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@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.

 

From Here

 

They should throw him in gaol like they did Pauline Hanson.

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I thought that was your opinion of him?

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@mrsorat-1yaodidt4 wrote:

Don't know what makes palmer different to the rest of the entitled  conservatives.

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Clive donates his whole MP salary to charity.

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@am*3 wrote:

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@mrsorat-1yaodidt4 wrote:

Don't know what makes palmer different to the rest of the entitled  conservatives.

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Clive donates his whole MP salary to charity.

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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.  

• Federal member for Fairfax Clive Palmer has today announced more than 100 community organisations in his electorate will receive a donation drawn directly from his parliamentary salary.

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. 

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/clive-palmer-cold-on-ice-bucket-challenge-stor...

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. 

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

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@debra9275 wrote:

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@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.

 

From Here

 

They should throw him in gaol like they did Pauline Hanson.

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I thought that was your opinion of him?

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And what makes you think it's changed?

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

Clive Palmers Army....

http://media.smh.com.au/national/selections/clive-palmers-art-of-war-5733853.html