Clive Palmer suing WA government for $30bn in move labelled 'rapacious' by attorney general

John Quigley has introduced emergency legislation into parliament in a bid to prevent potentially dire consequences for the state'

The mining billionaire Clive Palmer is suing the Western Australian government for $30bn, the state's attorney general has revealed.

The WA attorney general, John Quigley, introduced emergency legislation into the state's parliament on Tuesday in a bid to prevent potentially dire consequences for the state" after Palmer and his company, Mineralogy, lodged the claim as part of a dispute related to one of the businessman's iron ore projects in the Pilbara region.