| Abstrakt: |
The iron-ore company Andrew created in 2003, Fortescue, is the behemoth engine of the Forrest's philanthropy empire, generating US$940 million on average every month. It was 1988, and Nicola was hitchhiking home from work (flipping burgers at the Blue Heeler Hotel in Kynuna, population 10, and famous as the town where Banjo Paterson conjured Waltzing Matilda) when she first laid eyes on a cocky stockbroker named Andrew Forrest. Up front In the red-dirt landscape of the Pilbara, local Thalanyji artists paint from above, as creation spirits - eyes in the sky looking over their children below. Today David's great-great grandson, the mining magnate Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest, owns it but Nicola, his wife of 30 years, runs it. [Extracted from the article] |
