Clive Palmer

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Clive Frederick Palmer, born 26 March 1954, is an Australian businessman and politician.

He has iron ore, nickel, and coal mines.

He estimated his fortune at A$600 million in 2016, and AFR's "Rich 200" list on the Sunshine Coast, Palmer Sea Reef Golf Course at Robina, and the Palmer Gold Coast Golf Course at Robina revealed his wealth at A$409 billion in 2016.

He was the chairman of Gold Coast United FC from 2008 to 2012.

Palmer founded the Palmer United Party in April 2013, winning Fairfax's 2013 Australian federal election and serving as an MP for a term.

On May 5, 2017, he officially deregistered the party. Palmer resurgent his party in 2018 as the United Australia Party, announcing that he will run for all 151 seats and later declaring that he will run as a Queensland candidate in the Senate.

Early life

Palmer was born in Footscray Hospital in Footscray, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, on March 26, 1954. He grew up in Williamstown, a nearby suburb. Palmer's family immigrated to Queensland in 1963, and he was largely raised on the Gold Coast, where he attended Aquinas College and Southport State High School, but he also attended Toowoomba Grammar School for a short time. George Palmer, Palmer's uncle, was a travel agent, and the family traveled extensively around the world. George Palmer was also the operator of the Akron Tyre Co and the Akron Broadcasting Co and was the creator of Melbourne radio station 3AK (now known as SEN 1116).

Palmer studied law, journalism, and politics at the University of Queensland from 1973 to 1975, but did not finish the program. He earned a Bachelor of Law from the Queensland Bar Board and spent time as a clerk and interviewer for the Public Defender's Office.

Personal life

Palmer lives in a gated mansion on Sovereign Islands, an exclusive area on the Gold Coast. "Mr Palmer, his family, and associates own a total of 11 homes in the Sovereign Islands, a gated enclave built on reclaimed property on the banks of the Southport Broadwater," News Limited reports. Palmer also owns properties on Broadbeach Waters in Brisbane and Bulgaria's Sofia. Bora Bora Bora Bora, French Polynesia, are among Queensland's other real estates listed. In addition, his wife owns an undisclosed number of trust assets. He was reported to have invested more than A$20 million on luxury homes on the Gold Coast, Brisbane, and Perth during 2018. He is said to have three adjoining houses in Fig Tree Pocket, each costing $17.5 million and more than four hectares of land fronting the Brisbane River as of August 2020.

Palmer was married to his first wife for 22 years. He has two adult children: Michael's son and Emily, as well as a daughter. Susan Palmer, his first wife, died of cancer in 2006. He married Anna in 2007, and Mary and Lucy have two children together. Palmer, a Roman Catholic, was a leading advocate for Right to Life Australia when he was a student at University, organizing pro-life protests on campus.

Palmer was reported to have suffered a heart attack while watching a soccer game in October 2009 and was admitted to the hospital. Doctors, on the other hand, dismissed it as simply a heart palpitation. Palmer has also suffered from sleep apnoea.

Palmer tested positive for COVID-19 on February 27th, 2022, and was diagnosed with pneumonia.

Palmer purchased Adolf Hitler's Mercedes-Benz 770, as well as a Rolls-Royce that had been once owned by King Edward VIII, to be part of a display in Queensland for a planned vintage car museum.

According to Financial Review 2021 Rich List, Palmer's net worth had increased to A$4.09 billion in 2016 and 2021 was assessed as A$13.01 billion.

The Forbes list of Australia's 40 richest people appeared on the Forbes list before it widened to 50 people.

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Business career

Palmer was a real estate agent from the beginning to mid-1980s. He benefited from the Gold Coast's property boom and "retired" at the age of 29.

