Is it possible to buy your way into the federal parliament? It seems that we are about to find out via restored rich-lister Clive Palmer’s absolutely unprecedented multi-million dollar advertising barrage for a return to the parliament he so ignominiously exited just three years ago.
Exactly how much MPs and political parties spend in order to help get themselves elected is quite hard to pin down.
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