Clive Palmer
Parties that don’t remember the past are doomed to repeat it
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- United Australia Party
Palmer trademarked ‘United Nation’ days before Hanson meeting
Clive Palmer’s latest political trademark filing sparked speculation of a right-wing alliance, but experts say it fits a pattern of “frivolous” late-night ideas.
- Cameron Atfield
- Opinion
- CBD
Clive Palmer’s $110m senator plots post-election real estate return
Ralph Babet has long insisted he’d leave politics after one term. He’s already laying the groundwork for life after public office.
- John Buckley
Kyle and Jackie O stand-off leaves millions of shares in the balance
ARN Media is expected to try and claw back millions of shares issued to Sandilands and Henderson in 2023 after terminating the duo’s contracts.
- John Buckley
Palmer admits he spoke to Trump strategist Bannon about 2019 campaign
Palmer, who told the ABC this week he had “never spoken to Bannon”, said on Wednesday he had received a short phone call from the former White House adviser.
- Rob Harris
Shorten says Bannon’s texts about Palmer show he ‘must have been doing something right’
The former Labor leader said: “I worked hard but I didn’t realise that our ambitious reform agenda resonated across the Pacific.”
- Matthew Knott and Rob Harris
Exclusive Brethren members, Gina Rinehart donate to right-wing group Advance
Clive Palmer was Australia’s biggest political donor, pouring $53 million into his failed campaign, while Coal Australia donated millions to third-party “grassroots” campaigns.
- Natassia Chrysanthos, James Massola and Brittany Busch
‘I had Clive Palmer do the … ads’: Trump lieutenant’s Australian election claim revealed in Epstein files
Trump ally Steve Bannon told paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in 2019 he had influenced an omnipresent election advertising campaign by the mining billionaire.
- Rob Harris
- Opinion
- Five Minutes with Fitz
Ex-Liberal Party powerbroker says ‘the party is over’
Walter Villatora, former campaign manager for Mike Baird and Tony Abbott, has started a new party: Reform Australia. Here is why.
- Peter FitzSimons
- Opinion
- Populism
Australia’s resisting the global populist tide. But now’s no time for smugness
Far-right populism is succeeding in the US, Britain, France and Germany. Australia won’t inexorably travel the same path.
- Nick Bryant