Antinuclear

Building a nuclear reactor in South Australia will be Clive Palmer’s final pitch to voters on the eve of the Federal Election, a man who was selected to represent him has told the Sunday Mail.

The bold project has been revealed by Adrian Cheok, who was selected to run as the second Senate candidate for Palmer’s United Australia Party.

Professor Cheok has quit the party, in part because he says the mining magnate is not the Donald Trump-like figure he wanted to represent.

The awarded University of Adelaide alumnus, who has specialised in human-computer interfaces, has also told the Sunday Mail:

CANDIDATES elected to parliament who then leave, or breach party rules, have to repay $250,000 as a reimbursement for the costs and expenses of the party.

TRUMP’S chief strategist Steve Bannon and Mr Palmer had a meeting to discuss political tactics.

CEASE and desist notices are used as a tactic to stop party members talking to each other about policy.

PALMER kept asking the professor to get a haircut to match a picture, taken from social media and used on party promotions, from 15 years earlier.

AGREEMENTS were made for him work as chief of staff for the party’s lead candidate, former Adelaide United soccer player Kristian Rees, for three years and then take over the Senate spot.

The party did not deny the claims when contacted by the Sunday Mail but said that Professor Cheok had resigned because he “wasn’t happy” being the number two Senate candidate.

Professor Cheok said the party’s big idea to woo South Australian voters would be something that has never been done in Australia, would require expertise from overseas and would not employ “a single worker from Salisbury”.

“He said to me that ‘one week before the election we are going to announce South Australia is going to have a nuclear reactor’,” he said.

“He said ‘it is going to win us the election in South Australia’. I think everything is related to mining in his mind.”…..