Clive Frederick Palmer

Clive Frederick Palmer
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b. 1954

Born26 March 1954 in Footscray, Victoria, Australia72 years old

Living Chairman of Queensland Nickel Pty Ltd. In 2009 he bought Queensland Nickel and the Palmer Nickel and Cobalt Refinery, which BHP had been going to close. The company entered voluntary administration on 18 January 2016.

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1950s
Born 26 March 1954

Footscray, Victoria, Australia
1980s
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Occupation (Executive Chairman, Mineralogy Pty Ltd) 1985–2014

Executive Chairman of Mineralogy Pty Ltd, a mining company he founded in the mid-1980s. In 1985 and 1986 Palmer founded three companies which undertook mining exploration in Western Australia, among them Mineralogy, which by 2006 held iron ore reserves in the Pilbara Ranges of remote northern Western Australia.

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1990s
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Candidate, 1997 Australian Constitutional Convention election 1997

Queensland, Australia

Stood unsuccessfully as a republican candidate at the 1997 Australian Constitutional Convention election, heading the eleven-member "Elect the President" ticket. The group polled 1.7 per cent of first-preference votes in Queensland.

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2000s
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Occupation (Owner, Waratah Coal Pty Ltd) 2008–2014

Owner of the coal company Waratah Coal Pty Ltd from 2008 to 2014, and its Chair from 2008 to 2010. Palmer bought Waratah Coal in 2008.

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Occupation (Chairman, Queensland Nickel Pty Ltd) 2009–2014

Chairman of Queensland Nickel Pty Ltd. In 2009 he bought Queensland Nickel and the Palmer Nickel and Cobalt Refinery, which BHP had been going to close. The company entered voluntary administration on 18 January 2016.

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2010s
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Founder and Leader, Palmer United Party from April 2013 to April 2017

Founded the Palmer United Party, announcing on 25 April 2013 a "reformation" of the United Australia Party to stand candidates at the 2013 federal election, and led it. The party contested all 150 House of Representatives seats in 2013 and reached a peak of three senators. Palmer deregistered the party's state branches in September 2016 and announced in April 2017 that the party would be wound up.

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Member for Fairfax, House of Representatives from 7 September 2013 to 9 May 2016

Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

Elected to the House of Representatives for the Queensland division of Fairfax at the 2013 federal election, sitting for the Palmer United Party. Fairfax covers the coastal and inland region north of Brisbane, including Buderim, Maroochydore and Nambour. He served on the House Standing Committees on Economics and on Infrastructure and Communications and the Joint Select Committee on Trade and Investment Growth, and retired prior to the 2016 general election.

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Leader, United Australia Party 2018–2025

In February 2018 Palmer announced his intention to resurrect his party and return to federal politics; it was re-registered in June that year under its original name, the United Australia Party. The party contested the 2019 and 2022 federal elections, winning one Senate seat in 2022, and was voluntarily deregistered in 2022. In February 2025, after a High Court ruling that he could not register the United Australia Party again, Palmer announced that he had joined Trumpet of Patriots.

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