Clive Palmer’s Monstrous Yellow Billboards Just Got Graffitied Over Again
Commuters noticed the billboard had been defaced this morning.
Commuters on their way to work yesterday discovered that a billboard on Sydney’s Parramatta Road, promoting Clive Palmer and his United Australia Party, had been defaced.
The advertisement, which simply repeated the words “Sold Out” in the party’s signature yellow, was amended by a vandal to include the sentence “Clive Palmer is Scott Morrison’s Sugar Daddy”.
Reddit user CaptainTig posted a photo of the vandalised billboard to r/australia after discovering it on Wednesday morning.
Twitter users were quick to note that other UAP advertisements had also been vandalised in the local area in recent days.
This one on Parramatta road has also been updated! ? pic.twitter.com/dEqgDVBcW0
— Clare Signorelli (@ClareSignorelli) February 23, 2022
Clive Palmer spends 100 times more money on political advertising than any Australian political party, as reported by the Sydney Morning Herald this week. According to the report, Palmer has spent $31 million on advertising since August, while the Labor and Liberal party’s total spending combined equally $492,266 — less than half a million dollars.
In terms of bang for his buck, Palmer’s previous political party, Palmer United Party, won exactly zero seats in the state of Queensland after spending over $83 million on the campaign, as reported by the Australian Financial Review.
The UAP’s political tactic of bombarding electorates with political advertisements has been around since Palmer’s first independent venture into politics in 2013. Vandalism accompanying these campaigns is by no means a new occurrence. In 2018, Palmer’s advertisements were similarly struck by vandals in Sydney and Melbourne.
Clive Palmer has also recently been the personal victim of slightly unhinged publicity stunt, when a group of disgruntled activists attached a giant yellow dildo to his super yacht “Australia”. The group, motivated by the UAP’s widespread campaign texts, told the media that “billionaires should buy boats not politicians”.
A spokesperson from JC Decaux told Junkee that “when an advertisement has been defaced in the way we would replace them in their entirety”.
“In this case this site was reported a couple of days ago so is due to be replaced tomorrow weather permitting.” said the spokesperson.