCKMgQjHB1SfbFxBoP_MpNQ&expiry=1461121046&single_use_token=AFFYm4n3ORE4hjw8SdzqfCbQg77fS_A7xv_jI4jzoE8QTHu4s4nZVOQAKA2cKuK20uZzNHSL0JlSqcFvhMXAkQ |work=The Australian Financial Review |access-date=20 April 2016 |date=18 July 2015|title=Death and taxes: how Frank Lowy faced off one and settled the other}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/probe-into-lowys-offshore-banking/2008/07/17/1216163002718.html|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=17 July 2008|date=17 July 2008|title=Probe into Lowys offshore banking}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/business/us-ran-two-investigations-into-lowys-bank-links-20101208-18pxy.html |work=The Age |location=Australia |title=US ran two investigations into Lowys' bank links |author=Wood, Leonie |date=9 December 2010 |access-date=29 July 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author1=Elliott, Geoff |author2=Hewett, Jennifer |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/lowy-family-hid-millions/story-e6frg6tf-1111116947059 |work=The Australian |date=18 July 2008 |access-date=29 July 2011 |title=Lowy family 'hid millions' }}</ref>

After turning 80 in October 2010, Lowy officially stood down as executive chairman of the Westfield Group effective May 2011, taking on the role of non-executive chairman. Sons, [[Steven Lowy|Steven]] and Peter, became joint chief executives.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/lowy-hands-westfield-reins-to-sons/story-e6frg6nf-1226014964138 |title=Frank Lowy hands Westfield reins to sons |author=Hewett, Jennifer |date=3 March 2011 |work=The Australian |access-date=30 July 2011 }}</ref> In October 2015, Lowy stepped down as the chairman of the Scentre Group, a role that he had held for 55 years.<ref>{{cite news|title=Frank Lowy steps down as Scentre Group chairman |url=http://www.afr.com/real-estate/frank-lowy-steps-down-as-chair-of-scentre-group-20151023-gkgrpo|work=[[Financial Review]] |location=Australia |date=23 October 2015}}</ref>

==Personal life==
[[File:Frank Lowy.jpg|thumb|Lowy at the 2013 March of the Living in Auschwitz-Birkenau in front of the cattle car donated in memory of his father, Hugo]]
Lowy married Shirley Rusanow in 1954, having met at a Jewish dance when he was 21. They have three sons, Peter and Steven, who managed the Westfield business, and David, who manages the family's private investments.<ref name=Oz2010-11-03>{{cite news |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business-old/property/holocaust-truth-set-frank-lowy-free/story-e6frg9gx-1225952919237 |title=Holocaust truth set Frank Lowy free |author=Hewett, Jennifer |work=The Australian |date=3 November 2010 |access-date=30 July 2011 }}</ref> His wife was the founder of the Chai Foundation which is dedicated to finding and funding research into effective but less toxic forms of cancer therapy.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://jewishcarensw.blogspot.com/2011/06/chai-and-jewishcare-working-together-to.html |publisher=Jewish Care NSW |title=Chai Foundation and JewishCare sign historical agreement |date=29 June 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304220721/http://jewishcarensw.blogspot.com/2011/06/chai-and-jewishcare-working-together-to.html |archive-date=4 March 2016  }}</ref> His son Peter, is chairman of Tribe Media Corp, the parent of the ''[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles|Jewish Journal]]''<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/article/seeking_impact_funders_convene_in_l.a |work=Jewish Journal |title=Seeking impact, Jewish funders convene in L.A. |first=Jonah |last=Lowenfeld |date=19 March 2013 }}</ref> and served as chairman of the [[University of Judaism]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/a_big_giver_20070323/ |work=Jewish Journal |title=A Big Giver |first=Rob |last=Eshman |date=22 March 2007 }}</ref>

In an [[ABC TV (Australian TV channel)|Australian television production]] broadcast in 2010, called ''Family Confidential'', it was revealed that Lowy had kept a secret about his survival in Nazi occupied Hungary.{{Citation needed|date=November 2015}} 

