{"id":16529,"date":"2022-05-08T21:49:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T21:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=16529"},"modified":"2022-05-08T21:49:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T21:49:21","slug":"awu-launches-ad-campaign-against-clive-palmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/05\/08\/awu-launches-ad-campaign-against-clive-palmer\/","title":{"rendered":"AWU launches ad campaign against Clive Palmer\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Australian Workers\u2019 Union will&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1nFfNbEhQtFUS-hDk2cQZIwhNL-lY5Rsm\/view\">today launch an ad campaign<\/a>&nbsp;highlighting Clive Palmer\u2019s controversial record as an employer, including legal wrangling involving workers seeking basic entitlements after the collapse of Queensland Nickel.<br><br>Mr Palmer and his United Australia Party have been spending record amounts of money positioning the billionaire and his team as friends of the average workers.<br><br>But AWU National Secretary Daniel Walton said the image being projected by the UAP marketing material was at odds with Mr Palmer\u2019s form as an employer.<br><br>&#8220;Clive Palmer the politician likes to talk a lot about freedom, but Clive Palmer the employer is a very different character,\u201d Mr Walton said.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfter the collapse of Queensland Nickel and the struggle workers had to go through to get their entitlements, many were silenced with strict non-disparagement clauses \u2014 not exactly \u2018freedom.\u2019<br><br>&#8220;We know the UAP has been successful in picking up support in regional seats, and I don\u2019t blame blue collar workers for a second if they\u2019re looking for an alternative from politics as usual.<br><br>&#8220;But the fact of the matter is Clive just ain\u2019t it. He is no friend of the worker.<br><br>&#8220;We think it\u2019s vital that voters understand who the real Clive is &#8211; and it\u2019s not the big smiling thumbs-up character from his ads.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1nFfNbEhQtFUS-hDk2cQZIwhNL-lY5Rsm\/view\"><strong>Click here to view the ad<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Workers\u2019 Union will&nbsp;today launch an ad campaign&nbsp;highlighting Clive Palmer\u2019s controversial record as an employer, including legal wrangling involving workers seeking basic entitlements after the collapse of Queensland Nickel. Mr Palmer and his United Australia Party have been spending record amounts of money positioning the billionaire and his team as friends of the average &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/05\/08\/awu-launches-ad-campaign-against-clive-palmer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AWU launches ad campaign against Clive Palmer\u00a0&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16530,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529\/revisions\/16530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}