This Month
Get ready for the biggest Clive Palmer advertising campaign ever
The mining magnate has revived his United Australia Party for a tilt in the Queensland electorate of Fadden at the 2028 federal election.
February
Clive Palmer weighs in as Liberals increase pressure on Nationals
Billionaire Clive Palmer is not ruling out helping the Nationals financially should they separate permanently from the Coalition.
How Australia’s mining barons tried to sway the federal election
Every donation made to anti-teal group Australians for Prosperity was from Coal Australia Limited, which was formed by miners Whitehaven, New Hope and Bowen.
The Australians named in Epstein’s diaries and emails
The latest release follows years of mounting pressure on the US Justice Department to make the files available to the public.
December 2025
Melbourne pips Sydney on 2025’s list of most expensive homes
The tally of Australia’s top 10 prestige home sales this year has come in at a record of almost $700 million.
October 2025
Woollahra high-flyers buy Paddington’s most expensive home
Daniel and Lyndell Droga have emerged as the record-setting buyers of a landmark pub-to-luxury-house conversion.
June 2025
‘Existential crisis’: 5 charts reveal how Labor decimated Greens, Libs
The final election data reveals the rise of a “left coalition” in Australia – and the surprising voters who cost Peter Dutton and Adam Bandt their seats.
Farming couple, lotteries boss smash Qld apartment records
The buyers of Queensland’s most expensive luxury apartments on the Gold Coast have been revealed as a Wagga Wagga-based couple and a lotteries entrepreneur.
May 2025
Four Nation: Pauline Hanson pulls off Senate stunner
The One Nation leader is planning to run again for the Senate as 73-year-old as her party grows its parliamentary numbers.
Australia’s top 10 richest people revealed
Gina Rinehart has topped the Financial Review Rich List for the sixth consecutive year, despite her fortune falling by $2 billion.
The political attack ads that changed voters’ minds about Dutton
Labor ran a “masterpiece of propaganda” built around nuclear energy and a four-word slogan attacking Peter Dutton, says election advertising veteran Toby Ralph.
L1 proposes Platinum merger; Tesla seeks Musk successor; Bonkers rally
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
April 2025
This is the last election without caps on donations. It shows
The 2025 election will likely be the last when Australia’s wealthiest political donors can splash cash on allies without limit.
Who is the woman fronting Clive Palmer’s viral campaign blitz?
Clive Palmer has poured millions into making Trumpet of Patriots leader Suellen Wrightson a household face. But little is known about her.
How do I make those Trumpet of Patriots spam texts stop?
Everybody’s doing it, and everyone hates them. So why are political parties allowed to send you so many texts?
Comedy, conflict and Clive: how TV networks will cover election night
The Betoota Advocate editors will be on Ten; Seven will roll out Bill Shorten and Clive Palmer. We look at the various election night line-ups.
Inside Clive Palmer’s advertising strategy (if you can call it that)
Meet the team spending the enigmatic mining billionaire’s millions on ads that won’t win seats.
March 2025
Inside Clive Palmer’s one-man war on ASIC
Clive Palmer and Donald Trump both believe they’ve been the targets of unfair lawsuits by regulators, and both aim to get even.
Palmer’s $400b in lawsuits is just one of the risks that were hidden
The statement of dangers details tens of billions of dollars in exposure taxpayers may have to pay, including to Clive Palmer if he wins his cases.
Clive the lone budget speech fanboy
It’s a curious hobby, but then again the billionaire political pest’s other interests are dinosaurs and litigation.