Lowy moved to Israel at the end of 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/leadership/westfield-cofounder-frank-lowy-at-home-in-israel/news-story/9085f30b7247d8f53af92ad63709d558&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium&nk=a3f0f03d41abd41737eb9296dd2c4790-1559205681|title=Westfield cofounder Frank Lowy at home in Israel |work=[[The Australian]] |access-date=30 May 2019}}</ref> Lady Lowy died in Tel Aviv in December 2020, after a long battle with dementia. In ''What Will Become of Us'', a documentary screened at the 2019 [[Sydney Film Festival]], Lowy spoke openly of the trauma of gradually losing his wife.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.afr.com/property/commercial/shirley-lowy-the-woman-behind-westfield-dies-in-israel-20201213-p56n3d |work=[[The Australian Financial Review]] |title=Shirley Lowy, the woman behind Westfield, dies in Israel |author=Patten, Sally |date=13 December 2020 |access-date=15 December 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/the-true-heart-of-westfield-shirley-lowy-dies-aged-86-20201213-p56n3u.html |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |title=The true heart of Westfield: Shirley Lowy dies aged 86 |author=Danckert, Sarah |date=13 December 2020 |access-date=15 December 2020 }}</ref>

===Net worth===
Lowy is one of seven individuals who have appeared on the ''[[Financial Review Rich List]]'', formerly the ''BRW Rich 200'' list, since it was first published in 1984.<ref name="afr2025"/><ref name="BRW2013-Thomson">{{cite journal|url=http://www.brw.com.au/p/lists/rich-200/2013/celebrating_years_of_the_rich_EnUWZtuD02H4jYBFx0e3MM |last=Thomson |first=James|date=22 May 2013|access-date=22 May 2013|title=Celebrating 30 years of the Rich 200|journal=BRW Rich 200 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140727170000/http://www.brw.com.au/p/lists/rich-200/2013/celebrating_years_of_the_rich_EnUWZtuD02H4jYBFx0e3MM|archive-date=27 July 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2010, the ''BRW'' magazine assessed Lowy's [[net worth]] at {{AUD}}5.04&nbsp;billion, making him Australia's richest person at that time.<ref name=smh2010>{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/luxury/frank-lowy-tops-brw-rich-list-for-first-time-20100526-wd2n.html |title=Frank Lowy tops BRW rich list for first time |author=Zappone, Chris |date=26 May 2010 |access-date=27 July 2011 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald }}</ref><ref name=smh2010a>{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/luxury/lowy-leaves-mining-magnates-in-the-dust-20100526-we91.html |title=Lowy leaves mining magnates in the dust |author1=Saulwick, Jacob |author2=Cummins, Caroline |date=27 May 2010 |access-date=27 July 2011 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald }}</ref> In 2016 his net worth was assessed as {{AUD}}8.26&nbsp;billion on the ''BRW Rich 200'' list;<ref name="BRW 2016">{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-26/brw-rich-list-topped-by-harry-triguboff/7448044 |title=BRW rich list topped by Harry Triguboff, Gina Rinehart slips to fourth |work=ABC News |access-date=26 May 2016 |date=26 May 2016}}</ref> and the same net worth the following year when the list was renamed as the ''Financial Review Rich List.''<ref name="afr2017"/> {{as of|2025|05}}, his net worth was assessed at {{AUD}}10.28&nbsp;billion in the [[Financial Review Rich List 2025|2025 Rich List]] published in the ''Australian Financial Review''.<ref name="afr2025"/>