Palmer, George, 1985 and 1986, three firms that undertook mining exploration in Western Australia (WA). Mineralogy, a company that in 2006 had 160 billion tonnes (16010,9 short tons) of iron ore reserves in the Pilbara Ranges, in remote northern Western Australia's remote northern Western Australia, was one of them. Palmer purchased Waratah Coal in 2008. Palmer moved Mineralogy to New Zealand in December 2018 and then to Singapore in January 2019.

Mineralogy is involved in a long-running controversy with CITIC over a royal payment. In 2006, Mineralogy and CITIC signed an agreement to develop some of Palmer's iron ore deposits. Justice Kenneth Martin of the Supreme Court of Western Australia awarded Mineralogy almost $200 million in November 2017. Palmer said that the decision was "a victory for Australian law over China's Communist government powerhouses." CITIC was suing Palmer for $5 billion as of May 2019, and he had counter-sued them for $5 billion.

The WA Parliament passed an emergency bill in August 2020 to avoid a court complaint brought against Palmer's government over Mineralogy. The allegation was worth $30 billion, according to WA Attorney General John Quigley, who called it "rapacious" and equivalent to WA's annual budget. Palmer dismissed the estimate and filed a federal court challenge to the law as unconstitutional.

After BHP announced that the refinery would be closed, he bought Queensland Nickel and Cobalt Refinery in 2009. After the refinery turned a major success in the first year after purchasing the refinery, Palmer gifted Mercedes Benz cars and thousands of overseas visitors. Queensland Nickel entered voluntary administration on January 18, 2016. When Palmer retired from service more than three years ago, he refused to compensate employees who lost their jobs when Queensland Nickel closed, saying, "I have no personal responsibility" because I retired from employment over three years ago. He also sacked the employees. The federal Government was compelled to compensate the employees' healthcare because of the workers' contributions.

Following the 2019 federal election, Palmer declared in April that he intends to re-open the Queensland Nickel refinery and pay the $7.16 million owed to employees.

Palmer's bid was ineffective, according to the Special Purpose Liquidator of Queensland Nickel, since it did not include the funds owed to small businesses, and it was unclear whether the Federal Government would reimburse them. With a trial set to begin in July 2019, the Liquidator was demanding $200 million from Palmer, other individuals, and related entities. Through the same trial, the Australian Government was also trying to recover $70 million from Palmer personally to pay the bills for the payments made to Queensland Nickel employees. Palmer said in April 2019 that the government should compensate the government if they fire the refinery's employees, not him. 218 workers were made redundant shortly before the operation was put into voluntary administration, according to the Canberra Times.

Palmer reached an understanding two weeks into a court hearing in Queensland that was expected to cost $110 million. He promised to reimburse the federal government for the privileges it had already earned under the Fair Entitlements Guarantee (FEG), “all other outstanding employee rights, and a complete refund for the majority of unsecured creditors." Palmer maintained that the scheme should not have been initiated by the liquidators in the first place or under the terms of the Settlement Agreement, and that the Special Purpose Liquidator denied all charges against Palmer and all of the defendants associated with him. Both sides paid for the court case; Palmer personally appeared in court and represented himself. A small number of debt allegations against Mineralogy are also in dispute, as well as the courts. Palmer said that the payment had brought him "victimized." "The allegations against me today have been nothing more than a witch hunt designed to smear my good name," Palmer said.

Palmer bought the Coolum Hyatt Resort in 2011. He revealed plans to create an animatronic dinosaur park there later. Palmer ordered more than 160 animatronic dinosaurs, which included the first shipment of a 3.5-meter (11 ft) long T. rex, nicknamed "Jeff." Palmer obtained full council permission for the park on July 25, 2013, and it was expected to open to the public in 2014. The dinosaur park, now referred to as "Palmersaurus"), was open to the public on December 14th. The Australian PGA Championship was relocated from Palmer's installation of dinosaurs along the resort's golf course.

