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Sunday Night: June 8

Mike Willesee meets Clive Palmer on his own turf, plus a follow-up on Flight VH-MDX.

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2014-06-05_1402This weekend on Sunday Night Mike Willesee meets Clive Palmer on his own turf in Queensland, plus a follow-up on Flight VH-MDX.

Clive Palmer
He’s the flamboyant billionaire with a XXXL personality who’s bankrolled his own political party straight into a position of power. Now sitting in parliament Clive Palmer wants to unveil his agenda – and he’s chosen veteran reporter Mike Willesee to do it. At least that was the plan when Mike was asked by Clive’s publicist to join the entrepreneurial mining magnate on a fact finding mission to the US. The trouble with Clive, as we find out, is that he’s often not on the same page as everyone else. Or even the same plane. This is not your average political story – this is an eye-popping sneak peek into the outrageously lavish lifestyle of a larger than life man who loves big things…..from big ships and big dinosaurs to big breakfasts and big announcements. The purpose of the US trip, Clive told us, was to prepare his Senators-elect – four ‘ordinary Australians’ who will soon hold the balance of power – for their new political careers. Clive picked up the tab for business class flights and luxury hotels, but it didn’t go much to plan – he grounded his luxury jet and never made it to the US, and without their supreme leader clucking over them, Clive’s rookies spill everything about his radical plans. When Willesee finally tracks down the man of the moment – who has already fallen asleep in parliament, sung on the radio and dedicated himself to rebuilding the Titanic cruise liner – it’s not good news for Tony Abbott.

Flight VH-MDX
Last week’s Sunday Night exclusive on Australia’s greatest unsolved aviation mystery has made headlines all week. Flight VH-MDX crashed into the Barrington Tops mountain range in atrocious weather shortly after the pilot was ordered to wait for clearance to enter military controlled airspace. The spine chilling final moments of MDX were captured on cockpit voice recorder – then the aircraft simply vanished without a trace. Thirty three years later the wreckage – and the five men aboard – has not been found. Multiple searches and theories about what happened to MDX have turned up nothing. Aviator Dick Smith says the actions of the RAAF in denying instant access contributed to the tragedy, and all week he has been involved in a war of words with Air Marshall Geoff Brown. This weekend Sunday Night launches the most scientific search for MDX ever conducted, and this most baffling of mysteries might just be on the cusp of being solved.

Sunday, June 8 on Channel Seven at 7.30pm.

6 Responses

  1. I have 1000 hrs flying experience in a Cessna 210’s just like MDX – they don’t have cockpit voice recorders as your article suggests and anyway if they haven’t found the a/c how would they know what is on the non-existent cockpit voice recorder?

  2. clive who
    another want to be sarah palin
    only six years ago rob whats his name tony who and the wantabes were were running the country
    after that the now wiltting greens were or so they all thought
    clive is and will be as quickly forgoten along with all of the many small bumps in the long and ongoing road of australian policits

    PS clive palmer has more money than me

  3. I’m no fan of Palmer, and suspect that he may have certain self-serving motives for entering politics, but like once-upon-a-time I too think that this could be part of a media beat-up job.

    Seven’s ads for this show make it out to not be a flattering look at Palmer and his Senators. Not really surprising for a network that starts any news reports about a protest or anti-govt march with the words “Aussie tax-payers will be footing the bill…”

  4. I can’t help comparing the similarities between Clive Palmer and Pauline Hanson, but completely excluding both their ,’gender’ ‘hair colour’ and ‘size’, also their political agendas/motivations, and also their financial circumstances,leaving the comparisons of similarities of their treatment by some in the ‘media’, who seemingly are again very eager to do the bidding of some very vested interests.

    I’m comparing of course the ‘crucifixion/media job’ on Ms Hanson ( not only politically but personally) with, and if only yet in its infancy, the subtle but targeted discrediting ‘crucifixion/media job’ on Mr Palmer and his ‘PUP’ and sadly also his senator associates.

    Is the similarity, ‘the ousting of anybody not in the established political click’ who puts ‘voters interests first’, instead of the ‘ clicks selfish interests???

  5. This story has been done a few times before … But then again seven news doesn’t think it’s viewers watch the abc

    abc.net.au/austory/specials/countonclive/default.htm

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