''[[Forbes (magazine)|Forbes Asia]]'' magazine assessed Lowy's net worth at {{US$|6.5}}{{nbsp}}billion in January 2019 and placed him fourth in its Australia's 50 Richest people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/frank-lowy/|title=Frank Lowy|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=25 March 2019}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan=2 | Year
! colspan=2 width=40% | ''[[Australian Financial Review|Financial Review]]''<br />[[Financial Review Rich List|Rich List]]
! colspan=2 width=40% | ''[[Forbes (magazine)|Forbes]]''<br />[[List of Australians by net worth|Australia's 50 Richest]]
|-
! Rank
! [[Net worth]] ({{AUD}})
! Rank
! [[Net worth]] ({{USD}})
|-
| 2007<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/Business/James-Packer-still-top-of-rich-list/2007/05/30/1180205321814.html |title=James Packer still top of rich list |date=30 May 2007 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/78/biz_07australia_Frank-Lowy_CXFY.html |title=Australia and New Zealand's 40 Richest: Frank Lowy |work=Forbes Asia |date=1 February 2007 |access-date=10 October 2011 }}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nts|2}} {{steady}}
| align="right"  | $6.51&nbsp;billion {{profit}}
| align="center" | {{nts|2}} {{steady}}
| align="right"  | $4.30&nbsp;billion {{profit}}
|-
| 2008<ref name="Age2008">{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/business/rich-surprise-alan-bond-bounces-back-20080528-2ixw.html |title=Rich surprise: Alan Bond bounces back |date=28 May 2008 |work=The Age |author=Litras, Peter |access-date=15 September 2011 |agency=AAP |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110901033555/http://www.theage.com.au/business/rich-surprise-alan-bond-bounces-back-20080528-2ixw.html |archive-date=1 September 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/global/2008/0407/037.html |title=Australia and New Zealand's 40 Richest: The List |work=Forbes Asia |date=20 March 2008 |access-date=10 October 2011 |author=Thomson, James }}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nts|2}} {{decrease}}
| align="right"  | $6.30&nbsp;billion {{decrease}}
| align="center" | {{nts|4}} {{decrease}}
| align="right" | $4.40&nbsp;billion {{decrease}}
|-
| 2009<ref name="richgetpoorer">{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/management/rich-get-poorer-20090527-bn70.html |title=Rich get poorer |date=27 May 2009 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |author=Zappone, Chris |access-date=15 September 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/78/australia-rich-09_Frank-Lowy_CXFY.html |title=Australia's 40 Richest: Frank Lowy |work=Forbes Asia |date=13 May 2009 |access-date=10 October 2011 }}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nts|2}} {{steady}}
| align="right" | $4.20&nbsp;billion {{decrease}}
| align="center" | {{nts|2}} {{increase}}
| align="right" | $2.80&nbsp;billion {{decrease}}
|-
| 2010<ref name=smh-2010>{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/luxury/lowy-leaves-mining-magnates-in-the-dust-20100526-we91.html |title=Lowy leaves mining magnates in the dust |author1=Saulwick, Jacob |author2=Cummins, Caroline |date=27 May 2010 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=10 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/78/australia-rich-10_James-Packer_KRFL.html |title=Australia's 40 Richest: James Packer |work=Forbes Asia |date=3 March 2010 |access-date=10 October 2011 }}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nts|1}} {{increase}}
| align="right"  | $5.04&nbsp;billion {{increase}}
| align="center" | {{nts|3}} {{decrease}}
| align="right"  | $3.50&nbsp;billion {{increase}}
|-
| 2011<ref name="BRW2011">{{cite news |url=http://www.brw.com.au/p/lists/rich/brw_rich_wealth_index_6C7D0A81mRoFg5s25l4DdO |title=BRW Rich 200 Wealth Index |work=BRW |location=Australia |date=25 May 2011 |access-date=30 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928124204/http://www.brw.com.au/p/lists/rich/brw_rich_wealth_index_6C7D0A81mRoFg5s25l4DdO |archive-date=28 September 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Forbes2011">{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/james-packer |title=Australia's 40 Richest: James Packer |work=Forbes Asia |date=March 2011 |access-date=16 May 2011}}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nts|6}} {{decrease}}
| align="right"  | $4.98&nbsp;billion {{decrease}}
| align="center" | {{nts|4}} {{decrease}}
| align="right"  | $4.30&nbsp;billion {{increase}}
|-
| 2012<ref name="BRW2012">{{cite news |url=http://www.brw.com.au/p/lists/rich/rich_it_tough_at_the_top_5NxGddTdCxahzaIWfxAkqJ |title=Rich 200: It's tough at the top |work=BRW |date=24 May 2012 |access-date=2 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004163246/http://brw.com.au/p/lists/rich/rich_it_tough_at_the_top_5NxGddTdCxahzaIWfxAkqJ |archive-date=4 October 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Forbes2012">{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2012/78/australia-billionaires-12_James-Packer_KRFL.html |title=Australia's 40 Richest: James Packer |work=Forbes Asia |date=1 February 2012 |access-date=2 June 2012 }}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nts|3}} {{increase}}
| align="right"  | $6.47&nbsp;billion {{increase}}
| align="center" | {{nts|5}} {{decrease}}
| align="right"  | $4.40&nbsp;billion {{increase}}
|-
| 2013<ref name="BRW-2013">{{Cite journal|title=Rich 200 get richer: Our top 10 billionaires enjoy a year to remember|journal=BRW|location=Sydney|url=http://brw.com.au/p/business/rich_get_richer_our_top_billionaires_O0X7PZ1oAhqQAKBnW8Xo1L|date=14 November 2013|access-date=14 November 2013|archive-date=16 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131116004441/http://www.brw.com.au/p/business/rich_get_richer_our_top_billionaires_O0X7PZ1oAhqQAKBnW8Xo1L|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/james-packer/|work=Forbes Asia |title=James Packer |date=March 2013}}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nts|2}} {{increase}}
| align="right"  | $6.80&nbsp;billion {{increase}}
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| align="right"  | $5.30&nbsp;billion {{increase}}
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| 2014<ref name="Forbes2014">{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/australia-billionaires/list/|title=2014 Australia's 40 Richest|access-date=30 June 2014|work=Forbes Asia|date=January 2014 }}</ref><ref name="brw2014">{{cite journal|url=http://www.brw.com.au/lists/rich-200/2014/|title=2014 BRW Rich 200|journal=BRW|location=Sydney|date=26 June 2014|access-date=28 June 2014}}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nts|4}} {{decrease}}
| align="right"  | $7.16&nbsp;billion {{increase}}
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| align="right"  | $4.60&nbsp;billion {{decrease}}
