Australian mining billionaire Clive Palmer has said he would “restructure” the nation if his United Australia Party were to win power at the federal election later this year.
Announcing the UAP’s second federal candidate, Mr Palmer said a recent ninemsn poll of 65,000 people found a third of respondents would give his party their vote.
Mr Palmer said it was obvious people were sick of the “boring duopoly” of the Labor prime minister and the conservative Liberal-National opposition leader.
He recently announced the reformation of the UAP, under his leadership, and is now talking of changing laws en-masse if the UAP is elected to govern.
“We can guarantee you that this country will be restructured,” he told AAP Newsagency in the Queensland capital, Brisbane.
“The current legislation will be swept away in a tide and there’ll be better legislation to create enterprise and vision.
“The whole system is corrupt.
“The whole system of how we operate and distribute wealth in this country, the incentives we give our children is wrong, and there’s going to be changes.”
He said more UAP policies would be announced in time.
The mining magnate said former independent MP for the Queensland seat of Burnett, Rob Messenger, would be the UAP’s candidate for the central Queensland seat of Hinkler at the federal election in September.
Mr Palmer himself will stand in the Sunshine Coast seat of Fairfax at the election.
Mr Messenger resigned from the Liberal National Party in 2010 before he lost his seat as an independent in 2012.
Another federal candidate would be announced later today for the Sunshine Coast seat of Fisher and five more would be announced on Monday, Mr Palmer said.
He has no concerns about the UAP registering its name in time for the election but complained Australia’s electoral laws were restrictive.
AAP reports that during a broad-ranging statement Mr Palmer criticised Ms Gillard’s record on education, media bias, the indigenous infant mortality rate, the treatment of refugees, raising taxes, and an overall “lack of vision” of the country’s leaders.
He also said Liberal-National coalition leader Tony Abbott and Ms Gillard’s lack of criticism of his policies showed they believed their own policies were wrong.
“They’re scared stiff,” Mr Palmer said.
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Good On You Clive,
Chanel Moron support? While killing the world with CO2 poisoning etc. for a quick greedy buck. How stupid do you think people are? Perhaps the elephant wishes to join as assistant. There must be a heavy environment tax on coal + 90% to cover the damage.
Norway taxes it’s mined wealth at 75%. We give ours away almost free as well as destroying our environment and real economy at the same time. The government is controlled by our 87% + foreign mining companies who are stealing the Australian peoples wealth. High time we had real democracy instead of a dictatorship ruled by foreigners, fueled by bribery in the form of political donations and jobs for the boys, let alone radio and channel moron. If Clive has any credibility at all, he should stop mining immediately and not kill a few million less people through CO2 pollution let alone all the other damage.
Michael Perroux you are right about Resource Harvesters not paying much tax , they can’t charge the others much when the biggest earner from our Resources Pays no Tax to Australian Government as she is our Queen and she sacked Whitlam Government as they were going to Nationalize our Resources . The Liberal Party & The National Party will miss his donations -as he donated more to them than he paid tax to the Government . Wonder if he can afford to buy enough votes to become Prime Minister with money from our Resources