Mineral wealth, Clive Palmer, and the corruption of Australian politics

Clive Palmer is reportedly spending A$70 million of his own money on his party’s campaign.

• Warwick Smith
• The Conversation

How is it possible for one individual to command so much wealth and where did it come from?

The sad and strange reality is that Australian governments gave him most of it by letting him dig up and sell natural resources that, by rights, belong to us not him.

We’ve a history of handing vast wealth to resource and mining magnates and companies and then watching them use that wealth to undermine our democracy in…

Palmer is small fry…

• Mineral wealth, Clive…