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| 2015<ref name="brw2015">{{cite journal |editor=Stensholt, John |url=http://www.afr.com/leadership/brw-lists/brw-rich-200-list-2015-20160303-gn98ff |title=BRW Rich 200 List 2015|journal=[[Financial Review]] |location=Australia |date=May 2015 }}</ref><ref name="Forbes2015">{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/australia-billionaires/list/#tab:overall|title=2015 Australia's 50 Richest|access-date=10 June 2015|work=Forbes Asia|date=March 2015 }}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nts|4}} {{steady}}
| align="right"  | $7.84&nbsp;billion {{increase}}
| align="center" | {{nts|3}} {{gain}}
| align="right"  | $5.0&nbsp;billion {{gain}}
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| 2016<ref name="brw2016">{{cite journal|editor=Stensholt, John |url=http://www.afr.com/leadership/brw-lists/brw-rich-200-list-2016-20160526-gp4ejn|title=2016 BRW Rich 200|journal=[[Financial Review]]|location=Australia|date=27 May 2016|access-date=7 June 2016}}</ref><ref name="Forbes2016">{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/australia-billionaires/list/#tab:overall|title=2016 Australia's 50 Richest|access-date=9 June 2016|work=Forbes Asia|date=January 2016 }}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nts|3}} {{increase}}
| align="right"  | $8.26&nbsp;billion {{increase}}
| align="center" | {{nts|4}} {{decrease}}
| align="right"  | $5.0&nbsp;billion {{steady}}
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| 2017<ref name="afr2017">{{cite news |url=http://www.afr.com/leadership/afr-lists/rich-list/financial-review-rich-list-2017-20170525-gwcvr6 |editor=Stensholt, John |title=Financial Review Rich List 2017 |work=[[Financial Review]] |date=25 May 2017 |access-date=8 June 2017 }}</ref><ref name="Forbes2017">{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/frank-lowy/?list=australia-billionaires|title=2017 Australia's 50 Richest People: Frank Lowy|access-date=16 March 2018|work=Forbes Asia|date=11 January 2017 }}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nts|4}} {{decrease}}
| align="right"  | $8.26&nbsp;billion {{steady}}
| align="center" | {{nts|4}} {{steady}}
| align="right"  | $5.70&nbsp;billion {{gain}}
|-
| 2018<ref name="afr2018">{{cite web|url=http://www.afr.com/brand/afr-magazine/rich-list-overview-20180413-h0yqo5|title=2018 AFR Rich List: Who are Australia's richest people?|work=[[The Australian Financial Review]]|date=25 May 2018|editor=Stensholt, John|access-date=26 May 2018}}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nowrap|{{nts|5}} {{decrease}}}}
| align="right"  | $8.42&nbsp;billion {{gain}}
| align="center" | {{nts|4}} {{steady}}
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| 2019<ref name="afr2019">{{cite web|url=https://www.afr.com/rich-list/australia-s-10-wealthiest-people-revealed-20190529-p51sj0|title=Australia's 200 richest people revealed|work=[[The Australian Financial Review]] |publisher=Nine Publishing|date=30 May 2019|last=Bailey|first=Michael|access-date=31 May 2019}}</ref><ref name="Forbes2019">{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/australia-billionaires/list/#tab:overall|title=2019 Australia's 50 Richest|access-date=28 September 2019|work=Forbes Asia|date=January 2019 }}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nowrap|{{nts|7}} {{decrease}}}}
| align="right"  | $8.57&nbsp;billion {{gain}}
| align="center" | {{nts|4}} {{steady}}
| align="right"  | $6.50&nbsp;billion {{gain}}
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| 2020<ref name="afr2020">{{cite web|url=https://www.afr.com/rich-list/the-10-richest-australians-revealed-20201028-p569c7|url-access=subscription|title=The full list: Australia's wealthiest 200 revealed|work=[[The Australian Financial Review]]|publisher=Nine Publishing|date=30 October 2020|author1=Bailey, Michael|author2=Sprague, Julie-anne|access-date=31 October 2020}}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nowrap|{{nts|9}} {{decrease}}}}
| align="right"  | $8.30&nbsp;billion {{decrease}}
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| 2021<ref name="afr2021">{{cite news |author1=Bailey, Michael |author2=Sprague, Julie-anne |url=https://www.afr.com/rich-list/australia-s-10-richest-people-revealed-20210526-p57vfr |title=The 200 richest people in Australia revealed |work=[[Australian Financial Review]] |date=27 May 2021 |access-date=28 May 2021}}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nts|9}} {{steady}}
| align="right"  | $8.51&nbsp;billion {{up}}
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| 2022
| align="center" | {{nowrap|{{nts|10}} {{down}}}}
| align="right"  | $9.30&nbsp;billion {{up}}
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| 2023<ref name="afr2023">{{cite news |author1=Bailey, Michael |author2=Sprague, Julie-anne |url=https://www.afr.com/rich-list/australia-s-10-richest-people-revealed-20230523-p5dapa |title=The 200 richest people in Australia revealed |work=[[Australian Financial Review]] |date=26 May 2023 |access-date=6 June 2023}}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nowrap|{{nts|10}} {{steady}}}}
| align="right"  | $9.33&nbsp;billion {{up}}
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| 2024<ref name="afr2024">{{cite news |author1=Redrup, Yolanda |author2=Bailey, Michael |url=https://www.afr.com/rich-list/australia-s-10-richest-people-revealed-20240521-p5jfe4 |title=Australia's wealthiest 200 now control $625b |work=[[Australian Financial Review]] |date=30 May 2024 |access-date=18 September 2024}}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nts|14}} {{down}}
| align="right"  | $9.33&nbsp;billion {{steady}}
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| 2025<ref name="afr2025">{{cite news |author1=Redrup, Yolanda |url=https://www.afr.com/rich-list/australia-s-wealthiest-200-revealed-fortunes-blow-past-667b-20250509-p5lxxb |title=Australia's wealthiest 200 revealed, fortunes blow past $667b |work=[[Australian Financial Review]] |date=30 May 2025 |access-date=31 May 2025 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
| align="center" | {{nts|16}} {{down}}
| align="right"  | $10.28&nbsp;billion {{up}}
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===Football in Australia===
In the 1980's Lowy was president of the Hakoah Social Club, which was attached to the [[Hakoah Sydney City East FC]] football team. Hakoah played in the [[National Soccer League]] between 1977 and 1986. In 1982 Lowy stood for a role in the [[Australian Soccer Federation]] board, but was defeated by a coalition headed by long term President [[Arthur George]]. In 1987 Hakoah opened up the season with a match in front of 5,187 fans. This was not enough for Lowy, who had promised to withdraw Hakoah from the competition if crowds were low. After a heated general meeting the membership voted to withdraw. Lowy withdrew from Club Hakoah and the sport in general by 1988, not to return until the final demise of the NSL and Soccer Australia in 2004 after decades of mismanagement & poor decisions regarding television contracts.

