Andrew Forrest
Andrew Forrest
John Andrew Henry Forrest, better known as Andrew Forrest or by his nickname Twiggy Forrest, is a Western Australian mining magnate currently a non-executive chairman and previously the chief executive officer of Fortescue Metals Group...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryAustralia
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I really do think I can make a contribution in helping eliminate the disparity here in Australia and doing my small bit to help eliminate slavery around the world. These are huge issues for our fellow countrymen and our fellows in the world, where slavery is growing at an alarming rate, and it needs to be arrested.
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There's so many politicians who have given politics a pretty poor name... their actions have been demonstrated to be part of their over-enthusiasm to get reelected.
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Individuals and communities need to clearly tell government if they want parity for First Australians. Only this will overcome the vested interests of governments and administrators and see these practical, inexpensive solutions for what they are: a way to finally achieve results, with the strength of will from each of us.
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I'd like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.
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The teachings of the New Testament are the most valuable guide to the best way to a civil and sustainable society the world has seen.
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Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has ambiguity in it around slavery. That, we knew, was being used as justification by slavers all over the world.
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My greatest love in life is to develop projects. I just get a huge kick out of that. I've been doing it since ever I could.
kids men women
I'd like to keep our kids in their schools. I'd like to keep our young men and women in jobs.
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Tax can be structured in a way that actually encourages investment in infrastructure and encourages investment in Australia from overseas.
people tend
Wealthy people in Australia tend to give, and give very quietly.
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Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'
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When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.
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Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.
legacy term
Im never looking at life in terms of legacy.