Clive Palmer has unleashed on Today host Deborah Knight during a wild rant about his wealth, fake news and his party's surging popularity.

The controversial billionaire's United Australia Party is polling at five per cent of the primary vote just weeks out from the federal election, according to the latest Newspoll.

But Mr Palmer, 65, said his party was actually far more popular than that during a heated interview on Channel Nine's Today on Monday morning.

'That is just fake news of course. We are polling much higher than that. And there is 28 per cent of Australians that have yet to make their decision,' he said.

Clive Palmer (pictured) has delivered an extraordinary rant during a television interview, admitting he was a 'bad person'

Mr Palmer was asked to respond to criticism from Labor's Anthony Albanese that he fell asleep in parliament and was often absent during his term as the MP for Fairfax from 2013 until 2016.

'Let's face it, I'm a bad person. I'm a bad person. Who cares about me? We care about this country,' Mr Palmer said.

'Why do you think we're standing in 151 seats across this nation. Because we intend to win.

'My wealth is $4,000 million. Do you think I give a stuff about what you personally think or anyone else... I care about this country.'

PRIMARY VOTE NEWSPOLL Coalition - 38 per cent Labor - 37 per cent Greens - 9 per cent United Australia Party - 5 per cent One Nation - 4 per cent Source: The Australian Advertisement

Knight asked Mr Palmer if he planned to follow through on his promise to pay the $7million he owes to workers at his failed Queensland Nickel company, prompting a testy reply.

'You're not listening. I said to you a minute ago that I will be paying $7million into a trust account of a solicitor who will disperse that money to the workers that make the claim,' he said.

Mr Palmer refused to confirm if he had agreed to a preference deal with the Liberal Party and Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

He said Opposition Leader Bill Shorten was a liar, and Labor's claims that they had only made brief, informal approaches to him about a preference deal were untrue.

'[Mr Shorten] would love to have our preferences... They lie, lie, lie. That is all Anthony Albanese and Shorten can do. It is not much of an example for our children,' Mr Palmer said.

Mr Palmer has spent about $60million on an extensive advertising campaign, bombarding potential voters with text messages and TV ads.

Mr Palmer finished the interview by twice passionately declaring 'God bless Australia'.

Mr Palmer (right) said his party was actually far more popular than had been reported during a heated interview with the Today Show's Deb Knight (left) on Monday

Mr Albanese had previously called Mr Palmer a 'tosser'.

Among Labor's complaints is that Mr Palmer didn't pay $7million in workers' entitlements after his Queensland nickel refinery collapsed in 2016, while spending millions more on election advertising.

'Scott Morrison had a choice between standing up for ripped off workers or sucking up to a tosser who ripped them off and he chose the tosser - he chose Clive Palmer,' Mr Albanese said on Friday.

Mr Palmer said $7 million will be available to the workers of the refinery through a trust managed by a solicitor from Tuesday.

Labor has ruled out negotiating a preference deal with Mr Palmer after making informal approaches.

Mr Palmer made his money in mining, owning Mineralogy and Queensland Nickel before the refinery it collapsed in 2016 owing $300million to creditors.

Taxpayers were forced to stump up for entitlements for 800 workers after the collapse.

Mr Palmer was caught sleeping during Question Time in the House of Representatives in 2014

Mr Palmer is worth about $1.8billion according to Forbes, and is ranked 20th on the Australian Rich List.

He was a member of the Liberal National Party in Queensland until he formed his own party, the Palmer United Party, in 2013.

He was voted into parliament after an extensive advertising campaign but two of his senators - Jacqui Lambie and Glenn Lazarus - defected from the party.

Mr Palmer was caught sleeping during Question Time in the House of Representatives in 2014 and was criticised for often being absent from parliament, only attending 54 per cent of sitting days.

He chose not to stand for re-election in 2016 and de-registered the party a year later, before reforming it as the United Australia Party in 2018.