Firstly, to address the glaring issue: Clive Palmer is apparently still pursuing his utterly ludicrous Titanic II project. As in, a replica of the Titanic – the supposedly “unsinkable” ship that sank in 1912, killing thousands – that Palmer plans to build and operate as a legitimate and staggeringly expensive cruise ship.
That’s a true fact. That much is indisputable.
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Now then, for the latest insane development in Palmer’s on-going series of unfathomably deadshit decisions.
Palmer has seen fit to appoint a new European director of the company: his own nephew, would you believe.
That man, who is now in charge of a Titanic II project, goes by the name of Clive Mensink.
Mensink.
Titanic.
Unbelievable stuff.
Mensink, as it turns out, has long-held doings with Palmer’s various transpirings: Mensink was run as a candidate for the Palmer United Party in the northern-Brisbane seat of Dickson in the 2013 Federal election, and in the north Queensland electorate of Mundingburra in the 2015 QLD state election, both of which he soundly lost. Following that, Palmer installed Mensink as the national director of the PUP until the party was deregistered in 2017.
He also happens to be a wanted fugitive, unbelievably.
See, Mensink was also the sole registered director of Queensland Nickel at the time of its collapse, forcing some 800 employees out of work, leaving creditors around $300million in the lurch, and casting severe questions over just what in the blue hell Palmer did with the staggering amounts of money that was funnelled into it.
Mensink summarily fled the country – or, as the official reasoning states, he “went on extended holiday” – and refused requests for him to return home and face questioning in Federal Court, leading to two arrest warrants being issued on charges of contempt.
Allegedly, he’s somewhere in Bulgaria, having been seen in the capital city of Bulgaria. Palmer, for what it’s worth, claims he doesn’t really know where Mensink is at any given time, even despite the fact Palmer’s various companies still pay Mensink around $4,000 per week. That said, Palmer claims to have met old mate in Bulgaria to discuss the job, which theoretically would be based in London, asserting in a statement issued today that “Mr Mensink is the perfect candidate to deliver a world class experience with Titanic II.”
But the bottom line here, we cannot stress enough, is that Palmer’s Titanic project is being run by a man named Mensink and that is incredibly funny.
