Clive Palmer wants carbon tax fight

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Clive Palmer wants carbon tax fight

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Clive Palmer

Gold Coast United owner Clive Palmer. Picture: Mike Batterham Source: The Daily Telegraph

MINING magnate Clive Palmer has urged a rally of climate change sceptics to dig deeper into their pockets and spend more fighting the carbon tax.

Mr Palmer addressed about 300 protesters on the lawn of parliament by phone from Queensland as he said he was unwell and unable to fly to Canberra.

Days after he claimed a link between the CIA and the Greens, Mr Palmer said the Gillard government did not “understand truth.”

“Double the time you are committing to stopping this tax,” he told the rally.

He urged them to spend more fighting the tax which begins on July 1.

Protesters in the crowd held signs with one stating “Dump the frump. Axe the tax.”

An actor dressed as Kevin Rudd with two plastic knives stuck to his suit jacket made jokes about Prime Minister Julia Gillard, implying she was a cow and a whale.

Organisers had said at least one Liberal MP would front the crowd but none did.

The rally was organised by a group which questions the science on climate change.

A group of protesters danced dressed as penguins while the rally was delayed by 30 minutes by a late bus.

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