During the 2014–2015 banking year, Queensland Nickel had abundant money to accord $5,947,720 to Mr Palmer's Palmer United Party.
And on Saturday abstracts appear by the Electoral Commission of Queensland appear Queensland Nickel donated $288,516 to PUP on December 31, just a fortnight afore absolution agents go.
Local federal LNP affiliate Ewen Jones said Mr Palmer, the self-styled billionaire who is aswell federal affiliate for Fairfax, should pay the millions of dollars aback to the refinery.
"It beggars belief, to be absolutely honest, you can accept what was traveling on in December amid Mr Palmer, Queensland Nickel, (managing administrator Clive) Mensink and the Queensland Government, and they about-face about and say they can accord addition $290,000," Mr Jones said.
"I anticipate the workers at Queensland Nickel are actual bleak at the moment.
"Mr Palmer should use every bit of his access with both himself, Queensland Nickel and Palmer United Affair to forward a bulletin to anybody in Townsville and all levels of government that he's actual austere about this refinery, and do whatever he can to accomplish abiding the money paid out by Queensland Nickel to Palmer United Affair is repaid as a amount of faith."
Mr Palmer was in discussions with the Queensland Government for a $35 actor bailout to accumulate the nickel operation at Yabulu abreast Townsville afloat but was agape aback backward endure year.
Queensland Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg said he accurate the Labor Government's accommodation to abatement banking abutment to the company.
"We accept Mr Palmer on one duke altruistic money to his own political affair from his aggregation which is complex in retrenching about 240 workers, and calling on the Queensland Accompaniment Government to bond out his company," he said.
"I anticipate that abounding humans would absolutely be afraid their arch as to the adventurousness of that.
"We don't apprehend the Government to appear in and bond out clandestine businesses — that is not the role of government."
Union and workers acknowledge to 'horrible saga'
On Friday the Australian Workers Abutment (AWU) said it believed about 550 advisers would abide with the business afterwards the lay-offs.
AWU accompaniment secretary Ben Swan it had been "a abhorrent adventure that's been traveling on for a amount of months".
"Palmer needs to stop ripping money out of the business to armamentarium his political fantasies," he said.
The Accompaniment Government has set up a taskforce to advice workers with their entitlements.
Sacked agent and abutment agent Steve Lovell said he would be cat-and-mouse with apprehension for updates.
"I'll just be cat-and-mouse for Wednesday I suppose, to see if we can get paid our entitlements," he said.
Fellow sacked agent Rohan O'Farrell said while the accommodation was black for workers, it was no surprise.
"It's not abrupt account ... the abode has been down for 12 months or so. It's just happened to appear to a arch today," he said.
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