Brekkie Crumbs (Notes from the NewsRadio Breakfast team) for Monday November 23rd
Glen - Breakfast presenter …
So, things have certainly been getting hot & heavy lately:
Temperatures rising to heat wave levels in many states as November records fall - and all this before Summer has started.
What’s going on? Could the climate be changing? Could the globe be warming ??
To that end, the Federal politicians continue to wrestle with the so called solution to our continued carbon pollution problem.
But is the right solution or is it the wrong answer to the right question ? Can’t help but think sometimes that the longer this has gone on - the more exemptions, compensation, trade-offs, and pay offs get added to the scheme - the further away it gets from being an adequate way to address the issue.
Why not a carbon pollution tax - a CPT if you like - that, like the GST, would apply only to domestic use not exports? It would act as a disincentive to emitters, while raising revenue to boost the budget to allow for the funding of other initiatives and/or the removal of other taxes to compensate those hit hardest by the new impost.
God knows it would be easier to comprehend and perhaps support.
Also hot stuff going on in South Australian Parliamentary offices, or so it is claimed. Way too much information provided in that story of the Premier, the waitress, her car, and his desk. Steamy stuff that must’ve made the media mob involved think it was worth paying big bucks for.
Very interesting reactions already. Our poll question responses suggesting some people would rather not know the gory details. It’s been a big year for political sex - and there’s still 6 hot weeks to go.
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Mark - Breakfast EP:
She says they were both guilty of “bad behaviour”.
He says he rejects any suggestions he “preyed on her vulnerabilities”…
She says they had sex on the desk in his office.
He says the television program in which she went public about their alleged affair “included a series of allegations that were totally false”.
She says he coached her to lie about the alleged affair to her husband.
He says she WAS “a friend” and is a good mother.
I am, of course, talking about the former South Australian Parliamentary bar waitress Michelle Chantelois and the Premier of that state, Mike Rann.
Did they have an affair?
Don’t know. Don’t care.
Far more interesting is this wonderful piece by The Australian’s Pia Akerman on the sensuous surrounds of the leader of the Festival State’s office.
It’s enough to get you hot under the collar.
I’m moving to Adelaide…
