Joking that he was like “an old man now” and a “weird political veteran”, Mr Roy gave some unsolicited advice to the 59-year-old billionaire, who was announced on Thursday as the MP for Fairfax, winning the seat from the LNP candidate by 53 votes. "Clown-like": Clive Palmer. Credit:Michelle Smith Among his advice to the new MP, Mr Roy suggested Mr Palmer should stop thinking of himself as a “novelty” act and model his parliamentary behaviour on that of the former Australia Democrats leader, Don Chipp. Rather than being “clown-like”, Mr Palmer should “adopt a more Don Chipp, sort of very serious, policy sort of approach”, Mr Roy said. “All I would say to Mr Palmer is that his term in Parliament should be about the results that he can deliver for his electorate.

“And [Mr Palmer] has to make a decision about whether that's what he wants to do or he wants to pursue his … almost clown-like approach to politics.” Mr Roy questioned the billionaire's motives for running for Parliament, saying “politics should be about how you change other people's lives for the better, not your own”. “Clive is an individual who's clearly pretty self-interested. I think there are pretty serious questions about that.” Mr Palmer, who is more than 30 years older than Mr Roy, took umbrage at the advice. “Well poor old Wyatt's still developing his personality,” Mr Palmer told Fairfax Media.

“He's only a young boy that's never had a job in his life.” Palmer attacks Newman Mr Palmer used his acceptance speech on Friday, after the Australian Electoral Commission announced him as the winner of the Fairfax recount, to accuse the Campbell Newman government in Queensland of favouring some private companies above others. The leader of the Palmer United Party said on Thursday night he believed there was corruption within the Newman government. When quizzed about the claims on Friday, he said he had ‘‘direct evidence’’ the government had been benefiting certain private companies, to the disadvantage of others.

Loading ‘‘We’ll be revealing that information soon so people can see that,’’ he said. With AAP