Fortescue versus the Banana Republic

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From Barry Fitzgerald over the weekend:

[Andrew] Forrest has drafted in veteran communications specialist John Hurst in the Sydney office of Cannings Corporate Communications to help “shine some light on the debate in the eastern states’’.

But the drafting of Hurst does point to Forrest’s intent to make sure his complaints against the Rio and BHP expansion strategies get a full hearing in the east, knowing that West Australian Premier Colin Barnett is already on board.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.