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What Clive Palmer must now ask himself: would China's 'bastards' buy a mine from him?

  • Written by Kenneth Yin, Lecturer in law, Edith Cowan University
What Clive Palmer must now ask himself: would China's 'bastards' buy a mine from him?Kelly Barnes/AAP

Colourful mining magnate Clive Palmer’s political ambitions appear to be in tatters. But what of his multibillion-dollar legal ambitions?

On Sunday he announced his United Australia Party will not contest Western Australia’s state election in March – a logical decision given his party attracted just 0.6% of the vote...

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