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Why just Clive and PUP? What about the other cringe worthy historical nutters like Barnaby, Pyne, Katter, Mirabella, O'Dwyer , Bronwyn, Hanson Young, Tuckey, Latham, etc
Clive more so than any other high profile politician on the federal stage is only in it for himself. It's about furthering (or saving ?) his business interests and at the expense of the nation if necessary as demonstrated by his recent comments about China.Why just Clive and PUP?
Clive more so than any other high profile politician on the federal stage is only in it for himself. It's about furthering (or saving ?) his business interests and at the expense of the nation if necessary as demonstrated by his recent comments about China.
His party has no underlying ideology other than Clive, Clive, Clive. That over time will be a too smaller space for his senators to operate in and the cracks there are already publically showing with Jacquie Lambie.
There's not enough room for those two at the top of any outfit.
Clive Palmer has been overheard questioning the intelligence of outspoken Palmer United Party Senator Jacqui Lambie, in a conversation with colleague Zhenya "Dio" Wang at Parliament on Tuesday, according to sources.
It comes as cracks emerge within the minor party particularly over Senator Lambie's inflammatory comments on Islamic law, which she claimed "involves terrorism".
But in a bizarre twist, Senator Lambie's media adviser emailed her response to questions from Fairfax Media to all journalists in the Parliamentary press gallery, in which she denied her leader said she was "not very bright" and inisisted that Mr Palmer had instead made those comments about her colleague Senator Wang
Poor old Uncle Clive......he does not seem to be having luck at all lately....another court action lost.
I would hate to be paying his legal bills.
The actual dollars might be irrelevant, but his losing - after all his bluster - isn't.LOL noco;
as a percentage of available funds, for you or me it will probably amount to a cup of coffee or a cheap bottle of RedBut in absolute terms, some towns may wish they had an annual budget of that size.
Which of his senate pussycats does Uncle Clive think is a dodo ?
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...palmer-and-jacqui-lambie-20140923-10koq9.html
Clive Palmer is a sick power drunk vindictive man....I mean what in the hell is this country coming to with this type of behavior?
The senate has set up this committee with Lazzarith as chair of the the committee with one Liberal senator.
IMHO., that is a conflict of interest and it is a personal vindetta by Palmer to pay back Newman for not giving Palmer what he wanted....Can you imagine what would have happened if the Newman Government had given special favors to a life member of the Liberal Party?.............The Labor Party and the media would have been all over it.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...075704753?sv=635bd8885bbcc6d29528f0b745027a49
Haven't been following it much, but does seem to indicate there will be a lot of Senate investigations going on.
Sounds like it is a bit of Palmer saying to Newman,"mines bigger than your's".
Politics continue their ever accelerating decline.
The pro republic movement must be rubbing their hands with glee, it just shows how out of touch voters are, when Palmer was voted in.
Then again, the last Government showed how useless you can be and still win a pension, that resulted in everyone and sundry nominating.
I don't believe we will see Palmer win a second term.
He will probably finish up in the "JUG" for fraud before his term runs out.
Qldrs will not take kindly to this type of parliamentary abuse or federal interference being exacted.
CLIVE Palmer wants a penetrating public inquiry in Queensland. He wants to expose dishonesty and corruption. Shameless standover tactics by big business bullying a government must be highlighted. He promises to root out this wickedness and more.
Let’s give the tycoon what he wants. A public inquiry is a brilliant idea.
But it must examine the allegedly fraudulent, often unhinged, economically destructive, environmentally reckless and usually embarrassing conduct of Clive Frederick Palmer, businessman, serial litigant and leader of the Palmer United Party.
A fearlessly independent Palmer inquiry, run under Queensland legislation with its wide powers to compel witnesses, discover documents and indem*nify whistleblowers, would represent money well spent. It might salvage something from Palmer’s wreckage.
Unlike the cartoonish Senate probe, in which obedient PUP senator Glenn Lazarus pockets a salary boost to traipse across the state with Labor and the Greens to damage Premier Campbell Newman, an inquiry into Palmer is completely justifiable.
The taxpayers who fund the salaries, perks and related costs of the PUP circus deserve nothing less than a forensic investigation to unlock the secret to Palmer’s political rise.
Because as evidence in the *Supreme Court in Brisbane indicates, Palmer, a member of the House of Representatives, as well as Zhenya Wang, Jacqui Lambie and Lazarus in the Senate won their political stripes after China’s money ”” millions of dollars ”” were allegedly taken from a bank account to fund PUP’s extravagant election campaign.
Two cheques (one of $10m and the other $2.167m) signed by Palmer in August and early September last year saw those funds, which had been deposited by China’s state-owned company, *siphoned from an account called “Port Palmer Operations”, and spent on everything but the operations of a port in a remote part of Australia.
Those are grounds straight away for a commission of inquiry, surely.
A serving politician, the leader of a party controlling the balance of power in the Senate, no less, accused of misappropriating more than $12 million from Australia’s most important trading partner after it had spent $8 billion here on an iron ore project.
Did he confuse “port” with “PUP”? When he drew the $2.167m cheque for Brisbane *advertising agency Media Circus Network, then invoiced the *Chinese for “port management services”, did he weigh the repercussions? We may find out if he is examined under oath in a Palmer inquiry.
Forget about the old bottle of Grange Hermitage that cost Barry O’Farrell his gig as NSW premier. Put aside the aspirational generosity of property developers *tipping cash into the pockets of O’Farrell’s Liberal Party *colleagues.
Never mind the home renovations that Julia Gillard’s builder, Athol James, testified were paid with cash from the former PM’s allegedly corrupt boyfriend, Bruce Wilson, who controlled a dodgy union slush fund.
Craig Thomson’s “Turbo Room” hookers, Kathy Jackson’s junkets, even Michael Williamson’s holiday pad at the beach ”” it’s important stuff if that is the best we’ve got to investigate, but it pales in comparison with the richness of a Palmer brief of evidence.
In terms of financial scale, public interest, international relations and bang-for-your-buck, it would be impossible to trump an investigation into Queensland’s tycoon.
And after a retired judge running the Palmer inquiry has tracked the $12m money trail from Beijing to Canberra, the lawyers and sleuths can focus on other disturbing evidence.
The dumping of toxic waste into wetlands on the edge of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park near Townsville because Palmer refused to contain it properly with tailings dams at his nickel refinery would need to be examined.
Palmer’s demands of Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney for preferential treatment and approvals to enable development of Galilee Basin coal assets should not be overlooked.
The use of lawyers and legal *actions to gag or damage critics and former employees might also produce some zinger evidence.
Memo to Newman and his *Attorney-General, Jarrod Bleijie: if you need any help writing the terms of reference for the Palmer inquiry, yell out.
Andrew Bolt,Is it possible the Greens have led Palmer into his own tangled web in an attempt to rid the Palmer United Party to save their own Party.
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