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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Tory Shepherd

‘Judge me on my actions’: can Andrew Forrest become Australia’s clean, green hero?

Andrew Forrest
Andrew Forrest has championed green hydrogen after making billions in the fossil fuel industry – which he now invests in a bewildering array of charitable foundations. Photograph: David Gray/Reuters

Andrew Forrest says he isn’t after power. He didn’t aim to become wealthy. The 27.2 billion dollar man just “wants to leave the world a better place”.

The American novelist John Barth wrote that “everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story”. Forrest is certainly that. But his story – including, but not limited to, the staggering success of his iron ore business and the even more staggering ambition of his clean energy plans – is writ large enough for others to read. And they don’t all see him as a white knight.

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