, this time dishonesty offences, relating to allegations he improperly funded his successful 2013 election campaign. Palmer launched new legal challenges to both sets of criminal charges in early June, seeking to have the cases thrown out of court.
Palmer says the two cases brought so far by ASIC are politically motivated and the matters have already dealt with by the civil courts. “All of these matters have already been heard by courts around Australia and have been dismissed,” he said in July 2020 when ASIC announced the charges. But behind the at-times clownish image, Palmer has left a trail of disappointment. For many stunts and photo-ops, there have been forgotten promises or unrealised plans: an idea for a rail line linking the iron ore fields of the Pilbara in the West to the East Coast that never materialised; plans for a steel smelter in Newcastle and in Gladstone that were quietly abandoned; unfulfilled promises of a coal mine in the Galilee Basin four times the size of Adani’s project.
“He was really nice, especially towards the end of that last election, saying ‘just keep calm, you’re doing really well, you’ll get over it’,” Lambie says. “I couldn’t afford to do polling and stuff so he’d say ‘I’ve been doing the polling. It’s alright, you hold in there and they just keep doing what you’re doing’”
“Clive spent a huge amount of money in the 2019 election - around $60 million - which was mostly devoted to attacking Labor. So it would have been very helpful to the Coalition,” Turnbull said in a brief interview.“He’s never struck me as particularly ideological. Clearly Clive Palmer wants to support parties that are supportive of his agenda, which is coal mining and the like.
The cost of the infringement is pocket-change for Palmer but the stinging assessment from a judge who is widely respected could prompt other jurists to view his evidence with more caution in future. The loss also showed you could take on Palmer and beat him at his favourite pastime.
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