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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on 25-08-2014 09:25 AM
kudo for the funny pic nero.....but I have to correct you ref slogan on the 'tree trunk' being a wee bit presumptious at this stage Dear!.....this may prove to only be the outcome for a 1st round?!
on 25-08-2014 06:28 PM
Fact check: Palmer United Party Senator Jacqui Lambie incorrect on defence spending
Read it all here
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-25/jacqui-lambie-defence-spending-fact-check/5681688
The verdict
Defence spending was 1.71 per cent of GDP in 2013-14, and is projected to be higher in 2014-15.
In 1938-39 it was 1.5 per cent. The lowest it has been since then is 1.62 per cent in 2002-03 and again in 2012-13.
Defence spending as a ratio of GDP is not the lowest it's been since before World War II.
Senator Lambie is incorrect.
on 26-08-2014 11:25 AM
Today
Kingmaker Clive Palmer emerged from a meeting of PUP senators in Canberra to declare one of the budget's measures, the proposed $7 GP fee dead.
"The co-payment will not be happening, we unanimously decided that we wouldn't support a co-payment of even one cent. So there's no question - there won't be a co-payment," Mr Palmer said.
on 27-08-2014 09:39 AM
This ignorant fool of a woman is in for 6 long years.
Not only does she appear to have mental issues, her gabbing big mouth puts this country at risk with our trading partner, China.
PALMER United Party senator Jacqui Lambie won’t apologise for warning of a Chinese invasion of Australia, despite her leader saying sorry for his anti-China rant.
Mr Palmer has apologised to the “Chinese people everywhere” for last week describing China’s government as “mongrels” and “**bleep**s” who shoot their own people
Senator Lambie said the PUP leader had little choice because “people are still quite irate about his comments”.
However, she would not offer a similar apology for her China invasion warning, in which she said Australia needed to double the size of it military to “stop our grandchildren from becoming slaves to an aggressive, anti-democratic totalitarian foreign power”.
The outspoken Tasmanian senator today declared: “I’m not backing down.”
“I don’t see why I would offer an apology when I’m actually speaking about the Chinese communist regime and not the Chinese people,” she told ABC Radio.
“I’m very grateful to the Chinese people and having them as trading partners and I certainly know my Tasmania is.”
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop she hoped Senator Lambie would follow Mr Palmer’s belated apology.
“I hope that Senator Lambie likewise reflects on the comments that she’s made and the potential for harm with one of our largest trading partners,” she told ABC radio
on 27-08-2014 09:52 AM
on 27-08-2014 10:52 AM
@donnashuggy wrote:It's better than an insincere apology
Yes it was very a insincere apology and more than likely forced on Clive due to his business interests and the fact the Chinese have made him a rich person and he wants to try and continue to do business with them
The Chinese have very long memories and will get Clive.. Its going to cost him big time...
Clive does not look very well in his TV interviews yesterday and watching him walk was painful,,,, Some serious health issues can be seen as he walks, (more like a small step shuffle) in front of the cameras...
on 27-08-2014 05:04 PM
At least he does not appear to have any narcissistic character flaw issues or Quangocrat problems
- as Abbott and his neoliberal mates have.
27-08-2014 05:50 PM - edited 27-08-2014 05:51 PM
nerowulf, speaking of ill health, i was thinking exactly the same thing about abbott, he doesn't look well either, he has gone a strange orange colour and seems to have aged 15/20 years in the last few months.
and "the Chinese have long memories" is that based on scientific evidence?
on 27-08-2014 07:19 PM
@boris1gary wrote:nerowulf, speaking of ill health, i was thinking exactly the same thing about abbott, he doesn't look well either, he has gone a strange orange colour and seems to have aged 15/20 years in the last few months.
and "the Chinese have long memories" is that based on scientific evidence?
was hoping this question would have been answered because I am hoping that the Chinese people and their government have forgotten what abbott said about WW11 Japanese soldiers....
China's official news agency has slammed Prime Minister Tony Abbott for praising Japan's World War II military prowess in his welcome to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Xinhua believes Mr Abbott's admiration of Japanese war skills was appalling and "insensible" (sic) to victim countries.
"He probably wasn't aware that the Japanese troops possessed other 'skills', skills to loot, to rape, to torture and to kill. All these had been committed under the name of honour almost 70 years ago," Xinhua said in acommentary on its website.
The agency is regarded as reflecting the views of China's government.
More than any other nation, China suffered under Japan's 14-year military occupation with as many as 20 million dead.
on 28-08-2014 08:29 AM
Feuding Senators Jacqui Lambie and Glenn Lazarus go from PUPs of war to the ex-friendables
THE first cracks in Clive Palmer’s coalition have emerged, with the relationship between senate leader Jacqui Lambie and Glenn Lazarus on the brink of breakdown.
The Courier-Mail can reveal minor parties are circling Senator Lambie, who only joined the Palmer United Party (PUP) because the party agreed to fund her campaign.
It can also be revealed non-PUP Independents have had private discussions with Senator Lambie with a view to coaxing her to join a new Independent voting bloc that would include Motoring Enthusiast Party Ricky Muir, Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm, and Family First’s Bob Day.
Senator Lambie, who has previously been a Labor volunteer and a Liberal Party candidate, reportedly believes she should have been made leader of the party in the Senate. She remains unhappy at how Senator Lazarus was parachuted into the position.
Mr Palmer is so concerned about his PUPs he walked out of Question Time in the House of Representatives on Monday to keep watch over his senators.
He was later spotted in deep talks with Senator Lazarus and fellow PUP Dio Wang, but Senator Lambie was not involved.
Locked into a six-year term, those close to Senator Lambie believe her brand could flourish if she escaped the Clive Palmer shadow. Sources said she believes her large public profile is carrying the party, while Senator Lazarus is reclusive.
One crossbencher told The Courier-Mail Senator Lambie complained months ago about Senator Lazarus appearing to have appointed himself as the leader of the PUPS in the Senate, to which she took exception.
“She basically said he can get stuffed,” the crossbencher said.
A potential new voting bloc would be more open to passing the Government’s budget measures in a compromised form.
Mr Palmer is currently holding the Abbott Government to ransom and stopping them from introducing reform.
Senator Lazarus last week described Senator Lambie as a “very spirited woman” and admitted the party didn’t always agree with each other.
Neither Mr Palmer nor Senator Lazarus were critical of Senator Lambie’s view that Australia should buy missiles to prepare for a Chinese invasion because they did not want to alienate her from the party. Senator Lambie earlier refused to apologise for her claims.
“I don’t see why I would offer an apology when I’m actually speaking about the Chinese Communist regime and I’m not speaking about the Chinese people. I’m not backing down,” she told ABC Radio.
Mr Palmer issued a formal apology to the Chinese Government this week, eight days after calling the Chinese “mongrels” who “shoot their own people.”
The Palmer United Party met yesterday morning and held a spirited meeting.
Mr Palmer’s coalition concerns increased yesterday when Senator Muir, who had pledged allegiance to PUP, said he was open to discussing a compromise on the $7 GP co-payment against the party line.
“My ears are open,” he said. “I’m happy to listen to what people have got to suggest.”