Clive Palmer arrived in Canberra in a Rolls Royce - to do his job of representing the unrepresented. Source: AAP
OH dear. There was Clive Palmer peering beneath the bonnet of his chauffeured, but immobile, Rolls Royce.
In Rolls terminology, the vehicle had not broken down. It simply "failed to proceed".
Undeterred, the pinstripe-suited multi-millionaire businessman and MP, set about making it proceed again.
Wielding what appeared to be a ratchet-handle tool and making a few strategic taps, the vehicle returned to life.
Mr Palmer had been dining at the National Press Club with fellow independent MPs Andrew Wilkie and Cathy McGowan who he then whisked back to Parliament House for question time. Earlier, the MP arrived at parliament in the elegant grey chauffeur-driven Rolls, making a grand entrance to the media pack gathered to interview arriving parliamentarians, most delivered aboard much less salubrious commonwealth cars (Comcars).
Van Morrison blaring, the car enthusiast and collector of classic vehicles, fronted reporters, declaring this was his way of trying to pay his own way.
"Members of parliament really don't need Comcars that cost the taxpayer a lot of money," he told them.
Instead that money could be better spent giving it to pensioners.
And if they didn't own a Rolls, MPs could always catch a taxi.
When asked if arriving in such an ostentatious conveyance was appropriate, Mr Palmer said all Australians - regardless of race, nature and wealth - could be members of parliament.
He reminded them that two per cent of Australians were represented by lobbyists in Canberra.
As for the other 98 per cent?
"I am here to represent them," Mr Palmer said.
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