Thank you for asking, but yes Pierpont survived the Diggers & Dealers conference in Kalgoorlie this year still with a few shreds of his liver left intact. There were 2400 delegates and from his survey (mostly conducted at the Gold Bar in the Palace Hotel), every single one of them hates the carbon tax and the Prime Minister with equal intensity.

That’s hardly a political surprise. The biggest political surprise Pierpont has received this year came last month when he opened the business section of this august journal and saw a photo of Bob Brown in bodily contact with a beautiful girl.