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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Windfall means something very specific too.
It's not just profits, it's profits exceeding expectations.
So if the company expects to earn 1 billion dollars profit and actually earns 1.1, it's only the .1 that's a windfall.

And as you say, he's a weasel who is likely to define "public good" as "In Clive Palmers person interests".