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(FILES) Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, testifies during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing

‘Wicked problem’: Forrest backs sweeping changes to rein in Facebook

Andrew Forrest has backed sweeping changes a parliamentary inquiry has recommended to plug a legal loophole and force Facebook owner Meta and other social media giants to comply with Australia’s laws.

EXCLUSIVETechnology

CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - October 21, 2024: Andrew Forrest meets with King Charles III at the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Andrew Forrest backs health start-up’s fight against ageing

Verge Genomics’ Alice Zhang left university to build an AI-powered drug discovery platform to develop the next blockbuster treatments for diseases linked to ageing, from Alzheimer’s to obesity.

China tradeMining & Energy

Pictures of Fortescue AGM in Perth at Optus Stadium. Pictures of Andrew Forrest, during the AGM in Perth. Photo Ross Swanborough. 061124

China strong enough to survive US trade war: Forrest

The mining magnate has stressed China’s ‘horsepower’ means trade will be healthy despite US election results, while outlining Fortescue’s future green energy plans.

PhilanthropyMining & Energy

Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest and Nicola Forrest from late June supplied by their office.

Forrests step down as co-chairs of Minderoo

Billionaire Andrew Forrest said he had opted to step aside to focus on his work as executive chairman of iron ore miner Fortescue.

Brad Thompson

International aidNation

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 26, 2024: Dr Andrew Forrest AO, Global Business and Philanthropic Leader, addresses the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra on

Forrests in fresh donation for Gaza aid

The latest donation from the Forrests will deliver more than 1.5 million meals into Gaza, and assist in improving water and sanitation in the region.

scamsTechnology

(FILES) Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, testifies during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing

Meta’s slow burn on removing scams

For years Meta has ‘published the content of criminals’ via scam ads on Facebook, fleecing unsuspecting Aussies. But it says it is changing its ways – albeit slowly.

PERTH, AUSTRALIA _Newswire photos JUNE 18 2024. Premier Li visits Fortestcue in Hazelmere. With Andrew

Fortescue secures first win over Element Zero in court fight

Andrew Forrest and two former executives who left to start their own green steel company say they are looking forward to a courtroom battle in their dispute over intellectual property.

Angelica Snowden

DATAROOMDataRoom

PACIFIC OCEAN (June 23, 2022) Royal Australian Navy (RAN) ship HMAS Warramunga (FFGHM 152), USS Gridley (DDG 101) and USS Sampson (DDG 102) sail in formation with Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (ABECSG), Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and RAN ships. ABECSG is underway conducting routine operations in the U.S. 3rd Fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Aleksandr Freutel) *** Local Caption *** Five Royal Australian Navy ships across two task groups are currently conducting regional presence deployments throughout the Indo-Pacific region. During their deployments the ships and their embarked ADF units will undertake joint exercises and other engagements with Australiaâs regional partners. Regional Presence Deployments demonstrate Australiaâs commitment to promoting an open, inclusive and resilient Indo-Pacific. These deployments play a vital role in Australiaâs long term security and prosperity by protecting Australiaâs interests, preserving a rules-based order, enhancing cooperation and relationships with regional partners and allies and developing capability and interoperability. During their deployment HMA Ships Canberra, Supply and Warramunga joined five ships from the United States Navy Abraham Lincoln Strike Group and two ships from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force for the sail to Pearl Harbor for Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2022 (RIMPAC). RIMPAC will see approximately 1,600 ADF personnel participate. This year the ADF contribution is substantial including HMA Ships Canberra, Supply and Warramunga, RAAF P-8A Poseidon aircraft, a submarine, mine warfare and clearance diving capabilities, and a Joint Landing Force led by the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment accompanied by personnel and capabilities from across Australian Army units.

Hanwha calls time on $1bn Austal pursuit

Hanwha has made efforts to buy Austal for a year but is now walking away.

