Clive Palmer thread

[nero_bolt]

All things Clive can be posted here

He is a BULLY of the worst kind..... 

He will threaten and bully anyone that doesnt do what Clive wants. 

Its looking more and more like he is a liar and a fraudster as well and the Chinese govt is after him over a lot of missing money..... 

Clive likes to bully and threaten women as well.... 

Clive Palmer calls for clerk of Senate Rosemary Laing to resign

Billionaire politician Clive Palmer has called for the clerk of the Senate to resign unless she is able to maintain impartiality, following a staff email she wrote implying Mr Palmer was a bully.

A leaked internal email sent to Senate staff on Thursday, and obtained by Fairfax Media, reveals clerk of the Senate Rosemary Laing warned staff not to tolerate ''unacceptable behaviour'' and made reference to the ''conduct of a member of the House of Representatives''.

While the email does not directly name the MP, it was widely reported two weeks ago that there was an altercation between Dr Laing and Mr Palmer, the member for Fairfax, over amendments to the carbon tax repeal bill.

Mr Palmer, leader of the Palmer United Party, was annoyed that the clerk would not distribute amendments put up by one of his senators, Glenn Lazarus.

The clerk argued that the amendments were effectively a monetary bill and constitutionally could not originate in the Senate.

In her staff bulletin issued on Thursday, Dr Laing warned against what she described as workplace bullying.

''You all have the right to a safe workplace and that includes the right to step away from - and report - bullies, whatever their status,'' she wrote. ''None of you need have any contact with the member in question if you feel at all threatened or intimidated by him.''

Mr Palmer told Fairfax Media he did not raise his voice during the exchange and said he told the clerk: ''If you do not circulate this amendment by Senator Lazarus I will challenge [your] position in the High Court.''

But on Thursday Mr Palmer took that position further. ''Australian democracy is far more important than this issue. The clerk is supposed to be impartial; if she is not up to the job, resign,'' he said.

Fairfax Media approached Dr Laing's office for comment, but was told she is on leave. The deputy clerk of the Senate refused to comment on the matter.

In the email, Dr Laing also took a swipe at the behaviour of the press gallery over the past two weeks of Parliament, describing reports of the carbon tax repeal negotiations as ''unethical''.

''In all of my years here, I do not believe I have seen anything so unethical from the press as this … [including a] disgraceful episode of press gallery members eavesdropping on private negotiations in the corridors over the carbon tax repeal legislation and writing stories on that basis,'' she wrote.

Last week all the major parties and the crossbench in the Senate - except for the PUP and Motoring Enthusiast senator Ricky Muir - spoke in praise of the clerk.

President of the Senate Stephen Parry said: ''I have full confidence in the clerk of the Senate and her officers. All Senate staff serve the Senate in an entirely professional and impartial way and I reject any claims to the contrary.''

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/clive-palmer-calls-for-clerk-of-senate-rosemar...

[debra9275]

if he forces the libs to keep the school kids bonus, then  he's doing OK in my book 

[nero_bolt]

---

@debra9275 wrote:

if he forces the libs to keep the school kids bonus, then  he's doing OK in my book 

---

  WHY?

Is this the age of welfare and handouts entitlement I see from you...  

2 years ago we never had the school kids bonus until labor hand a thought bubble and decided to give away more of our money to people who dont have to account for it at all and can spend it and waste it as they see fit....  

2 years ago if you spent X dollars up to a set amount on your kids schooling you kept the receipts and claimed it on your tax..... 

And now we see comments like yours and the welfare hand out mentality continues to grow in this country 

This is MY tax dollars and I object to this handout to the welfare mentality....

[debra9275]

we haven't had any kids at school for a few years so we never had the current school kids bonus. like you we used reciepts against our tax. If you have a few kids going to school at the same time ( & most people do) it's expensive!

that tax receipt system  was OK too, so if they revert back to that that's OK by me. as long as they as they have something in place

[debra9275]

I don't want our hard earned tax dollars going to that rdiculous PPL to people who don't really need  it

[nero_bolt]

Clive Palmer goes on rant against China on Q&A, claims China govt are ‘mongrels’ who kill their own people and want to take over Australia 

On Q&A last night, Mr Palmer likened the Chinese government to “mongrels” and called them “b*stards” who wanted to “take over our country”.

In a broad spray the maverick MP accused the “communist Chinese government” of trying to take over Australia’s ports to steal the nation’s natural resources. “I don’t mind standing up against the Chinese **bleep**s and stopping them from doing it,” he said on Q&A.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/clive-palmer-goes-on-rant-against-china-on-qa-claims-china-gov...

http://www.news.com.au/national/clive-palmer-goes-on-rant-against-china-on-qa-claims-china-govt-are-...

Yep kill our biggest trading partner..... 131 BILLION a year worth of trade between us and China..... Clive sure is not helping...

 Penny Wong silent

Clive Palmer plays the race card as Labor’s Penny Wong, herself Chinese, sits by without a single protest or mention of 18C:

In a broad spray the maverick MP accused the “communist Chinese government” of trying to take over Australia’s ports to steal the nation’s natural resources. “I don’t mind standing up against the Chinese **bleep**s and stopping them from doing it,” he said on Q&A....

He said ... he’d keep up the fight against the “Chinese mongrels”.

“I’m saying that because they’re communist, because they shoot their own people, they haven’t got a justice system and they want to take over this country,” he said.

