Hung out with Clive Palmer (10)

I hung out with Clive Palmer last night. It was really good to have my political representative open up his resort to his constituents, mingle freely with them, put on a great show by
'Dean Vegas' (elvis inpersonator), wander through his motor car collections, wander through his animated dinosaur park.....

Of all the politicians I've met, he certainly seems the most human.

Great to see him with his wife and his family.

Good on ya Clive for being accessible by ordinary people and for being for the people....

Just saying....

i emailed Clive Palmer the other day, haven't received any acknowledgement so far

It's still me and Mrs Palmer

For the overseas peeps

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Clive Frederick Palmer (born 26 March 1954) is an Australian businessman, politician, political activist, and owner of Mineralogy. He has iron ore, nickel and coal holdings. As of January 2014, his net worth was estimated by Forbes magazine to be US$550 million.

Palmer owns Mineralogy, Waratah Coal, Palmer Industries, Queensland Nickel at Townsville, Palmer Coolum Resort on the Sunshine Coast, Palmer Sea Reef Golf Course at Port Douglas, Palmer Colonial Golf Course at Robina, and the Palmer Gold Coast Golf Course, also at Robina. He owned Gold Coast United FC from 2008 to 2012.

In April 2012, he announced that he had signed a memorandum of understanding with CSC Jinling Shipyard to construct a replica of RMS Titanic, the Titanic II. The ship will be built in China and will set sail in late 2016. Palmer also added over 100 animatronic dinosaurs to his resort in Coolum, creating a simulated Jurassic Park.

In 2013, he formed the Palmer United Party to contest the federal election, in which he won a seat in the Division of Fairfax in Queensland

You are very lucky he didn't fall asleep on you.

yeah good
Clive Palmer used more than $2.1 million in funds allegedly siphoned from a Chinese state-owned company to pay his Brisbane advertising agency during last year's federal election campaign, according to court documents.

Yeah, I like him as well. He is smaller in real life than he looks on TV.

Of course he is a business man at heart, so it was interesting sitting next to him in the VIP area for the show and being able to first hand watch him begin a business deal with some Indian (from India) VIPs he was hosting a holiday for.

That is what I call 'accessible' in that he was open in front of me and didn't put on any pretences. He is a 'what you see is what you get' sort of fellow.

Shrewd, yes he is. He wouldn't be a successful business man if he wasn't.

Whether people want to believe the hype in the media or not is up to them. But from a first-hand perspective, I'm quite happy to have him, rather than a Liberal or Labour non-contactable representative in politics representing me.

Also his office was very helpful for me with the dreaded immigration department. When I couldn't get a straight answer from them, I called up Clive's office, and bingo..... I had my issues straightened out within two days......

Never had that happen with any other politician I've known.

Just sayin'...........