16 better things Clive Palmer could spend $256 million on

Mining billionaire and political troublemaker Clive Palmer has restated his admirable dedication to losing everybody’s time. By means of gobfuls of Tim Tams, he instructed the Nationwide Press Membership earlier this month that he deliberate to spend no less than one other $50 million on the approaching election.

If he sticks to that, it should put his funding into politics at simply greater than $250 million over the previous six years. One would assume spending $206 million thus far and getting nothing in return besides Senator Ralph Babet could be motive sufficient for anybody to start out questioning their fiscal selections, however right here we’re.

Regardless, Crikey is right here to assist. Now that the election has been known as, right here are some things that Palmer could be higher off spending his cash on*.

*Permitting for inflation and alternate charges

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