Clive Palmer’s wife Anna to enter Qld politics in state election
Clive Palmer’s wife Anna will contest a marginal Gold Coast seat in the Queensland election this month.
Anna Palmer has made a surprise bid to follow her billionaire husband Clive into politics, announcing she will contest a marginal Gold Coast seat at the October 31 Queensland election.
Mrs Palmer has been officially endorsed by the United Australia Party for the seat of Currumbin, held by LNP MP Laura Gerber who beat Labor’s Kaylee Campradt with a 3.3 per cent margin in a March by-election.
The move comes four years after her husband retired from the federal seat of Fairfax on the Sunshine Coast, a seat he held for three years.
Mrs Palmer said she was driven to politics because she was fed up with the “double standards” shown by Queensland Labor.
“As a mother, I am appalled with how the current Queensland Labor government is treating families,” she said in a press release.
“The Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young have shown no compassion or common sense during this pandemic.
“We have seen her true colours in the heartless treatment of Queenslanders, barring family members from hospital visits and attending funerals when there has been no sound medical grounds to do so.
“Meanwhile movie stars and celebrities appear free to move as they please. The double standards are a disgrace.”
Mrs Palmer, 45, said she wants a “new deal for Queensland.”
The Palmers married in 2007 and have two daughters, Mary and Lucy.
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