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| UpdatedClive Palmer tells the Federal Court in Brisbane it is unfair to blame him for the collapse of Queensland Nickel, as he defends speaking to his nephew Clive Mensink despite the company's director being the subject of a court summons.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, company-news, clive-palmer, brisbane-4000, qld, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedClive Palmer tells a Brisbane court he cannot remember details of multi-million-dollar payments made by his mining empire while he was chairman.
Topics: clive-palmer, courts-and-trials, mining-industry, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedBusinessman and former federal MP Clive Palmer is to appear in the Federal Court in Brisbane as liquidators of his failed Queensland Nickel company look to question him over its demise.
Topics: courts-and-trials, company-news, clive-palmer, federal-government, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, townsville-4810
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Clive Palmer says Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's criticism last week of his proposed coal mine amounts to defamation, and he will sue her if she does not withdraw the comments.
Topics: clive-palmer, person, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedClive Palmer is looking to build a new open-cut coal mine on his central Queensland cattle station, despite his collapsed Queensland Nickel refinery still owing more than $300 million.
Topics: clive-palmer, person, mining-industry, business-economics-and-finance, rockhampton-4700, qld
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| UpdatedThe Gold Coast council rejects a claim by former MP Clive Palmer on social media that officers "armed with high-powered rifles" entered his property and "fired shots killing my livestock and endangering human life".
Topics: local-government, clive-palmer, southport-4215, qld, australia
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| UpdatedA court orders Queensland Nickel to hand over a stash of documents to liquidators investigating the collapse of the former Clive Palmer operation, but a lawyer argues the company's former chief financial officer Daren Wolfe is the only person who can access the files.
Topics: mining-industry, company-news, federal-government, clive-palmer, brisbane-4000, qld, townsville-4810
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We might assume that in Australia, an idiosyncratic billionaire couldn't win office through bluster, chutzpah and well-targeted populism that struck a chord with discontented voters. And yet we've already had our very own Donald Trump.
Topics: us-elections, federal-parliament, clive-palmer, pauline-hanson, abbott-tony, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedThe Palmer United Party applies to have its registration cancelled in Queensland, three years after forming.
Topics: clive-palmer, person, state-parliament, government-and-politics, elections, qld, australia
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| UpdatedIn the wake of the collapse of Clive Palmer's Queensland Nickel refinery, the billionaire businessman puts Mineralogy House up for sale.
Topics: building-and-construction, industry, business-economics-and-finance, mining-industry, clive-palmer, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedFormer federal MP Clive Palmer arrives at court in a bid to halt an examination over the collapse of the Queensland Nickel refinery.
Topics: courts-and-trials, federal---state-issues, clive-palmer, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedClive Palmer fails in his latest attempt to stop proceedings in his Federal Court examination over the collapse of the Queensland Nickel refinery.
Topics: courts-and-trials, company-news, clive-palmer, federal---state-issues, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810
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The High Court will hear businessman Clive Palmer's application for an injunction against examination by Queensland Nickel liquidators in November.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, clive-palmer, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedThe former Queensland Nickel owner applies to the High Court to prevent further examination of him by liquidators over the collapse of the refinery.
Topics: clive-palmer, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedClive Palmer yells at and pushes members of the media as he arrives at the Federal Court for a second day of questioning over the collapse of his company Queensland Nickel, and accuses a photographer of assaulting his wife Anna.
Topics: clive-palmer, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810, yabulu-4818
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| UpdatedClive Palmer's security detail clashes with reporters as the former federal MP leaves court after giving evidence at a hearing into the collapse of his Queensland Nickel refinery.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, clive-palmer, company-news, mining-industry, federal-government, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, yabulu-4818, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedA former Queensland Nickel director denies $500,000 that he borrowed was a loan from the company, the Federal Court in Brisbane hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, company-news, mining-industry, industry, clive-palmer, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, yabulu-4818, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedA former managing director of Queensland Nickel invoiced the company for other work he carried out for his friend Clive Palmer, the Federal Court is told.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, company-news, courts-and-trials, environment, government-and-politics, clive-palmer, environmental-health, townsville-4810, qld, brisbane-4000
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Queensland Nickel's financial position was so bad in the months before it collapsed that the company approached all four big banks for finance, the Federal Court is told.
Topics: courts-and-trials, company-news, mining-industry, clive-palmer, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedClive Palmer's nickel refinery is accused of "gross negligence" over the overflow of its tailings dam during a trial in north Queensland.
Topics: environment, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, mining-industry, company-news, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, clive-palmer, yabulu-4818, townsville-4810, qld
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| UpdatedClive Palmer will be forced to give evidence under oath about the collapse of his Queensland Nickel business after failing in his fight against a Federal Court summons.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, clive-palmer, company-news, mining-industry, brisbane-4000, yabulu-4818, townsville-4810, qld
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| UpdatedClive Palmer has been rapped over the knuckles by a Federal Court judge for providing a "salacious" affidavit containing "irrelevant" assertions in his bid to avoid questioning next week over the collapse of Queensland Nickel.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, clive-palmer, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810, qld
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Clive Palmer is issued with a Federal Court summons to face questions next month over the collapse of his company behind the Yabulu Nickel refinery, near Townsville in north Queensland.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, clive-palmer, mining-industry, yabulu-4818
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| UpdatedElevated levels of ammonia are found in waterways near Clive Palmer's north Queensland nickel refinery for the second time this year.
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, environmental-impact, regional-development, state-parliament, clive-palmer, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government issues Clive Palmer a July 20 deadline to confirm his intentions for his stricken nickel refinery in north Queensland.
Topics: clive-palmer, government-and-politics, townsville-4810