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'Playing chess' with Clive Palmer

Michael Pelly and Brad Thompson
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The 11pm dash to Government House in Perth, after passing emergency legislation to thwart Clive Palmer's $30 billion damages claim, holds the key to the billionaire's High Court challenge.

The WA government knew if it didn't get Kim Beazley's signature on the Iron Ore Processing (Mineralogy Pty Ltd) Agreement Amendment Bill 2020 by midnight, fending off Palmer would have been much harder given the events of earlier that day.

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Michael Pelly was The Australian Financial Review’s legal editor
Brad Thompson was a reporter at The Australian Financial Review
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