Donors gave $131m ahead of Australia’s 2025 election. Here’s who they are

Mining, resources and big fossil fuels donated more than $10m, or $62m if Clive Palmer’s Mineralogy donation to his Trumpet of Patriots party is included

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Clive Palmer suggests Steven Bannon hoped to ‘increase influence’ by claiming credit for 2019 election ads

Billionaire says he spoke to former Trump strategist once, when he mistook him for a potential donor, denying claims revealed in the Jeffrey Epstein files

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Clive Palmer denies Steve Bannon’s claim he was behind billionaire’s controversial 2019 Australian election ad strategy

Bannon’s claim revealed in text messages in tranche of documents released by US authorities in connection with Jeffrey Epstein

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Quoting ABC: In messages with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Steve Bannon, who was once Mr Trump's chief strategist, claimed to have directed Mr Palmer on his costly political advertising spend

"I had Clive Palmer do the $60 million anti china and climate change ads," Bannon wrote in the text chain.
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With Palmer denying Bannon, difficult to say who’s the biggest blowhard… 💨
#AUSPol #USPol #ClivePalmer #SteveBannon #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #blowhards #advertising #TrumpetOfPatriots

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#ClivePalmer - "O For Summer" (2004)

Clive passed away 11 years ago today - RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lvJ9Ln1XQI

Clive Palmer - O For Summer

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Clive Palmer’s multibillion dollar claims make a mockery of a tribunal that allows foreign investors to challenge court decisions | Patricia Ranald https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/30/clive-palmer-singapore-investments-multi-billion-dollar-claims-make-mockery-tribunal #Australianpolitics #Australianews #Climatecrisis #ClivePalmer #Environment #Fossilfuels #Coal
Clive Palmer’s multibillion-dollar claims make a mockery of a tribunal that allows foreign investors to challenge court decisions

The billionaire’s last three cases are part of a growing global list from fossil fuel companies against government decisions to reduce carbon emissions

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Clive Palmer’s multibillion-dollar claims make a mockery of a tribunal that allows foreign investors to challenge court decisions

The billionaire’s last three cases are part of a growing global list from fossil fuel companies against government decisions to reduce carbon emissions

The Guardian
Clive takes legal stoush with government to Switzerland - Michael West

Clive Palmer plans to fight an international tribunal's ruling he pay more than $13 million to the Commonwealth after it dismissed his "foreign investor" claim.

Michael West