Conversation: Clive Palmer may have all sorts of motives but one surely is to drive Tony Abbott to distraction.
As Palmer put it on Monday, after sending Joe Hockeys chief of staff Grant Lovett on his way to do more work on budget measures, the government had found it quite surprising that it did not have the power to govern that it had to go to PUP on things.
Perhaps not so much surprising as infuriating and humiliating.
Palmer announced, following his talks with the Hockey officials about the mining...