Billionaire businessman Clive Palmer and former Government MP Craig Kelly could team up in a court stoush against Facebook.

Mr Palmer met the politician he describes as his "old mate" over lunch inside Parliament House's Members dining room to discuss potentially helping the former Liberal with legal costs.

The now cross-bench MP is considering federal court action against Facebook for removing his page.

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Facebook deleted Mr Kelly's page last month, stating the Sydney-based politician breached the platform's misinformation policy.

"I think there's clear grounds for defamation and breach of contract," Mr Kelly told 9News.

"Facebook have defamed me. They have accused me of spreading misleading information and yet they haven't been able to tell me what was misleading.

"I need crowdfunding … we've got to protect freedom of speech in this country, and if Clive can help then that's a good thing for the country."

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Mr Palmer told Nine News, "I've offered to support him in his quest against Facebook, and I think that's an important thing because it goes to the national integrity of the country".

"Here we've got an American company telling an elected representative of parliament what views he can have and what views he can express. It doesn't matter whether you agree or disagree with that person's views. They should have the right independently to participate in the public system," he said.

A Facebook spokesperson did not comment on possible legal action but said, "We don't allow anyone, including elected officials, to share misinformation about COVID-19 that could lead to imminent physical harm or COVID-19 vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts. We have clear policies against this type of content and have removed Mr Kelly's Facebook Page for repeated violations of this policy." 

Craig Kelly quit the government and moved the cross-bench after being criticised by the Prime Minister for pushing alternative treatments for COVID-19 through his Facebook page. Mr Kelly has always denied he was spreading misinformation.

"We cannot have a situation in this country where a foreign company comes in and is able to shutdown the freedom of speech of a Member of Parliament," Mr Kelly said.

Mr Kelly has maintained he will run at the next election despite not having the finances of a major party behind him.

We have clear policies against this type of content and have removed Mr Kelly's Facebook Page for repeated violations of this policy

Asked if he would finance Mr Kelly's campaign, the billionaire told Nine News, "I'd have to be loyal to my party members at that time. I'd have to support the United Australia Party for that seat."

And asked if that candidate could be Craig Kelly, Mr Palmer said he had not had talks "at this stage" about Mr Kelly joining the United Australia Party, and said the door was "open to all Australians … to stand up for a united country where we don't go to parliament and talk rubbish all day."

The 67-year-old did confirm he would not run again, "time to go out to pasture", he said.

Craig Kelly said he would run to be the member for Hughes as an independent.

A major Queensland shopping centre has apologised after telling a Gold Coast mother she couldn't breastfeed her three-week-old son in a high-end area of the centre.

Mother of two Shannon Laverty claims she was nursing her newborn at Pacific Fair Broadbeach before being told by a concierge three times she should go to feeding "facilities" rather than feed in public.

"She came over right in my face abruptly and said, 'There's actually facilities for your information," Ms Laverty told ABC Coast FM.

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"This is our high-end part of Pacific Fair; if you're not going to use the facility, I'm going to ask you to move on," the concierge allegedly added.

Ms Laverty's experience has divided social media, ranging from opinions supporting the mother of two to chastising anyone who "has a problem with" being asked to move on.

Kath Angus from the Australian Breastfeeding Association said the incident shows that more education needs to be done around breastfeeding.

"It's a really disappointing reaction – I think you see a lot more breasts in some of the advertisements at average bus stops than you do when a mum is breastfeeding her baby at a shopping centre," Ms Angus told 9News.

Pacific Fair has since apologised to Ms Laverty, with the altercation and order being called a "misunderstanding", vowing to re-educate its staff.

"We're really sorry we caused her any offence," Centre General Manager Shaine Beveridge told 9News.

"Breastfeeding mums are welcome to feed whenever and wherever they want within the centre."

The Centre has also revealed it is in negotiations with Ms Laverty, offering her six months of the centre valet to help make amends.

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Opening a room door to pick up a meal in hotel quarantine could be the inciting incident behind the growing COVID-19 cluster in Victoria.

The original coronavirus case involved a man who had returned to Australia and undergone hotel quarantine in Adelaide from April 19.

He was released and returned to Melbourne on May 4. He felt unwell on May 8 and was tested again, returning a positive result on May 11 – 22 days after returning to Australia.

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An SA Health investigation into the case found that the Melbourne man had been initially sequestered next door to a man who was a close contact of a coronavirus-positive patient.

This man himself tested positive to COVID-19 while in hotel quarantine, and was moved to a medi-hotel on May 4.

Reviews of movements, contacts and CCTV could find no high-risk moment that can be definitively pointed to as having spread the virus to the Melbourne man.

However, they were spotted on camera opening their respective doors to pick up deliveries within seconds of one another.

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Even this small window was "highly likely" to have been enough to see the virus transferred through the air, the report found, despite the two men not having so much as laid eyes on one another.

So far, 15 cases of COVID-19 have been linked to the Victoria cluster, resulting in new restrictions being imposed on Greater Melbourne.

The report urged the adoption of extra security measures in SA hotel quarantine, including having guests wear eye protection and facemasks when opening the door, and housing close contacts of COVID-19 patients in medi-hotels rather than hotel quarantine.

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