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Buffoonery

24 January 2015

9:00 AM

24 January 2015

9:00 AM

Quarterly Essay: Clivosaurus: The Politics of Clive Palmer Guy Rundle

Black Inc, pp.$19.95, 116, ISBN: 9781863957014

Not so much striding across the political landscape as huffing and puffing his way through the back rooms, Clive Palmer is an oddity even by the standards of Australian public life, which has thrown up its share of strange characters. Yet somehow, by the vagaries of numbers, he has reached a position of influence, and for that reason it is time for a considered examination of him.

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