Clive Palmer has stormed out of an interview on the ABC's flagship television current affairs program, 7.30 bringing the segment to an abrupt end.

In an interview with the show's notoriously unflappable host Sarah Ferguson, in which Mr Palmer appeared from New Zealand, the leader of the fledging balance of power party bristled when the subject moved from Senate shenanigans over Thursday's carbon tax repeal debacle, to his company's business affairs and claims of misuse of Chinese funds.

Asked to repeat comments from earlier in the week suggesting money from a port account paid in by his Chinese business partners had been used to pay for a political campaign run by the management firm Media Circus. he got angry.