With the NSL and Soccer Australia defunct, Prime Minister [[John Howard]] & Sports Minister [[Rod Kemp]] commissioned the [[2003 Report of the Independent Soccer Review Committee]]. Commonly known as the 'Crawford Report', it called for a new board headed up by Lowy. Lowy quickly placed Soccer Australia into liquidation, replacing it with a new "Australia Soccer Association" which was later renamed to [[Football Federation Australia]], in order to distance itself from the previous iterations and to align with the general usage of the word football across the world. Much of the Crawford Report recommendations were ignored by Lowy in favour of his own decisions regarding the setup and future of the Federation & the sport in Australia. Most importantly for his control, he ignored recommendations regarding the board composition that called for players, coaches, referees, indoor players and a specific women's football representative. He also ignored the Player's Association report that recommended having two teams in Sydney & Melbourne.<ref name="pm-socceraus-canned">{{cite episode | title=Soccer Australia officially canned | series=PM | credits=Presenter: Mark Colvin, Reporter: Ross Solly | network=ABC Local Radio | airdate=26 September 2003 | transcript=Transcript | transcript-url=http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2003/s954773.htm}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/soccers-australian-name-change-20041217-gdz7i2.html|title=Soccer's Australian name change|date=17 December 2004|work=The Age|access-date=2 April 2022}}</ref>

