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THE curriculum vitae of well-known Brisbane company director and Labor Party stalwart Ian Brusasco, AM, is almost as extensive as the Magna Carta or the US Declaration of Independence.
There haven't been too many things that Brusasco, 83, has not turned his hand to during a distinguished career in Queensland business and politics.
And he has no plans of retiring any time soon.
"I don't know what I would do if I retired," he said.
Today Brusasco is one of the oldest serving company directors in the state, the chairman of the powerful Port of Gladstone, WorkCover and, his favourite organisation, Foodbank.
"I have done a lot in my life and this is by far the best thing I have ever done," he says of Foodbank, a charity aimed at feeding the disadvantaged that he established with the late Clem Jones, the former lord mayor of Brisbane, in 1996.
"We started Foodbank basically because charities hate one another. They are all battling each other for the same dollar," he said.
Brusasco has just formed the Foodbank Queensland Foundation, injecting the initial funds with his wife to...