“Australian mining tycoon Clive Palmer is unvaccinated, flush with cash, and giddily irritating huge swaths of the Aussie electorate,” writes Noah_Kirsch.
blanketed the country with over $50 million in ads—more than both major parties combined.
“Think about in the United States one of the Koch brothers running for president or something and outspending the Democrats and the Republicans,” said Peter Chen, who teaches Australian politics at the University of Sydney. “It's that sort of crazy money.” In some ways that cash was not well-spent. Palmer’s party, the United Australia Party, failed to win a single seat in 2019, but political analysts say he may have helped tip the election away from Labor, which had been expected to win.The spending marked “a huge shift in our democracy,” lamented Member of Parliament Patrick Gorman, a Labor Party representative, in an interview with The Daily Beast this week.
There are mixed opinions about what Palmer is seeking to accomplish through his spending and public antics. Some analysts believe he is merely playing games, reveling in the attention and dysfunction.
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