Palmer’s lawyers failed to suppress the billionaire’s financial backing of the class action lawsuit.
Labor’s Don Farrell shrugged off the teal movement’s concern that new election spending rules will stymie independents.
The United Australia Party’s Ralph Babet will still be helping sell houses on the weekend despite quitting as a director of Babet Brothers.
A departing ABC staffer lobbed a truth bomb to their soon-to-be former colleagues,attacking a demographic lottery that screws over its younger employees.
“Today we have seen the most deplorable act of greed in Australian history,” WA Premier Mark McGowan said in Parliament.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese mocked Palmer and former Morrison government attorney-general Christian Porter,who is listed as one of nine lawyers in Palmer’s legal team.
Zero Carbon Investek,which has still to confirm if it has raised the $1.5 billion to buy Clive Palmer’s Queensland Nickel refinery business,also has investments in strategic mineral assets in Western Australia.
Clive Palmer’s Queensland Nickel company has been ordered to repay a $35.4 million loan for the businessman and former MP’s private jet plus hefty interest and currency exchange costs.
The former attorney-general,who quit politics at the last election,quietly tied the knot with his criminal lawyer partner Karen Espiner in Byron Bay recently.
The proposal for another central Queensland mine is the first to be knocked back under new federal environment laws.
As the constitutional lawyer George Williams said a few years ago:“We have donations laws you could drive a truck through”. That truck just got bigger.