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big plans andlaughing now

Clive Palmer’s new party has emerged as a political force that can’t be ignored

‘‘Clive doesn’tsitwellwithcomplacency,and likes to effwith theworld’smind;it is all a bit ofa game’’

ordinary influence. Kattersays it is obvious Palmerwould have played a role inelevating Premier CampbellNewman to party leader topave the way for last year’shistoric LNP win in Queens-land. But when the LNP an-nounced it would not beawarding a railway contractin the Galilee Basin to Palmerthe fuse was lit, ending in anexplosive series of exchangesbetween Palmer and hisold colleagues.

They included accusationsby Palmer the LNP had‘‘cooked the books’’ to makethe state’s financial situationlook more dire in order to jus-tify sacking public servants.

As LNP boss Bruce McIver,who remains friends withPalmer, says in Parnell’sbook: ‘‘He’s a big baby at theend of the day, but he’s a babywith teeth.’’

The rift with the LNP ap-pears to have only spurredPalmer on to greater heightsin the past year.

The creation of the PUP,which looks certain of secur-ing a Senate seat and may stillinstall Palmer himself in thelower house as the member forFairfax, is just one of series ofgrandiose schemes and ex-travagant flights of fancy.

Palmer has frightened offPGA golfers with life-sizeddinosaurs at his Coolum re-sort, accused the Greens of in-volvement in a CIA plot, suedLNP candidate Mal Brough inthe neighbouring electorate ofFisher for $800,000 and be-

friended the famous Americanpolitical clan the Kennedys.

And he is re-building the Ti-tanic. The deal is with theChinese shipyard CSC Jinlingand the launch date just threeyears off in a project in keep-ing with Palmer’s dreams ofre-animating disaster-pronetransport projects.

In 2010 he started a com-pany examining the com-mercial possibilities of zep-pelin airships similar to thethe Hindenburg, which cra-shed in an inferno in 1937 atthe Lakehurst Naval Air Stat-ion, killing 26 people.

Yet Palmer’s strange vi-sions are not pipe dreams.

As he gleefully pointed outSaturday night, many scoffedat his attempt to create a thirdforce in Australian politicswith the PUP. But the partyscored around six per cent ofthe primary vote across thenation, taking it from the ob-scure project of a billionaire toa player in Australian politics.

While Queenslander GlennLazarus looks certain to enterthe Senate, he could be joinedby Tasmanian Jacqui Lambie,who is still fighting it out withLiberal Sally Chandler.

Political analyst RichardHerr says Palmer will throwmoney at the Tasmanian statecampaign next year, splittingthe conservative vote at the st-ate poll as people look formore choice in politics.

‘‘There’s a good chance thatif the Palmer United Partydoes have a presence in Tas-mania, if it gets funding andsupport for promoting itself,it might well attract anyonewho might normally havevoted for the Liberals, butfeels that they’d want a widerchoice,’’ he said.

For Bob Katter, whose KAPwas created before the PUP,it’s clear Palmer has beat himto the punch on the thirdforce question, but they couldyet join forces.

‘‘I have no doubt we willwork well together if Clivegoes to Canberra,’’ he says.

Katter, still hoping to re-tain his seat of Kennedy asthe counting continues, saysthe LNP spent millions of dol-lars attacking the KAP duringthe election campaign whilethe PUP had many more ofPalmer’s millions to both de-fend and promote itself.

‘‘Clive did that very suc-cessfully and good on him,’’Katter says.

‘‘But while the major par-ties tried to get rid of me, theyended up with both of us.’’