Australian Mining Magnate to Run for Parliament

Mining magnate Clive Palmer, one of Australia's richest business people, said Monday he hoped to run for Parliament for the bourgeois opposition, which assessment acclamation advance will win government abutting year.Palmer said he would seek the Liberal National Party's antagonism for the balloter commune captivated by Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan back 1998.BRW annual appear Palmer was Australia's fifth richest actuality aftermost year with an estimated affluence of added than 5 billion Australian dollars ($5.2 billion), and he is the Queensland state-based party's better donor.Politics is about ideas," the 58-year-old told reporters. "You are not activity to become affluent actuality a politician.Palmer is a articulate adversary of fresh taxes on carbon gas emissions and on atramentous and adamant ore mining profits that booty aftereffect on July 1. The center-left Labor Party anesthetized the taxes through the Parliament after the abutment of the opposition.I accept a eyes for this country area there is a actual ample average class, area bodies who assignment adamantine get adequately rewarded, area there is an optimism that comes with amusing advancement — that has abolished in abounding added Western countries," he added, after allotment those countries.