#clive palmer

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Vandalised billboard in Sydney of the United Australia Party, a minor right-wing party controlled by mining billionaire Clive Palmer.

Palmer pumps tens of millions of dollars into advertising his party, paying for billboards all over the country. The party stands little chance of actually getting any candidates elected, but that isn't really the point anyway. The true purpose of the party is to funnel voting preferences to the ruling conservative Liberal Party.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

[jt1674]

[l-silvermoon]

After months of being inundated with ads full of scaremongering and political misinformation on YouTube, the radio and billboards etc, you love to hear it!!!

[polka-spots]

If I get one more uap ad I am going to throw my fucking laptop at the wall.

I have a visceral hatred for Clive Palmer (I'm Western Australian, enough said) and every time his dumb fucking face and dumb fucking voice appear in my ads I burn with the rage of Achilles and have to wrestle down the desire to start manically chewing on my desk until I can skip the ad. Do you know how many uap ads I've blocked? And they just. Keep. Coming.

[axvoter]

Blatantly Partisan Party Review II (NSW 2023): Group B (Craig Kelly / United Australia Party)

Prior reviews (many as the Palmer United Party): federal 2013, VIC 2014, federal 2016, VIC 2018 (one Palmer United independent), federal 2019, federal 2022, VIC 2022

What I said before: “If you want unhinged covid conspiracies, cooker grudges, untrammelled resentment, economic incoherence, and environmental ruin, then this is the party for you. If you want something even within shouting distance of sense, look elsewhere.” (VIC 2022 review)

What I think this year: Nothing has changed in the past four months.

For some reason, Craig Kelly’s personal website still describes him as the federal member for the Division of Hughes. He was turfed out almost a year ago. This ex-Liberal MP is now national director of the United Australia Party, which is too shambolically disorganised to obtain state registration in NSW, and Kelly is one of the leading agitators of the evidence-free lunatics who think covid, and everything else, is a conspiracy against them personally. They suppose themselves to be the main characters of the universe without realising that the universe really would rather they shut the fuck up and stop ranting at poor unfortunate relatives at family get-togethers.

I want to take this opportunity to clarify something with regards to this year’s upper house ballot. There are 21 groups contesting: 13 parties and a remarkable 8 groups of independents. All the more remarkable is that six of those eight—yes, three quarters of them—did not nominate enough individual candidates, fifteen, to receive a square above the line. As Ben Raue has highlighted, this is very unusual: at the previous five elections under the current system combined, only three groups have not qualified for a square above the line!

The first of these six groups (in ballot order) to fall short of the candidate threshold and not receive a square above the line is Craig Kelly’s UAP-aligned group in Column B. Now, Kelly is an idiot, but he’s also an experienced politician. He of all people should know that any group without a square above the line has no chance of winning a seat and is wasting its time and money. But, look, if he wants to waste time and money, who am I to stop him?

Recommendation: Give Group B (Craig Kelly / United Australia Party) a weak or no preference.

Website: https://www.unitedaustraliaparty.org.au/

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Spirit of Clive: A Tribute to the Music of Clive Palmer & COB

A sprawling 29-track homage to the late/great Incredible String Band / C.O.B. founder Clive Palmer? Yes, please — especially when the lineup is as stacked as this. Palmer passed away back in 2014, but his twinkling soul is brought back to life throughout Spirit of Clive's nearly two-hour running time.

There's a communal/familial vibe to many of these renditions, which feels appropriate; Palmer's music was always uniquely ego-less and easygoing, encouraging singalongs and togetherness. I love the gentle round-robin version of "Summer's Night" performed by James Elkington, Joan Shelley and Nathan Salsburg and the sweet harmonies of Eve Searls and Jerry David DeCicca's "Spirit of Love." Also great is the way that Hiss Golden Messenger turns "Lion of Judah" into something that could be on Pour Down Like Silver or how Elkhorn expertly locate the weird dreaminess of "Pretty Kerry." Too many favorites to name here!

Even better: "All money raised from this tribute album is going to the restoration of recently discovered rare recordings of Clive from the 1960s onwards, and to the production of a documentary about Clive Palmer."

[watermonkeystuff]

Geez, I wonder why people are sick and tired of United Australia Party.

Geez, it’s totally just their obviously empty promises.

Geez, it’s totally just the party to appealing to the worst of society including anti-vaxxers and neo-nazis.

Geez, it’s totally just because normal people don’t want anything to do with United Australia Party.

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Vandalised billboard in Sydney of the United Australia Party, a minor right-wing party controlled by mining billionaire Clive Palmer.

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

CLIVE PALMER Titanic II

CLIVE PALMER Titanic II

            Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has been teasing us with building a replica of the Titanic (called the ‘Titanic II’) for years and years. But since then he’s been busy making political television advertisements and politics and more politic and I thought he forgot all about the Titanic II, well apparently not because he’s back! Yes!

            Today (13 March 2024) at the Sydney Opera House he announced that the design plans for the new Titanic have been finalised and should be built well hopefully soon before we all die.

            Palmer is a huge Titanic fan and announced in New York in 2013 his plan to build a replica of the RMS Titanic called Titanic II. He wants to recreate the Titanic as closely as possible to its previous appearance but this Titanic II will be safer and ‘far, far superior to the original Titanic’ - meaning it won’t sink and have people drowning etc.  

#TitanicII #clivepalmer #clivepalmertitanicII #rmstitanic #titanic

[dwaynethewogjohnson]

rip clive palmer you would of loved the doomed titan expedition

[angelgunfighter]

i just realized i never posted this wallpaper i did for @hmosexymanzine LOL

[silvericecold]

GO AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!

[axvoter]

Blatantly Partisan Party Review XVII (Victoria 2022): United Australia Party

Prior reviews (many as the Palmer United Party): federal 2013, VIC 2014, federal 2016, VIC 2018 (Bobby Singh, Palmer United independent), federal 2019, federal 2022

What I said before: “This party is now a grievance machine of very angry cranks who think something has been stolen from them; it’s rooted in the conspiracy theorist thought patterns that convince people who are generally pretty comfortable that they are in fact the great victims of the world.” (federal 2022)

What I think this time: Not content with stinking up the federal election and sending Ralph Babet to the Senate—a man contending for the “worst senator” mantle alongside the likes of Pauline Hanson, Malcolm Roberts, Matt Canavan, and Gerard Rennick—the UAP is now running for the Victorian state parliament with, among other candidates, Babet’s twin brother Matt (lead candidate in South-Eastern Metropolitan). UAP’s state leader is Geoff Shaw, the disgraced ex-Liberal member for Frankston, so you know this party can really pick ‘em.

As far as policy goes… what policy? The party’s website lists its Victorian candidates but no state policies. It still just displays the flaming bag of shit that the UAP offered to electors at the federal election. If you want unhinged covid conspiracies, cooker grudges, untrammelled resentment, economic incoherence, and environmental ruin, then this is the party for you. If you want something even within shouting distance of sense, look elsewhere.

To borrow my favourite example of unparliamentary language from New Zealand (a banger from 1949), the collective brains of the UAP could revolve inside a peanut shell for a thousand years without touching the sides.

My recommendation: Give the United Australia Party a weak or no preference. Remember to vote below the line on the large ballot for the Legislative Council so that your preference goes where you want it to go; all ballots with 5 or more preferences marked below the line are valid votes.

Website: https://www.unitedaustraliaparty.org.au/