Post by ck4829 on Feb 23, 2022 10:14:39 GMT
A billionaire’s boast: $100 million to tip the next federal election
Clive Palmer had the perfect set for his latest media performance: his luxury super yacht, Australia, which the noisiest most obnoxious billionaire reportedly bought for $40 million last year. It was there that he gave fellow right-wing billionaire Rupert Murdoch’s Australian an interview about the $100 million he plans to spend to influence the coming federal election.
The Italian-made super yacht boasts two sundecks, an outdoor and indoor bar, a jacuzzi, and a VIP suite. But it flies the flag of Bermuda because, ironically, Palmer couldn’t register the patriotic name for his party in Australia!
Palmer’s yacht is anchored in Circular Quay, just off the 5-star Park Hyatt At The Rocks Hotel, while his defamation case against Western Australian Labor Premier Mark McGowan is being heard in the Federal Court in Sydney.
He told the Australian’s John Stenholt that his United Australia Party (UAP) would exceed its $88 million advertising blitz — which is widely believed to have cost Labor the last federal election — with a $100 million war chest.
One hundred million dollars was “only a couple of months’ work for me,” Palmer boasted.
Leaving aside how this stretches the meaning of the word “work”, Palmer’s boast is another reminder about how the billionaire class blatantly undermines democracy.
www.greenleft.org.au/content/billionaires-boast-100-million-tip-next-federal-election
Clive Palmer had the perfect set for his latest media performance: his luxury super yacht, Australia, which the noisiest most obnoxious billionaire reportedly bought for $40 million last year. It was there that he gave fellow right-wing billionaire Rupert Murdoch’s Australian an interview about the $100 million he plans to spend to influence the coming federal election.
The Italian-made super yacht boasts two sundecks, an outdoor and indoor bar, a jacuzzi, and a VIP suite. But it flies the flag of Bermuda because, ironically, Palmer couldn’t register the patriotic name for his party in Australia!
Palmer’s yacht is anchored in Circular Quay, just off the 5-star Park Hyatt At The Rocks Hotel, while his defamation case against Western Australian Labor Premier Mark McGowan is being heard in the Federal Court in Sydney.
He told the Australian’s John Stenholt that his United Australia Party (UAP) would exceed its $88 million advertising blitz — which is widely believed to have cost Labor the last federal election — with a $100 million war chest.
One hundred million dollars was “only a couple of months’ work for me,” Palmer boasted.
Leaving aside how this stretches the meaning of the word “work”, Palmer’s boast is another reminder about how the billionaire class blatantly undermines democracy.
www.greenleft.org.au/content/billionaires-boast-100-million-tip-next-federal-election