Lowy was chairman of the [[Football Federation Australia]] (FFA) from 2003 to November 2015.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/end-of-an-era-brings-legacy-of-ffa-chairman-frank-lowy-into-focus-20151105-gkra8u.html |title=End of an era |author=Sygall, David |date=7 November 2015}}</ref> Some observers credit him and [[John O'Neill (sport administrator)|John O'Neill]], a former [[rugby union]] executive, with resurrecting soccer in Australia.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-16/frank-lowy-not-a-perfect-score,-but-positives/6945354|title=Frank Lowy transformed soccer in Australia|author=Galloway, Patrick|work=ABC.net |date=16 November 2015 |access-date=16 February 2016}}</ref> A televised  "[[A-League]]" is now in place, and the country has become a member of the [[Asian Football Confederation]].

In 2007 Lowy commenced a campaign to host the [[2022 FIFA World Cup]] in Australia backed with {{AUD}}43&nbsp;million in support from the Australian Government.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-17/lowy-insists-australia-ran-clean-world-cup-bid/6945680 | title=Frank Lowy: Australia ran clean World Cup bid, outgoing billionaire FFA boss says |author=Sales, Leigh |date=18 November 2015}}</ref> In 2010, amid allegations of bribery, politics, and back-scratching,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/the-moment-lowy-knew-cup-bid-was-lost/story-fn76vhk4-1225965439906 |title=The moment Lowy knew Cup bid was lost |author=Wilson, Peter |work=The Australian |date=4 December 2010 |access-date=30 July 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1185986/index.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104165125/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1185986/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 November 2012 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |publisher=Time Inc |location=United States |title=Sorry Soccer: New allegations of corruption underline the need for change in FIFA |author=Wahl, Grant |date=23 May 2011 |access-date=30 July 2011 |page=16 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/13590264 |title=Bin Hammam denied access to Fifa congress |work=BBC News |location=United Kingdom |date=1 June 2011 |access-date=30 July 2011 }}</ref> FIFA awarded Qatar the right to host the World Cup.

In 2015, he fell off a stage as the A-League trophy was due to be presented. In May 2015 he underwent surgery to resolve a complication that had arisen from the fall.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/frank-lowy-falls-off-stage-a-league-trophy-presentation-for-melbourne-victory-overshadowed-as-84-10256081.html |title=Frank Lowy falls off stage: A-League trophy presentation for Melbourne Victory overshadowed by 84-year-old falling from stage |work=The Independent |author=Rice, Simon |date=17 May 2015 |access-date=23 June 2017 }}</ref>

[[File:Frank Lowy presented with Woodrow Wilson Award (cropped).jpg|thumb|Lowy receiving the [[Woodrow Wilson Awards|Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship]] in 2005]]

Lowy completed his term-limited period in charge of the FFA, then handed over power to his son [[Steven Lowy]] unopposed. The move was controversial and viewed as [[nepotism]] and questions over Steven's lack of experience in football governance were partly responsible for a significant power struggle at the highest levels. Intervention by [[FIFA]] eventually resulted in a new governance model, the splitting away of the A-League competition from direct control of the FFA and large changes at the boardroom level. Steven resigned from the role and Lowy also sold the last of his shares in Sydney FC at this time.