MiningMining & Energy

Fortescue battery operated haul truck. Photo: Supplied

Fortescue’s mining fleet to go green with mega $4bn truck order

Billionaire Andrew Forrest has challenged the mining sector to follow his company’s lead, after striking a $4bn deal with Liebherr for battery-powered trucks and excavators.

Cameron England

GovernanceCompanies

Clockwise from top right: Harvey Norman executive chair Gerry Harvey, WiseTech Global CEO Richard White, Flight Centre CEO Graham Turner and Fortescue executive chairman Andrew Forrest.

Directors with ‘skin in the game’ reap rewards

Twiggy Forrest, Gerry Harvey and other top directors will pocket mountains of dividends in coming weeks and analysts say it’s good for all shareholders that they have “skin in the game”.

MiningMining & Energy

Visitors cast shadows as they look out over part of the main pit of Newcrest Mining Ltd.'s Telfer Mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia Thursday, July 28, 2005. The mine, which was officially opened today, will be Australia's largest gold and copper producer. Photographer: Will Burgess/Bloomberg News

Greatland Gold’s Telfer buy to underpin ‘generational’ project

Greatland Gold has bought Newmont’s Telfer gold mine with support from billionaire Andrew Forrest, and has ambitions to build a long-term gold and copper mining hub.

Cameron England

Margin CallMargin Call

Fortescue's Andrew Forrest (second left) with Claudia Blanch, Emily Ward and Damien Rogers

Leaked photos capture the demise of Forrest’s pipedream

Every picture tells a story, they say, and these ones clearly show the absurdity of the dream versus reality of what has come to pass for Andrew Forrest’s green energy aspirations.

Yoni Bashan and Nick Evans

CommentaryMining & Energy

ON HOLD : Embargoed for The Daily telegraph. 15.8.2024 Dr Andrew Forrest stands in front of a new green energy haul truck. The Christmas Creek mine is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, 61 km south-south-west of Nullagine. Picture: Rohan Kelly

Forrest’s big challenge with Fortescue

Investors in Fortescue Metals Group, who just want its healthy dividend stream to keep going, are having to live with a lot of ‘green sky’.

Glenda Korporaal

TechnologyBusiness

Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg testifies during a US House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing about Facebook on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 11, 2018. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

NAB report blasts Meta, other social media’s tardiness on scams

Almost half of all Australians believe Facebook’s owner and social media giants are doing ‘not much at all’ to combat scams, a NAB report reveals.

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, listens as he testifies during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing,

Judge dismisses Meta’s appeal against Twiggy’s war on scams

The mining billionaire says he has secured another crucial victory against the US social media giant, with his legal action now progressing to discovery.

Andrew Forrest pictured along Swan River, Perth WA. Forrest has written a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticising his lack of action over fake ads. PHOTO: MARIE NIRME

Meta steps up fight against Forrest over scam ads

The social media giant has hired a lawyer who is helping Kamala Harris battle Donald Trump for its appeal against a win for Andrew Forrest in his war on scam advertisements.

CourtsLegal Affairs

Former Fortescue (L-R) Chief Scientist Bart Kolodziejczyk and CFO Michael Masterman arriving at the Federal Court today. Fortescue is suing the two former executives of misuse of its intellectual property when they left to start a rival green iron technology company Element Zero. Jane Dempster/the Australian.

Fortescue insists spying on rival’s families wasn’t inappropriate

Ex-Fortescue executives have heard that spying on their families and their ‘green iron’ start-up was part of a regular court requirement to grant raids.

Angelica Snowden

Legal affairsLegal Affairs

PERTH, AUSTRALIA _Newswire photos JUNE 18 2024., Premier Li visits Fortestcue in Hazelmere. With Andrew

Fortescue ‘portrayed former execs as dishonest’, court told

Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue tried to paint former executives who started a rival business as shady actors in order to persuade a judge to allow the company to raid their homes.

