Clive Palmer

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Clive Palmer is an Australian mining giant who owns the mining company Mineralogy and is also a member of Australian Parliament

Mar 26, 1954

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: March 26, 1954
  • Nationality: Australian
  • Famous: Politician, Billionaires, University Of Queensland, Business People
  • Hobbies: Litigation
  • Spouses: Anna Topalov-Palmer (m. 2007), Susan Palmer (m. 1983–2005)
  • Known as: Clive Frederick Palmer
  • Childrens: Emily Palmer, Mary Palmer, Michael Palmer Lucy Palmer

Clive Palmer born at

Melbourne

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Birth Place

He married his first wife, Susan, whom he met at university. They had a son and a daughter together before she died of cancer in 2007. He remarried and had two daughters.

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Personal Life

Palmer lives in a villa at one of his resorts, the ‘Palmer Coolum Resort’. He is believed to have several other residences, including 11 properties in the Sovereign Islands.

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Personal Life

He pledged $100 million in support of medical research for indigenous groups in the Western half of Australia. He is the founder, as well as the director, of the ‘Palmer Care Foundation’.

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Personal Life

Palmer was born March 26, 1954 in Melbourne, Australia. His parents, Nancy and George Palmer, were both working class. In 1963, his family made a move to Queensland.

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Childhood & Early Life

He attended ‘St. Mary’s Primary School’, ‘Aquinas College’, ‘Southport State High School’ and ‘Toowomba Grammar School’. During his time at the ‘University of Queensland’, he studied law before dropping out in 1975.

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Childhood & Early Life

In 1974, he joined the National Party of Australia, Queensland division. He was heavily involved, serving in multiple roles.

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Career

During the 1983 state election, he served as the National Party's campaign director. The election was successful.

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Career

Palmer founded ‘Mineralogy’, a mining company, in 1984. Their key product is iron ore, and the company owns more than 1,000 km of Cape Preston’s land.

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During the 1986 campaign for the National Party, he served as the media spokesman.

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Career

In 2008, he purchased Australian coal mining development company ‘Waratah Coal’. At the time or purchase, there was claimed to be a 4.4 billion tone resource.

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Career

During a press conference in 2013, he told the world about his goal of building a replica of the RMS Titanic. The Titanic II, he said, will be built in China and have its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.

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Major Works

Also in 2013, he announced plans to build a dinosaur park not unlike that of ‘Jurassic Park’. It will be built at the Sunshine Coast’s Palmer Coolum Resort.

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Major Works