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Clive Palmer says Labor’s plan to cap political donations would silence ‘diversity of ideas’ (www.theguardian.com)
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"Billionaire businessman, Clive Palmer, has warned Labor against legislating electoral spending and donation caps, accusing it of attempting to “silence the diversity of ideas in this country”.

The Albanese government is preparing legislation to cap political donations and electoral spending, citing the influence of Palmer’s hundreds of millions of electoral spending, backed by donations from his company Mineralogy to the United Australia Party.

Although the reforms are backed by an inquiry into the 2022 election by the joint standing committee on electoral matters (Jscem), Palmer’s intervention into the debate spells trouble for the government, which could face a high court challenge on the basis caps infringe the implied freedom of political communication."

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[-] ItsAFake@lemmus.org 16 points 2 years ago

Hahaha no one listens to this Jabba the Hutt looking walking heart attack anyway. This useless fuck puts himself in the news with outlandish shit all the time and the press run with it just to fill a quota.

This is a dude who wanted to rebuild the Titanic which went nowhere, he wanted to make Jurassic park with "State of the art animatronics" from china, which china sent him the old crappy ones, he's a joke here and not one person with a sense of intelligence actually listens to him.

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 8 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately, people do. His party gets votes.

I hope labor also takes the opportunity to ban sms and political advertising that is banned outside of politics.

[-] ItsAFake@lemmus.org 5 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately, people do. His party gets votes.

I did say no one with a sense of intelligence listens to him lol.

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Haha, very true.

[-] CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Clive Palmer is a Fatty McFuckhead.

[-] ItsAFake@lemmus.org 5 points 2 years ago

I have one of those shirts, he's so hated that no one's ever had a go at me for it , just laughed and gone " yeah fuck Clive Palmer".

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Fuck, I googled it and he literally just yesterday had a presser saying he was doing the Titanic II thing again: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/13/clive-palmer-titanic-ii-relaunch-plans-sydney-opera-house

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