FYI: Clive Palmer And Midnight Oil Frontman Peter Garrett Are Beefing
"I’ve got about $18.5 billion which is a lot more than he’s made in his life from singing songs and whistling."
Clive Palmer has used his speech for the official election campaign launch of the United Australia Party to attack Midnight Oil vocalist Peter Garrett.
Palmer has blamed “pressure” in the marriage of the Midnight Oil frontman after Garrett took aim at the United Australia Party during the band’s second last performance in Queensland a few weeks ago.
Midnight Oil are currently embarking on their final tour of Australia ever, before they pull up stumps and call it quits after several decades of being Australia’s most iconic protest band. During a show at Sunshine Coast Stadium, Garrett paused to reflect about the role Queensland has in the upcoming federal election, before calling Palmer a “turkey”.
“If you think you can actually change the direction of the country with people who are not fit to hold public office – after stuffing up the Coolum resort, and not paying workers in Townsville, and spraying billboards,” Garrett said. “I mean, you’ve seen fat boy up close, you know what a total wank this is!
“People rattle on on talkback radio about un-Australian, well let me tell you, that big giant heap of nothing is the most un-Australian thing I have ever seen.”
Speaking from his resort in Coolum over the weekend, Palmer brushed off Garrett’s remarks by comparing his income to the singer.
“I think Peter is a very intellectual guy and if he thinks I’m a big heap of nothing he can read The Australian that says I’ve got about $18.5 billion which is a lot more than he’s made in his life from singing songs and whistling,” Palmer said during his address. “I like Peter Garrett, I buy his songs and I sing to his music, I think he’s a nice guy but I never insult him by saying something like that about him, so he must be under pressure in his marriage or something like that must’ve gone wrong to make him so angry.”
Palmer’s comments come after the United Australia Party chairman accidentally knocked himself out at a dress rehearsal for his campaign launch over the weekend. Palmer was unconscious for approximately twenty seconds after misjudging the distance between the floor and the stage.
“I found at 68 I couldn’t jump as high as I could at 64,” Palmer told Sky News.