Clive Palmer addresses Queensland's LNP conference in July. Picture: Annette Dew Source: The Courier-Mail
OUTSPOKEN billionaire and LNP donor Clive Palmer has compared members of the party's hierarchy to Nazis in an insult likely to inflame an already tense situation.
Internal divisions in the LNP deepened yesterday as the mining magnate took aim, and Gold Coast MP Alex Douglas dragged Premier Campbell Newman into the fray by demanding he intervene in a dispute between MPs.
Mr Palmer's LNP life membership was suspended on Friday following a blistering attack in which he called for the removal of Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney and Treasurer Tim Nicholls and claimed "crooks" in Cabinet had cooked the books to exaggerate the state deficit.
Mr Palmer said his suspension was punishment for lodging a complaint with the LNP just hours earlier against Mr Seeney.
The entrepreneur, who has lodged legal action against Mr Seeney and the Co-ordinator General over the rejection of his Waratah Coal project as a preferred tenderer for a multibillion-dollar mine/rail/port development in central Queensland, accused Mr Seeney of bullying by ordering an audit of his mining operations.
He described the action as a misuse of power comparable to the disregard Nazis held for the courts in the lead-up to World War II.
"It was extraordinary to me that any government in Australia would use stormtrooper tactics to get at a person just because they have gone to court to get a decision," Mr Palmer said.
"By suspending me, they don't have to deal with the issues I've raised."
It also prevented him from lodging further complaints that the Newman Government was introducing policies that had not been passed by the party conference.
"I support the LNP and its policies, but not policies which have not been endorsed by the party. I did not join the Campbell Newman Party."
SHOWDOWN: Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has been dragged into the fray between the Liberal National Party and billionaire Clive Palmer.
The decision to suspend Mr Palmer with immediate effect was made by the LNP's four-member president's committee, pending a final ruling at the party's executive meeting on November 23.
The entrepreneur yesterday said he had no regrets over his actions and said his phone had not stopped ringing with calls of support, including from two Government ministers and 17 backbench MPs "expressing outrage at how I've been treated".
He said his intention was "not to split the party, but fix it" and encouraged the "10,000 good people in the LNP" to make their feelings known to the state executive.
A spokesman for Premier Campbell Newman dismissed the comments, saying: "I will not be distracted by a billionaire's media antics" and would focus on "serious issues like rebuilding the economy and creating jobs for families."
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