Low occupancy rates at the Palmer Coolum Resort in 2015, resulting in 600 employees losing their jobs over the course of the period after Palmer purchased the property. The ABC revealed in 2017 that "once thought to be one of south-east Queensland's most popular resorts, the site is now a shadow of its former self" and has been "entrenched" in a court contest between retirees who own villa interests and Clive Palmer." Palmer was charged with breach of the Corporation Act in 2018 in connection with a bid to take over timeshare villas at the resort in 2012. Palmer has denied the charges, saying that they are an attempt to discourage him from running for office.

In 2008, Palmer purchased the Gold Coast United football team. He made the decision in October 2009 to limit the attendance of Gold Coast United home games at Skilled Park Stadium to 5,000, in an attempt to save money by avoiding transportation subsidies on crowds over 5,000. Following a lot of backlash and only 2,616 fans attending the next home game, as well as the intervention of Football Federation Australia (FFA), the proposal was shelved.

On February 29, 2012, Ben Buckley and Frank Lowy announced that Palmer's Gold Coast United FC's deal was to be withdrawn for continued FFA laws and policies, and that he would have to pay out the players's contracts for the remaining month of the season. Lowy said he did everything possible to protect the sport's credibility. However, Palmer said he would contest the decisions by court action and that Lowy was a tyrant. Palmer said the team will remain unchanged despite a court order removing "Freedom of Speech" logos on team shirts. Palmer's Supreme Court appeal against Gold Coast United's dismissal from the A-League began on March 2, 2012.

Palmer formed Football Australia in 2012, a national football club in Australia, after the FFA disqualified his Gold Coast United A-League licence.

Palmer revealed plans to build a modern-day recreation of the liner RMS Titanic in February 2013. Titanic II was planned that it would be built in China and fly from Southampton to New York City in 2016 (later postponed to 2018). Palmer wanted to recreate the Titanic as faithfully as possible, both external and internal. According to Palmer, the Titanic II will be 883 feet (269 m) long, weigh 55,800 t) gross, and carry 2,435 passengers and 900 crew. Palmer said the Titanic II would honor those who died and survived on the Titanic. The Titanic was owned by the White Star Line and Palmer's firm, Blue Star Line.

Evidence accumulated during the first half of 2015, showing that the initiative had been abandoned. The Blue Star Line trademark was described as "abandoned." No work had been ordered in the Chinese shipyard, which had been deemed as the most likely building site, despite the fact that the site was never to proceed beyond the initial design stage. No significant funds had been spent on Titanic II development in over two years, according to the administrators of an insolvent Palmer firm, Queensland Nickel. The Blue Star Line announced that work on the project would resume on September 27, 2018 in a press release on its official website, but there has been no confirmation as of this. Despite the media's announcement, the web site had not been updated since May 2014.

Palmer created a well-known media commercial in March 2020, a disease-causing pandemic in Australia, where one million doses of a "cure" was distributed. The drug will contain hydroxychloroquine, which is also used as an anti-malarial treatment in other nations, but is also known to have significant side effects. The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), the Australian drug authority, had warned that this drug and its derivatives "pose some serious dangers to patients, including cardiac arrest, irreversible eye injury, and acute depletion of blood sugar potentially leading to coma." Palmer's TGA announced that it was considering legal proceedings against him. Other experts also criticized Palmer, arguing for safety as well as the ethics of potentially producing a shortage of the drug in countries where it is critical to fight malaria. However, Palmer later announced that the federal health service intends to import hydroxychloroquine for emergency use, despite a written deal for partial funding. Palmer launched new ads in News Corp media on April 28th, claiming to have purchased 32.9 million doses of hydroxychloroquine. Since the TGA was "not designed to promote the selling of the product," the TGA said that no action would be taken with respect to either group of advertisements. However, Harry Nespolon, the President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, cautioned that the drug tests were still underway and that they were "not looking very promising." He was also worried that "people may believe that a cure is imminent and be lulled into a false sense of stability in order that they do not practice social distancing duties."

