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Maha Sinnathamby
Australian-Malaysian businessman
Maha SinnathambyAM (born 10 December 1939) is an Australian businessman and property developer.[2][3] He is the entrepreneur behind the Greater Springfield Development in Queensland, the largest master-planned community in Australia.[4]
In 2019, Sinnathamby's Springfield City Group was inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame in recognition of their visionary entrepreneurship in establishing Springfield, as a nation-building project and Australia's first privately-constructed city.[5]
Early life and education
Born in Malaysia on 10 December 1939,[6] Maha Sinnathamby is a Hindu of Sri Lankan Tamil descent.
His childhood was spent on a British-owned rubber estate in the small farming village of Rantau, Negeri Sembilan. His father worked for the plantation but was taken as a prisoner of war in July 1944 during the Japanese occupation of Malaysia.
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