Ace political reporter Argus Tuft continues his fair and balanced coverage of the Big Banana State election where scary threats and mountains of green and black moolah are being used in a massive concerted campaign to bring down the Annastacia Palaszczuk Government .
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| ALP Death Tax in person. |
The threat of a 20 percent bogus Labor Death Tax is resurrected from the grave at every election in Queensland, state and federal . This time , however, it is a whopper campaign in which even Mrs Palmer , the deputy leader and a candidate , plays a major part .
Orchestrated social trolls have taken up the latest death tax reincarnation. This caused the ALP to send Clive and his social media backers a rude message from the other side.
The angry ALP says Palmer is lying to Queensland and has organised a petition in which it says Palmer , who recently bought an $80million luxury yacht , is using his billions to bankroll a massive campaign of death tax lies to elect Deb Frecklington and the LNP.
The Freckle denied this; said she had not even met him and had no desire to do so . However, the $300 registration rebate she is promising motorists by Christmas if elected to government will help defray the cost of wear and tear and salwater corrosion on Palmer's Rolls-Royce.
In addition , he has a vehicle collection numbering 150, said to be worth $20million and include a rare zombie van .
Challenged by the media to justify the claim that Queensland is going to bring insuch a mortifying tax , Palmer claimed a public servant had told him that the death tax had been discussed.
It started to sound like a Randy Rainbow choir singing liar, liar, your pants are on fire ! In a Sydney court , where Palmer was charged with breaching the copyright of a song by American heavy metal group, Twisted Sisters for a political jingle
The Twisted Sisters said his version of the song was "awful"and misrepresented the message.
During the hearing , a media report said Palmer was repeatedly accused of lying by claiming he penned the lyrics . He strongly denied he would say anything if he thought it would help his political cause.
Palmer told court he he did not want to pay to use the song because it was not original and a version of the Christmas carol, O Come All Ye Faithful.
In his affidavit ,Palmer was described as someone with a “keen interest in the publication of original poetic works” who “regularly publishes poetic works”.
His legal team argued he did not reproduce a “substantial part” of the song and made “material changes” to the lyrics.The words of Mr Palmer’s song included “Australia ain’t gonna cop it”. Case continuing.
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It will be ironic indeed if the AFL grand final between two Victorian teams played at the Gabba in Brisbane , instead of the MCG, Melbourne, because of COVID-19 , helps Annastacia to retain power.
For our overseas readers, Queenslanders have long referred to Victorians rather disparagingly as Mexicans, they being from across the border, its capital often wet, windy and cold . Hence the use of Mexicans in the heading lyrics .
NEXT : The battle for Townsville becomes increasingly like the U.S. presidential election .
