The Sydney Morning Herald writes
For a billionaire best known for his eccentric, attention-seeking behaviour, Clive Palmer sometimes tries very hard to avoid the spotlight.
The mining magnate took great pains to conceal his bankrolling of an aborted class action lawsuit against Telstra over the telco’s vaccination mandates, with Palmer’s identity as the litigation funder only revealed in the Federal Court this week.
Last year, a former Telstra installer-repairer took the company to court, claiming its vaccine mandates breached enterprise agreements and work health and safety laws.
By March of this year, the applicants sought to discontinue proceedings, after an individual known only as “the funder” stopped backing the suit.
In submissions made to Federal Court Justice Bernard Murphy, lawyer Sam Iskander, who’s often acted for Palmer, fought to maintain the billionaire’s confidentiality after providing the judge with a copy of the agreement disclosing his identity.
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