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Is Twiggy Forrest secretly negotiating world peace?

Is Twiggy Forrest secretly negotiating world peace?

Published 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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Australians know him as the affable mining billionaire Twiggy - but is Andrew Forrest living a double life as a top-level diplomatic powerbroker? Our North Asia correspondent, Yoni Bashan, spent a while at the court of King Twiggy and joins us to discuss this charming, confounding character.

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Moving beyond mining, Andrew Forrest is trying to broker peace between superpowers

Fossil fuels a ‘weapon of war’ Forrest warns global CEOs at the the China Development Forum

Fortescue founder Andrew Forrest takes aim at powerful Beijing-backed entity battling with BHP

This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Kristen Amiet and edited by Joshua Burton. Our team includes Lia Tsamoglou, Tiffany Dimmack and Jasper Leak, who also composed our music. 

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