===Philanthropy===
Lowy has a reputation for giving his time and financial support to a broad range of causes.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}} He was awarded the title of Australia's leading philanthropist by peak body, Philanthropy Australia, with donations in 2002 of {{AUD}}10&nbsp;million.<ref name="crikey">{{cite news |url=http://www.crikey.com.au/2006/05/17/forget-the-filthy-rich-heres-the-crikey-philanthropy-list/ |title=Forget the filthy rich: here's the Crikey philanthropy list |author1=Nethercote, Jane |author2=Webb-Pullman, Marika |work=Crikey.com |location=Australian |date=17 May 2006 |access-date=29 July 2011 }}</ref>

In April 2003 to mark the 50th anniversary of his arrival in Australia, Lowy established the [[Lowy Institute for International Policy|Lowy Institute]], an independent international policy [[think tank]] devoted to foreign affairs, and Australia's role in the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lowyinstitute.org/AboutUs.asp |title=About the Lowy Institute |publisher=The Lowy Institute |access-date=4 December 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061224184847/http://lowyinstitute.org/AboutUs.asp |archive-date=24 December 2006  }}</ref> It was reported that a gift of A$30 million was made to establish the Institute.<ref name="crikey"/> Together with the [[Kerry Packer|Packer]] family, in 2008 Lowy donated an undisclosed amount towards the [[Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute]].<ref>{{cite news |author=Tovey, Josephine |date=3 September 2008 |url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/09/03/1220121292786.html |title=Princess Mary opens Victor Chang centre |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=29 July 2011}}</ref> In 2010, Lowy and his family donated {{AUD}}10&nbsp;million to facilitate the construction of the [[UNSW Lowy Cancer Research Centre]], a collaborative centre of the Children's Cancer Institute Australia and the Faculty of Medicine at the [[University of New South Wales]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://keyprojects.unsw.edu.au/project/lowy-cancer-research-centre |title=Lowy Cancer Research Centre |work=Key projects |publisher=University of New South Wales |access-date=29 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709162106/http://keyprojects.unsw.edu.au/project/lowy-cancer-research-centre |archive-date=9 July 2011  }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/medweb.nsf/page/LowyGiving+Hope |title=The Lowy Cancer Research Centre at UNSW – Giving Hope |date=1 August 2010 |work=Alumni e-Newsletter |publisher=University of New South Wales |access-date=29 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110407170055/http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/medweb.nsf/page/LowyGiving+Hope |archive-date=7 April 2011  }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=About the Lowy Gift|url=http://www.lowycancerresearchcentre.unsw.edu.au/about-us/about-lowy-gift|work=The Centre is named in recognition of leading businessman and philanthropist Frank Lowy and his family|publisher=UNSW Medicine|access-date=23 January 2014}}</ref>
In 2022, he donated $18 million to [[Tel Aviv University]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-724773|title=Sir Frank Lowy Donates $18 Million to Tel Aviv University's International School|website=Jerusalem Post|date=23 July 2023 }}</ref>

== ''March of the Living'' ==
In April 2013, Lowy attended the ''[[March of the Living]]'', where he shared the story of how his father perished during the Holocaust, with thousands of young students from around the world who had gathered in [[Auschwitz-Birkenau]] to observe [[Yom HaShoah|Holocaust Remembrance Day]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Frank Lowy recalls father's demise in March of the Living address |url=https://www.jta.org/2013/04/10/news-opinion/world/frank-lowy-recalls-fathers-demise-in-march-of-the-living-address#ixzz2uZkMPVw7 |access-date=10 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Wagon of Birkenau |url=http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/international_projects/the_wagon/index.asp |access-date=27 February 2014 |publisher=[[Yad Vashem]] |location=Israel |archive-date=3 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140303224332/http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/international_projects/the_wagon/index.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref> As a 13-year-old boy, Lowy had never known about the loss of his father, Hugo Lowy, who was beaten to death at Auschwitz for refusing to leave his Jewish prayer bag containing his Jewish prayer shawl (Talit) and phylacteries (Teffilin) behind..<ref name="Oz2010-11-03" /> As a mark of respect to Hugo Lowy and other Hungarian Jews, Lowy commissioned the restoration of a railway wagon that had transported Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, and placed the wagon on site at the former concentration camp.<ref name="Oz2010-11-03" />

