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Clive Palmer is running a multimillion-dollar campaign against the corporate regulator. The only question is: What does he hope to achieve?
By
Mike Seccombe.
Queensland businessman Clive Palmer.
You could hardly think of two more dissimilar people than James Shipton and Dee Snider.
Shipton, the outgoing chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Geelong Grammar old boy, former Goldman Sachs banker, scion of a patrician Melbourne Liberal Party family, looks like he was born in a business suit.
By contrast, Snider’s glam-metal persona as lead singer and main songwriter of the band Twisted Sister involved a rippling bare torso, flying blond curls, lots of tattoos and extravagant eye shadow, rouge and lipstick.