on 25-07-2014 11:28 AM
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.''
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02-09-2014 10:14 PM - edited 02-09-2014 10:14 PM
@icyfroth wrote:"Buffoon" is a word that comes to mind whenever I hear of Clive Palmer.
Clive Palmer has been accused of "dishonest and fraudulent" involvement in the misappropriation of more than $12 million as his estranged business partner moves to tighten the noose on the mining magnate turned politician.
They should throw him in gaol like they did Pauline Hanson.
I thought that was your opinion of him?
on 03-09-2014 12:08 AM
@mrsorat-1yaodidt4 wrote:Don't know what makes palmer different to the rest of the entitled conservatives.
Clive donates his whole MP salary to charity.
on 03-09-2014 09:54 AM
@am*3 wrote:
@mrsorat-1yaodidt4 wrote:Don't know what makes palmer different to the rest of the entitled conservatives.
Clive donates his whole MP salary to charity.
Not really, he still gets paid, the commonwealth cant direct his wages to a third party, Clive then may donate it to the charities of his choice and get the usual tax write off and tax benifit
For a person on the top marginal rate of tax, the tax deduction is worth more than the net salary given away
So all this really makes is a warm and fuzzy story but he is getting the benefits with the tax deductions.
on 03-09-2014 10:00 AM
Clive Palmer cold on Ice Bucket challenge, storms off The Project
The Palmer United Party leader was meant to appear on Channel Ten's The Project as his colleague Jacqui Lambie took the ice bucket challenge on the lawn of Parliament House on Tuesday night.
But moments before his cross, Mr Palmer became enraged, swearing and walking off set. On his way, he overturned a bucket of ice, which may have been reserved for himself. A producer for the show was splashed.
"Look, that's the last time I'm on The Project," he said.
"I just don't like the ice bucket challenge . . . It's my business, see you later," he told The Daily Telegraph.
Senator Lambie, wearing shorts and an "I Love Tassie" t-shirt, went ahead with the soaking, which raises money for ALS and motor neurone disease.
Asked whether Mr Palmer would ever do the ice bucket challenge, a dripping Senator Lambie replied diplomatically, "I can't see him doing it today, no".
It is not the first time the PUP leader - known for abrupt endings to his press conferences - has stalked off a TV set.
"Goodbye, see you later," he told interviewer Sarah Ferguson on ABC's 7:30 in June, before taking out his earpiece and leaping to his feet.
on 03-09-2014 10:24 AM
It seems his Chinese partners no longer just want money from Palmer but justice:
CLIVE Palmer tried unsuccessfully to repay $11 million to China five days after revelations from a Federal Court hearing, bank statements and legal documents raised serious claims he had wrongfully siphoned huge sums to bankroll his political campaign.
Documents filed in the Supreme Court in Brisbane show a bank cheque for $11,345,013 was authorised by the Palmer United Party leader on May 13, following the legal action launched by Citic Pacific and reports in The Australian days earlier..
Lawyers for Citic Pacific, China’s international investment vehicle that has poured about $10 billion into a disastrous iron ore development based on Mr Palmer’s tenements in Western Australia, returned the two largest cheques. The Australian understands the cheques were returned as the Chinese decided they wanted the courts to make findings about the conduct of Mr Palmer and his companies, which are accused by Citic Pacific of acting fraudulently and dishonestly.
Palmer denies any wrongdoing. The way Citic is playing this suggests it wants to take this all the way and put Palmer out of action for good.
on 03-09-2014 11:33 AM
Clive's got Tony Abbott and big Joe Hockey on the run
We love him in households around the nation
To us, Clive’s number one.......
Clive Palmer seems to have come to the rescue of young unemployed Australians, vowing to scuttle the Government’s plan to deny under-30s access to unemployment benefits for six months. From The Australian:
CLIVE Palmer may have given the kiss of death to the Abbott government’s apparent compromise on tough new dole rules for young unemployed people…
“If we support those things, we have got to say are we in favour of increased youth suicide or are we in favour of increased crime,” Mr Palmer told reporters.
Nor does the government have the backing of another key crossbencher.
“I wouldn’t support allowing a genuine jobseeker to have to wait for (even) one day,” Family First senator Bob Day said…
The welfare sector hopes Mr Palmer will stay true to his word in what it says is a “high stakes” game on young peoples’ lives.
This is great news that will hopefully bury, once and for all, the Coalition’s egregious plan to punish those afflicted by the scourge of youth unemployment.
http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2014/09/palmer-saves-young-unemployed/
....hope he does not 'flip-flop' on this issue as did with some other issues IMO
on 03-09-2014 11:39 AM
@debra9275 wrote:
@icyfroth wrote:"Buffoon" is a word that comes to mind whenever I hear of Clive Palmer.
Clive Palmer has been accused of "dishonest and fraudulent" involvement in the misappropriation of more than $12 million as his estranged business partner moves to tighten the noose on the mining magnate turned politician.
They should throw him in gaol like they did Pauline Hanson.
I thought that was your opinion of him?
And what makes you think it's changed?
on 03-09-2014 11:49 AM
where did I say it had?
I asked
debra9275 wrote:
So, has your opinion of him changed or do you still see him as all things posted above?
& you replied
Remind me. What was my opinion of Mr Palmer
Other that I had no real opinion of him?
Oh hang on I did think he was just bit of detraction from the real politics of Aus.
But what are the "real" politics of Aus, after all?
so I did as you requested
on 05-09-2014 12:48 PM
on 05-09-2014 03:48 PM
Clive Palmers Army....
http://media.smh.com.au/national/selections/clive-palmers-art-of-war-5733853.html