Later, during the memorial ceremony, Lowy addressed the students and said: "So here I am, with you all in Birkenau. I know he was also here, under this same sky. Just like almost half a million Hungarian Jews, he came to this place in a wagon and, almost immediately after arriving, disappeared as smoke into the sky. I was 13 when I lost my father, and now I am 82 – and you know, I still miss him."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Australian March of the Living Enters 23rd Year |url=https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=22b61782cca978fed7817f5e3&id=408f60c452&e=31c1b94d8c |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=us11.campaign-archive.com}}</ref>

==Awards and recognition==
In 2000, he was appointed a [[Companion of the Order of Australia]] for his service to the community through the development of the property industry and expansion of the retail sector in Australia and internationally, and as philanthropist committed to support of wide-ranging social and cultural endeavours.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1129636 |title=Search Australian Honours: Lowy, Frank P |date=26 January 2000 |access-date=29 July 2011 |work=It's an Honour |publisher=Commonwealth of Australia }}</ref> In 2002, he received the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]] presented by Awards Council member [[Ehud Barak]] in Dublin, Ireland.<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#business}}</ref> The establishment of the Lowy Institute led him to being awarded the [[Woodrow Wilson Awards|Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship]] in 2005 by the [[Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Howard-gets-award-amid-antiUS-concern/2005/08/21/1124562729594.html|agency=[[Australian Associated Press|AAP]]|work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|access-date=6 January 2008|date=21 August 2005|title=Howard gets award amid anti-US concern}}</ref> On 2 October 2007 Lowy received the Henni Friedlander Award for the Common Good at [[Bowdoin College]] in [[Brunswick, Maine]], [[United States]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/004471.shtml|publisher=[[Bowdoin College]]|access-date=2 October 2007|date=2 October 2007|title=Business Leader/Philanthropist Frank Lowy to Receive Henni Friedlander Award for the Common Good}}</ref> In 2008 Lowy was honoured by [[Australia Post]] for his contribution to philanthropy as one of the nation's five leading, living philanthropists with a [[commemorative stamp|commemorative]] [[postage stamp]] that was released on the eve of Australia Day as part of the [[Australian Legends]] series.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.theage.com.au/national/new-stamps-honour-five-philanthropists-20080125-1o6n.html |title=New stamps honour five philanthropists |work=The Age |date=25 January 2008 |access-date=30 July 2011 |agency=AAP }}</ref>

He was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in the [[2017 Birthday Honours#United Kingdom|2017 Queen's Birthday Honours]] (UK) for services to business and philanthropy.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61962|supp=y|page=B2|date=17 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.afr.com/real-estate/commercial/once-an-illegal-immigrant-now-a-knight-bachelor-arise-sir-frank-lowy-20170615-gwrlaw |title=Once an illegal immigrant, now a Knight Bachelor, arise Sir Frank Lowy |author=Margo, Jill |work=Australian Financial Review |date=15 June 2017 |access-date=17 June 2017 }}</ref>

In November 2024 Frank Lowy, in a joint ceremony together with Melbourne lawyer [[Mark Leibler]], was awarded Israel’s highest civilian award, the [[Israeli Presidential Medal of Honour]], for his commitment to Israel and the support of the Jewish communities in Australia.<ref>{{cite news |author=Shanahan, Maxim |url=https://www.afr.com/world/middle-east/lowy-leibler-awarded-israel-s-highest-civilian-honour-20241105-p5knz3 |title=Lowy, Leibler awarded Israel's highest civilian honour |work=[[The Australian]] |date=5 November 2024 |access-date= }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cite news |author=Stitson, Roger |date=15 November 2010 |url=http://www.abc.net.au/tv/familyconfidential/default_series1.htm#/study-guide |title=A Study Guide |format=pdf |work=Family Confidential |location=Australia |publisher=ABC TV |pages=3–5 |access-date=31 January 2014}}

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