A Queensland radio network stopped broadcasting an advertisement from Palmer that had stated: ''s '2123 pandemic had happened in June 2021.

The TGA had warned the network and Palmer that this was seriously misleading to the public: the figure of 210 deaths a few days or weeks after vaccination was found to be entirely related to the vaccine itself.

Based on the discredited death statistics, Palmer had sent letters from households around Australia advising against vaccination against COVID-19. Palmer had ignored a further warning from the TGA earlier in July, and was confirmed again in July.

Palmer had requested that his name and logo be printed on the doses of donated hydroxychloroquine. Palmer's request was turned down by the Department of Health.

Palmer argued that the closing of the borders by the Western Australian government owing to the COVID-19 pandemic was unconstitutional, and challenged the WA law in the Federal Court in July 2020. Palmer was branded an enemy of the state by Western Australian Prime Minister Mark McGowan in reaction. Palmer also predicted that the border closure would "destroy the lives of hundreds of thousands of people for decades," and that the death toll from COVID-19 was comparable to that of road accidents and influenza. After getting a public reaction to Palmer's previous supporting role, the Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison defended the campaign in August. Mark McGowan lauded the Commonwealth for its withdrawal, but suggested that the Western Australian government would continue to combat the allegations, and advising Palmer that he be labeled "Australia's highest egomaniac" and a "Olympic scale narcissist" in the lawsuit.

As the topics vetoed constitutional law, they began to involve potential conflicts between major constitutional principles: parliamentary legitimacy and the rule of law. The High Court upheld the law on November 6, 2020. In the High Court's hearing on Tuesday, October 2021, challenges to the constitutionality of amendments to the Act that were made in 2020 were dismissed.

Palmer sued McGowan for defamation, while McGowan counter-sued Palmer for defamation. On August 2, the Federal Court found that each had defamed the other, fined each a relatively small amount in fees, and warned that such a conflict between influential political figures should not have wasted the court's time and money.

Australian airline Qantas announced that all of its 22,000 workers would be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in August 2021. The Palmer Group sold off its entire interest in Qantas as a result of this.

Palmer was appointed adjunct professor of business at Deakin University's Faculty of Business and Law in June 2002, a position he held until 2006. During that period, he gave a series of lectures as part of Deakin's MBA residential programs. Palmer was named adjunct professor of management at Bond University on the Gold Coast in 2008.

Palmer was elected joint secretary general of the World Leadership Alliance in December 2012, a reform-promoting body led by former US president Bill Clinton and Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Palmer was elected president of the alliance's sector chapter, the World Economic Council.

Palmer held a buffet lunch for 650 people on Christmas Day, mainly girls and their families.

Palmer was referred to in an iPhone application as mocking Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard by having sandwiches delivered to her in July 2013. The app was criticized by News Corp Australia newspapers, who screamed it out of existence, while referring to his size in an opinion poll with an option that said, "We should have one for big Clive Palmer."

Palmer was appointed as a National Living Treasure by the New South Wales Branch of the National Trust of Australia on March 4, 2012.

Palmer donated a house, car, and food to the victims of a house fire in Beenleigh, which claimed the lives of their son tragically.

Palmer has been a fan of memes on his official Facebook page. The memes often have nonsensical or ironic undertones and have reoccurring themes, such as Rupert Murdoch's control of the media in Australia, contrasting himself with other political figures, such as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, or remarking on Tim Tam packets and his pet "Grog Dog." During a hearing on 1 December 2017, Palmer was first required to sign an affidavit relating to a tweet sent out.

Palmer threatened to sue internet comedian Jordan Shanks for $500,000 for defamation relating to a YouTube video uploaded before the May 2019 election. Palmer's video was dubbed "dense Humpty Dumpty" and a profane nickname that said Palmer was a 'Fatty McF*ckhead.' Shanks denied that he had not defamed Palmer, and that being required to prove his allegations in court would not help Palmer.

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