Is Twiggy Forrest secretly negotiating world peace? 

Australians know him as the affable mining billionaire Twiggy - but is Andrew Forrest living a double life as a top-level diplomatic powerbroker? Our North Asia correspondent, Yoni Bashan, spent a while at the court of King Twiggy and joins us to discuss this charming, confounding character.

Read more about this story at theaustralian.com.au and see the video by subscribing to our YouTube channel.

Moving beyond mining, Andrew Forrest is trying to broker peace between superpowers

Fossil fuels a ‘weapon of war’ Forrest warns global CEOs at the the China Development Forum

Fortescue founder Andrew Forrest takes aim at powerful Beijing-backed entity battling with BHP

This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Kristen Amiet and edited by Joshua Burton. Our team includes Lia Tsamoglou, Tiffany Dimmack and Jasper Leak, who also composed our music. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Front brings the unrivalled journalism of Australia’s national broadsheet to audio, featuring each day’s essential page one stories, journalists’ candid take on the issues that matter and behind-the-scenes insight from our newsrooms. 

To find out more about The Front you can link here and for more from the newsroom at The Australian link here or search for The Australian in your app store.

• No. of episodes: 1,345
• Latest episode: 2026-05-06
• True Crime News Daily News

Where can you listen?