Clive Palmer is the owner of private company Mineralogy and a major shareholder of Australasian Resources. His coal and iron ore interests once made him one of Australia's richest people.
In 2013, he formed the Palmer United Party to contest the federal election, in which he won a seat in the Division of Fairfax in Queensland. He did not recontest this seat in the 2016 election. After formally de-registering the party on 5 May 2017, Mr Palmer revived his party as the United Australia Party in 2018, announcing that he would be running candidates for all 151 seats in the House of Representatives and that he would run as a Queensland candidate for the Senate. In the 2019 and 2022 federal elections, despite extensive advertising, he and his party won no seats.