The Chinese “**bleep**s” Palmer refers to are in this case his own Chinese partners. The take-over of this country he denounces is the investment he himself sold them. 

[fourandsixpants]

Go Clive!

Palmer is telling the truth. Got the experience, b*lls and guts to tell it like it is. It is not racism btw....this is how the Chinese do business fgs - money orientated all the time, intensely focused, charming but cut throat and ruthless.

Mr Palmer will do well in politics ONLY because most of the rest of them, on all sides of the paddock are just a bunch of mamby-pamby, lying, inexperienced in business and life, idiots intent on saying whatever Murdoch, Banksters, Corporate and favoured lobby groups (e.g. Real Estate mob) tell them to say......not saying what is best for Australia and majority of Australians.

So, while these 'children' continue taunting each other with "My Daddy's going to beat up your Daddy....." s hit Clive Palmer will do well telling it how it is and telling the Australian public what they want to hear. 

I would not want to see Mr Palmer as PM....but I would prefer him to Abbott

Penny Wong is a brilliant, acutely intelligent and graceful lady whom I hope will lead our country Australia oneday in the very near future - just hope many other voters can see what is clearly visible to me.

Penny Wong is not 'Chinese' btw, she was born in Malaysia. Her Father is a Malay-Chinese and Mother of European descent.

Check your sources nero but I think you will discover that Penny Wong is Australian.LOL !!

[karliandjacko]

---

@nero_wulf wrote:

 Penny Wong silent

Clive Palmer plays the race card as Labor’s Penny Wong, herself Chinese, sits by without a single protest or mention of 18C:

In a broad spray the maverick MP accused the “communist Chinese government” of trying to take over Australia’s ports to steal the nation’s natural resources. “I don’t mind standing up against the Chinese **bleep**s and stopping them from doing it,” he said on Q&A....

He said ... he’d keep up the fight against the “Chinese mongrels”.

“I’m saying that because they’re communist, because they shoot their own people, they haven’t got a justice system and they want to take over this country,” he said.

The Chinese “**bleep**s” Palmer refers to are in this case his own Chinese partners. The take-over of this country he denounces is the investment he himself sold them. 

---

So again you take attack Wong based on someone elses opinion instead of watching yourself.  Wong, at least twice tried to interject and they just shouted over her.  By the end of the rant it was clearly time to move on and answer the final question not drag the focus back to Palmer.

[nero_bolt]

How scary is Jacqui Lambie and her puppet master and she holds one of the ballance of power in Australia.

Jacqui Lambie backs Clive Palmer with warning of Chinese ‘invasion’

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/jacqui-lambie-backs-clive-palmer-with-warning-of-ch...

THE Palmer United Party has intensified its attacks on China, with its Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie warning of the danger of an invasion of Australia, as she backed Clive Palmer’s criticism of “Chinese mongrels”.

Senator Lambie called for defence spending to be doubled to prevent Australians being enslaved by a “totalitarian foreign power” with a history of military aggression.

Hitting back following criticism of Mr Palmer’s initial remarks, Senator Lambie accused the two major parties of failing to defend the country against the rising threat.

“If anybody thinks that we should have a national security and defence policy, which ignores the threat of a Chinese Communist invasion — you’re delusional and got rocks in your head,” she wrote in an email to the media

“The Communist Chinese military capacity and level of threat to the western world democracies is at an unprecedented and historical high.

“They come at a time when Australian military spending and capacity is at historic lows. (Thanks to Labor and the Greens) 

“Today China is controlled by an aggressive, anti democratic, totalitarian government. We need to double the size and capacity of our military right now.

“Both Labor and the Liberals/Nationals have failed to build an Australian military that is able to defend us — and stop our grandchildren from becoming slaves to an aggressive, anti-democratic, totalitarian foreign power.”

Senator Lambie described as a “timely warning” Mr Palmer’s tirade on ABC television last night in which he called the Chinese government “mongrels” and “**bleep**s” who “want to take over this country” and who “shoot their own people

Senior government ministers warned of the damage to Australian trade and foreign relations, while West Australian Premier Colin Barnett said he would apologise for Mr Palmer’s “highly offensive” remarks.

Julie Bishop said she planned to tell the Chinese embassy Australia’s parliament did not share Mr Palmer’s “abusive” views.

Joe Hockey warned the PUP leader to avoid letting his personal disputes with Chinese partners “bring down the rest of Australia” when employers were trying to lift exports to the rising Asian economy.

Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce linked Mr Palmer’s outburst to the negotiations over the budget with the Palmer United Party, saying the remarks gave voters an insight into the dealings with the politician.

Labor called the remarks “unhelpful” and “unacceptable” while Shanghai Chamber of Commerce president Peter Arkell went further, labelling them “bizarre” and “dangerous”.

Mr Palmer lashed out at the Chinese government and Chinese companies during the ABC Q & A program last night when asked by host Tony Jones about allegations he used a $12 million payment from Chinese state-owned company Citic Pacific, meant to support a port operation, to pay for some of his election campaign.

“We’ve had three judgments in the Federal Court and the Supreme Court of Western Australia and an arbitration against these Chinese mongrels,” he said of the business dispute.

“I’m saying that because they’re Communist, they shoot their own people, they haven’t got a justice system and they want to take over this country. And we’re not going to let them.”

[karliandjacko]

Here is Lambie's statement

[nero_bolt]