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Several decades ago, a footballer came from the field at the end of the game and said to his coach, “How did I go?’’ The coach famously replied: “Obviously you went crap. If you had done good, you wouldn’t have to ask.’’
The same could apply to certain nouveau riche self-proclaimed “billionaire entrepreneurs’’ who, on close inspection, often possess little more than massive risky bank loans and the private jet status symbol.
It is intriguing in that context to look at the parallel lives of “billionaires’’ Clive Palmer and the late, disgraced Alan Bond, and how the fragility of their bluster was exposed by a relatively insignificant nickel mine and processing plant at Greenvale, 25km north of Townsville in north Queensland.