Portrait of Clive, tyrannical bully
CLIVE Palmer’s former bodyguard has revealed what he insists is the disturbing truth about the conduct of the maverick leader.
Investigations
Staff patently angry at inventor
KIA Silverbrook claims to be the world’s most prolific “inventor” but parts of the Sydneysider’s empire are verging of collapse.
Stop bullying and fix dams, Palmer told
QUEENSLAND Premier Campbell Newman yesterday challenged his party’s former top patron and now arch-enemy, Clive Palmer, to stop “bullying”.
Palmer’s toxic dam at risk of overflow
A VAST dam storing contaminated water produced by Clive Palmer’s Townsville nickel refinery is operating outside spill limits.
Palmer firm fails ‘environmental duty’
CLIVE Palmer and his coal exploration company in Queensland’s Galilee Basin finally fell foul of environmental regulators yesterday.
Palmer to protect his dinosaurs
CLIVE Palmer has pulled his tourism resort and dinosaur park from the ownership structure of his failing Queensland nickel refinery.
Gas minnows get hands on a lot of land
SMALL CSG firms with little equity hold exploration rights over more than 10,000sq km of prime NSW farmland.
IAG’s costly British sojourn
IT was a move that crippled one of the nation’s biggest companies for years, leading to more than $1.3 billion in writedowns.
Myer attack leader refused truce
A Human Rights Commission member rejected a strategy to placate the angry retailer.
Rogue campaigns, left-leaning advisers
THE head of the AHRC has publicly rebuked one of her most experienced commissioners for launching a social media attack on retailer Myer.
Why we need to worry about real Clive
CLIVE Frederick Palmer is not a professor, not an adviser to the G20, not a mining magnate, not a legal guru and not an advocate for free speech.
Police expose cracks in AWU scandal
HOW did Bruce Wilson allegedly engineer a major fraud in the 1990s by siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars into a union fund?
Gillard files seized in ‘slush fund’ probe
VICTORIA Police Fraud Squad has seized Julia Gillard’s documents relating to legal advice she gave to help set up a union fund for her then boyfriend.
MP director of firm that went bust
QUEENSLAND federal MP Bert van Manen is the founder and half-owner of a financial planning firm that collapsed last year.
Palmer group in strife over drilling
CLIVE Palmer’s company Waratah Coal has been flouting environmental regulations and risks prosecution.
Gillard overruled on car-use documents
THE Information Commissioner has thwarted a bid by Julia Gillard to prevent the release of four confidential documents about whether she breached rules on taxpayer-funded parliamentary entitlements with the use of a car.
PM’s role in batts debacle revisited
KEVIN Rudd’s direct knowledge of serious risks to public safety in the deadly $2bn home-insulation debacle will be examined in a new legal action.
No trace of 457 evidence found
THEY have searched high and low. There have been exhaustive checks of Julia Gillard’s office and questioning of staff.
Refined votes made Palmer a treasure
IT is one of Clive Palmer’s most revered gongs, the tycoon’s National Living Treasure award
Police quiz ex-AWU assistant
A RETIRED union employee is now helping Victoria Police in their probe into a union fund scandal still dogging Julia Gillard.
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