The Australian Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan says Australian billionaire and entrepreneur Twiggy Forrest always has a “tremendous self-glorifying element to all the stud he does”.
The Australian Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan says Australian billionaire and entrepreneur Twiggy Forrest always has a “tremendous self-glorifying element to all the stud he does”
Twiggy Forrest has been in the news with his self-proclaimed heroism in getting the first shipment of grain out of Ukraine after secretly travelling to Kyiv. “I never know how seriously to take anything of this stuff … his intervention in geopolitical matter like Australia-China relations are either embarrassingly silly or counterproductive,” Mr Sheridan told Sky News Australia.Read More
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