With more than an hour of videos and a folk band playing revised versions of Australian classics, the United Australia Party campaign launch on Queensland's Sunshine Coast becomes a marathon affair.
About 1,000 United Australia Party faithful gathered at Palmer Coolum Resort on the Sunshine Coast this afternoon for what proved to be a marathon election campaign launch.Party chairman Clive Palmer claims the UAP would cap interest rates for five yearsAfterwards, party chairman Clive Palmer vowed to place the Greens last on how-to-vote cards and said they would not preference major parties at all in the Senate.
With the crowd now awake after staring at screens for almost an hour, it seemed like the time to bring in the party's main players. He said the UAP would pay back Australian debt in 20 years by placing a 15 per cent export licence on iron ore, to be paid by overseas buyers, with money quarantined for national debt.Mr Palmer introduced party leader Craig Kelly as "Australia's next prime minister".
Addressing the faithful, Mr Kelly covered much of the same ground as Mr Palmer, and again railed against lockdowns and vaccine mandates and a "Liberal-Labor coalition".Abolish fringe benefits taxDemand $1 trillion in Australian super be reinvested in Australia
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