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'Big-spending Queensland billionaire Clive Palmer bought a football team, helped create a political party, added robot dinosaurs to a luxury golf resort and is set to recreate the ‘Titanic’. But are these just fanciful splurges or something more calculated? The reality is that Palmer uses his immense mining wealth (which some estimates put at over $6 billion) in a proactive (if sometimes eccentric) global way. His personal story is just as colourful and intriguing: Clive spent time as a child in China and writes poetry. He is well-known for attention-grabbing statements that send the media into a spin. Shortly after Clive was named a National Living Treasure, he claimed that the CIA was secretly backing green groups in a bid to kill the Australian coal-mining industry. In true Clive fashion, in May 2012 he announced that he was building a luxury cruise liner - the ‘Titanic II’ - and his political feuds are legendary. Part business book, part political insider profile and all rollicking tale, journalist Sean Parnell reveals the man behind the billions. ' (Publisher's blurb)
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Dedication:
For Jude, Luca and Rachael – you lead my morning headlines, dominate my live blog, overwhelm my evening update and bring colour and movement to my long reads. I love you.
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Epigraph:
Have the strength to know what you are; and what you
want and work towards it with love in your heart, but
don't sell your soul for it because you just might find that
you can't buy it back.
–F. Clive Palmer, little-known Australian poet, 1981
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Digging into the Resource Curse
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Inside Story , March 2014;
— Review of Gina Rinehart : The Untold Story of the Richest Woman in the World 2012 single work biography ; Twiggy : The High-Stakes Life of Andrew Forest 2013 single work biography ; Clive : The Story of Clive Palmer 2013 single work biography ; Boganaire : The Rise and Fall of Nathan Tinkler 2013 single work biography -
Hot Reads
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 December 2013; (p. 18-19)
— Review of The Very Brave Bear 2013 single work picture book ; Seadog 2013 single work picture book ; Ice, Wind, Rock : Douglas Mawson in the Antarctic 2013 single work biography picture book ; The Four Seasons of Lucy McKenzie 2013 single work children's fiction ; The Rules of Summer 2013 single work picture book ; The Dying Beach 2013 single work novel ; The Ballad of Dixie Lee 2013 single work picture book ; Life in Outer Space 2013 single work novel ; Refuge 2013 single work children's fiction ; The Midnight Dress 2013 single work novel ; Watching You 2013 single work novel ; The Best Australian Science Writing 2013 2013 anthology short story essay poetry autobiography ; Bitter Wash Road 2013 single work novel ; The Dunbar Case 2013 single work novel ; The Narrow Road to the Deep North 2013 single work novel ; The Night Guest 2013 single work novel ; Questions of Travel 2012 single work novel ; The Rosie Project 2013 single work novel ; The Childhood of Jesus 2013 single work novel ; Divine Comedy : A New Verse Translation Clive James (translator), 2013 single work poetry ; The Best Australian Poems 2013 2013 selected work poetry ; At the Close of Play 2013 single work autobiography ; Ned Kelly : The Story of Australia's Most Notorious Legend 2013 single work biography ; Forgotten War 2013 single work non-fiction ; Kerry Stokes : Self-Made Man 2013 single work biography ; The 39-Storey Treehouse 2013 single work children's fiction ; Twiggy : The High-Stakes Life of Andrew Forest 2013 single work biography ; WeirDo 2013 single work children's fiction ; Boomer & Me : A Memoir of Motherhood and Asperger's 2013 single work autobiography ; The Best 100 Poems of Dorothy Porter 2013 selected work poetry ; Clive : The Story of Clive Palmer 2013 single work biography ; Australian Poetry Journal vol. 3 no. 1 2013 periodical issue ; Shame and the Captives 2013 single work novel ; Coal Creek 2013 single work novel ; Barracuda 2013 single work novel -
Who is the Real Clive Palmer?
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 356 2013;
— Review of Clive : The Story of Clive Palmer 2013 single work biography -
Portrait of an Elusive Magnate
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 October 2013; (p. 33) The Age , 12 October 2013; (p. 31) The Canberra Times , 12 October 2013; (p. 26)
— Review of Clive : The Story of Clive Palmer 2013 single work biography -
Larger than Life, Determined to Succeed
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 September 2013; (p. 18-19)
— Review of Clive : The Story of Clive Palmer 2013 single work biography
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Larger than Life, Determined to Succeed
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 September 2013; (p. 18-19)
— Review of Clive : The Story of Clive Palmer 2013 single work biography -
Portrait of an Elusive Magnate
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 October 2013; (p. 33) The Age , 12 October 2013; (p. 31) The Canberra Times , 12 October 2013; (p. 26)
— Review of Clive : The Story of Clive Palmer 2013 single work biography -
Who is the Real Clive Palmer?
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 356 2013;
— Review of Clive : The Story of Clive Palmer 2013 single work biography -
Hot Reads
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 December 2013; (p. 18-19)
— Review of The Very Brave Bear 2013 single work picture book ; Seadog 2013 single work picture book ; Ice, Wind, Rock : Douglas Mawson in the Antarctic 2013 single work biography picture book ; The Four Seasons of Lucy McKenzie 2013 single work children's fiction ; The Rules of Summer 2013 single work picture book ; The Dying Beach 2013 single work novel ; The Ballad of Dixie Lee 2013 single work picture book ; Life in Outer Space 2013 single work novel ; Refuge 2013 single work children's fiction ; The Midnight Dress 2013 single work novel ; Watching You 2013 single work novel ; The Best Australian Science Writing 2013 2013 anthology short story essay poetry autobiography ; Bitter Wash Road 2013 single work novel ; The Dunbar Case 2013 single work novel ; The Narrow Road to the Deep North 2013 single work novel ; The Night Guest 2013 single work novel ; Questions of Travel 2012 single work novel ; The Rosie Project 2013 single work novel ; The Childhood of Jesus 2013 single work novel ; Divine Comedy : A New Verse Translation Clive James (translator), 2013 single work poetry ; The Best Australian Poems 2013 2013 selected work poetry ; At the Close of Play 2013 single work autobiography ; Ned Kelly : The Story of Australia's Most Notorious Legend 2013 single work biography ; Forgotten War 2013 single work non-fiction ; Kerry Stokes : Self-Made Man 2013 single work biography ; The 39-Storey Treehouse 2013 single work children's fiction ; Twiggy : The High-Stakes Life of Andrew Forest 2013 single work biography ; WeirDo 2013 single work children's fiction ; Boomer & Me : A Memoir of Motherhood and Asperger's 2013 single work autobiography ; The Best 100 Poems of Dorothy Porter 2013 selected work poetry ; Clive : The Story of Clive Palmer 2013 single work biography ; Australian Poetry Journal vol. 3 no. 1 2013 periodical issue ; Shame and the Captives 2013 single work novel ; Coal Creek 2013 single work novel ; Barracuda 2013 single work novel -
Digging into the Resource Curse
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Inside Story , March 2014;
— Review of Gina Rinehart : The Untold Story of the Richest Woman in the World 2012 single work biography ; Twiggy : The High-Stakes Life of Andrew Forest 2013 single work biography ; Clive : The Story of Clive Palmer 2013 single work biography ; Boganaire : The Rise and Fall of Nathan Tinkler 2013 single work biography