‘Optional voting for part-time Clive Palmer’
“Clive Palmer is failing to live up to his personal vow to be a full-time politician, instead turning in the worst voting record of any federal parliamentarian in the current term. Since winning his seat the mining magnate has voted on only one piece of legislation — backing the Coalition in its bid in the lower house to scrap Labor’s under-performing minerals resource rent tax. The repeal effort was defeated in the Senate”