Angelica Snowden

Mining and energyMining & Energy

Andrew Forrest stands in front of the hydrogen-powered haul truck prototype, dubbed “Europa”. Picture: Mohammad Alfares

Forrest shrugs off iron ore price pullback

Mining magnate Andrew Forrest has shrugged off a fall in iron ore prices, arguing lower steel production in China was a normal part of the long-term commodity cycle.

Mohammad Alfares

courtsMining & Energy

01-05-2023 - Andrew Forrest pictured at Fortescue Metals’ new Iron Bridge magnetite project.

Fortescue directed actions of private investigators

Fortescue executives were directly involved in overseeing private investigators that followed former employees and their families, court documents show.

EditorialEditorials

Hard lessons on climate continue

Hard lessons on climate continue

Jumping on the ESG bandwagon is not as easy or profitable as was hoped. Predicting the future, and picking industry winners, can appear very different on paper and in reality.

Editorial

miningMining & Energy

Indigenous leader Noel Pearson at the Gold Coast mosque at Southport to talk about the referendum.Picture Glenn Hampson

Forrest brings Pearson on board

Noel Pearson’s invitation to join the Fortescue board is the culmination of a long relationship between the Indigenous leader and Andrew Forrest.

DATAROOMDataRoom

This handout photo taken and released on March 5, 2024 by the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit 2024 shows Australian businessman Andrew Forrest speaking during the 50th ASEAN-Australia Special Summit in Melbourne. (Photo by Penny STEPHENS / ASEAN-Australia Special Summit 2024 / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

JPMorgan sells $1.9bn Fortescue stake for ‘undisclosed’ vendor

Shares in the Perth-based iron ore miner were being auctioned off after the market closed on Monday.

commentaryMedia

The Australian 60TH Gala Dinner arrivals at The Australian Museum (L-R) Fortescue CEO Andrew Forrest. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

Scepticism is a crucial element in the energy mix

As evidenced by the reaction to Andrew Forrest’s green hydrogen backdown, journalists need to be especially sceptical testing claims in-line with their biases.

commentaryCompanies

A worker walks through the Queensland Curtis Liquefied Natural Gas (QCLNG) project site, operated by QGC Pty, a unit of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, in Gladstone, Australia, on Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Gas from more than 2,500 wells travels hundreds of miles by pipeline to the project, where it's chilled and pumped into 10-story-high tanks before being loaded onto massive ships. Photographer: Patrick Hamilton/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Gas imports to ease the energy crisis could arrive sooner

The hand-picked boss of billionaire Andrew Forrest’s Squadron Energy will have his work cut out bringing down energy prices.

CommentaryCommentary

CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - July 17, 2024: Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen addresses the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Chris Bowen is lost in a Forrest of green energy hubris

Bowen was remarkably sanguine last week at the Press Club about the implosion of Andrew Forrest’s green hydrogen plan. Hours later, Twiggy’s Fortescue Metals was kicking its target down the road to Never Never Land.

LettersLetters

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Bubble bursts for Labor’s green hydrogen dreams

Andrew Forrest says Labor should push ahead with billions of taxpayer dollars in tax incentives for green hydrogen, yet his own actions reveal a starkly different stance.

ExclusiveMining & Energy

Robert Lancaster pics for Fortescue PI story

The veteran PI hired by Fortescue to spy on its ex-employees

A former SAS soldier turned PI is the man behind an extraordinary investigation into Andrew Forrest’s former staff, and he’s led a colourful life.

Angelica Snowden and Nick Evans

MiningMining & Energy

11/11/2020 CEO Elizabeth Gaines listens as Andrew Forrest speaks from overseas at Fortescue Metals AGM in Perth Convention Centre. Pic Colin Murty the Australian

Fortescue now marching ‘to the one beat’: Forrest

Andrew Forrest caught the market by surprise in 2020 when he laid out his vision for a green energy giant. And even after a tumultuous four years, he insists his dream is not dead.

LAST POSTLetters

Re-evaluate hydrogen investment

Re-evaluate hydrogen investment

Andrew Forrest’s admission that Fortescue cannot meet its 2030 goal is telling.

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