A DOZEN Climate Change authority executives dining out at a posh Italian restaurant to get to know each other better left tax-payers with an almost $2000 bill.
The dinner was held so the executives of the outfit created in July to review and make recommendations about the carbon tax and other federal government green schemes could meet in “an informal setting” to better their “collective decision making” capacity.
Executives dined at swish Melbourne eatery The Italian Restaurant and Bar on a $135-a-head menu of New Zealand king salmon, calamari, caprese salad, southern supreme beef, gnocchi with oyster mushroom and vanilla panna cotta with dark chocolate.
Source. (HT: Noodle)
FFS – Does it never end?
No
It’s a bit rich, isn’t it?
Most of them are the usual suspects that have been on the public teat one way or another for years; so why in the hell do they have to get to know one another!
It is hopeless the way they splurge money, as if there is no tomorrow.
Authority members at the dinner included Bernie Fraser, Lynne Williams, John Marlay, Professor David Karoly, Heather Ridout, Elana Rubin, Professor Juan Quiggen and CEO Anthea Harris, the spokeswoman said.
Some folks would use the free BBQs on the Yarra for that kind of thing. Snags and a couple of loaves, bag of goon. Suppose that’s little too informal for our climate luvvies.
It is completely normal for board members to dine together and $135 is a standard amount. OK if it were $1350 per person that would be a different thing.
This sort of issue is a distraction from the main game, namely the complete uselessness of the committee itself, and all efforts should be directed totally towards its abolition on philosophical rather than catering grounds.
The Italian Restaurant and Bar on a $135-a-head menu of New Zealand king salmon, calamari, caprese salad, southern supreme beef, gnocchi with oyster mushroom and vanilla panna cotta with dark chocolate.
This doesn’t sound like a locally-sourced eco-compliant menu. I wonder what the carbon footprint of that meal was like?
Is the chicken local?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErRHJlE4PGI
Have you noticed that the body is called the “Climate Change Authority” though it has no authority at all? Its role is to advise the government.
Heh. I’ve worked for a company in the past where $1350 per head dinners by the CEO would have been considered unusually low
Let’s have executives of all companies disclose their meal expenses to their shareholders!
Why are people equating taxpayer funds with private sector shareholders?
Fuckwit Chris, executives are answerable to their shareholders. These professional rent seekers on the other hand have zero accountability.
Huck,
Maybe Chris thinks shareholders were forced to buy into those firms.
Pathetic, leftwing trolling nearly below contempt.
Most were probably getting TA – travel allowance-as well.
“The creatures outside the (restaurant) looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm
Clive Hamilton is on the board. He ran as a Greens candidate.
They are, but your average mum & dad shareholder has no idea what commonly gets expensed. No reason the executives should be afraid of bit more transparency to their shareholders is there? Besides we’re always getting told how the private sector is more efficient aren’t we? As an example to the public sector let everyone see how well the private sector is at containing costs.
You can leave any time you’d like and decline to further fund the running of the country.
You have the temerity to tell me this because I don’t want to buy Juan Quiggen a lunch he’d never be able to buy if he worked in the private sector?
Don’t let the door hit your arse on the way out, come September.
Nonsense and graft like this does not qualify as “running the country”, unless you have a Cabinet full of shit flinging chimps.
It’s a step up from theft.
Without even knowing what QANGO you are talking about, these lists can be filled out with the usual performing seals, tame warm bodies, failed academics, Labor PM spouses and retired public servants.
Not points for Heather Sellout though, she’s a given.
If they must eat at such establishments they could surely all afford to pay for it themselves. They could even claim it as a deduction. And did they have the combined nous to calculate the carbon cost of their little soiree? I’m sure “southern beef” has quite the carbon footprint.
TA – another benefit I have forgotten about – it was around $180 per day for ATSIC people visiting the Kimberley boondocks during the late 1990′s, but God knows what it is now.
The idea that mooching clown posse could “run” anything is laughable in itself.
Screw the climate, what self-respecting Italian restaurant serves salmon!
And then there’s the food miles. God the f..king food miles.
Won’t someone think of the poley bears.
Aaaargh!
Oh to be one of the Privilegentsia.
So when do the special stores for those with Carbon Credit Certificates open?
You’ve got to be joking….
Ever visited the big end of town lately?
The issue is not what they ate, or who paid for it, but what they believe.
Resembles more the coorporate largesse at the Brisbane club.
But that’s OK – they have an entitlement, and the mug shareholder pays.
Luxurious tastes for those who say they care about the world’s climate and how it is most affecting the poor starving Africans …
Notice how the lefties here make no mention of a government department rorting taxpayers’ funds, yet are quite to point the finger at private enterprise wherein the shareholders, who are not forced into handing over their hard earned and who are quite capable of reading financial statements, are labeled by these lefties as idiots and mugs. It’s quite clear then that these lefties agree and applaud government departments and see them as entitled to rip off taxpayers.
Dead fucking right it is numbers.
Rent seekers such as this lot, or you and your family, do not produce anything. You suck at the public teat demanding more and more from those that are productive.
Besides trying to control how people think and behave,the contribution to society is two fifths of fuck all.
Wow, do you think Quiggin would post the entry or just ban you from his blog if you post a query about that snout in the trough episode?
$2k? That’s a very poor effort. Lunch with Ronnie The Mad Chinaman in the Valley used to run to that much each. But then again we paid for it ourselves.
But that’s OK – they have an entitlement, and the mug shareholder pays.
The mug shareholder can have their say and, if they don’t like the outcome, sell their shares and be done with it.
The citizen voter can have their say and, if they don’t like the outcome, bend over and get shafted.
Do you work for the ABC complaints department?
2,000 for 12 people? These wankers can’t even rip of the taxpayer with any panache.
But look at them; we aren’t talking culture and syle here are we?
That’s the problem with lefties, they’re all one step up from bogans.
I wonder if they complained about the lack of fondue and the fact that Blue Nun wasn’t on the wine list?
Obviously the bar bill was separate.
So numbers approves of graft from the taxpayer if they have approved agendas?
You’re a miserable fucker and should move back to North Vietnam.
No. the fucking Labor Party can go to gaol en masse and be forced to undertake hard labour so as to me back for the money they have ripped off me and the rest of the taxpayers.
We’re well into “four legs good, two legs better” territory now. The Czechs had the right idea with these types.
The mind numbing stupidity of numbers and Chris’ response to this subject, almost makes you want the return of shitfer and m0nty. Fucking clueless….. shareholders are mugs, but not the taxpayer, I’ve just about heard it all.
What you have, numbers and Chris, is a fucking mental illness and it needs to be treated.
“The issue is not what they ate, or who paid for it, but what they believe.”
Absolutely true @Numbers – my #1 concern is the delusions these people peddle and the costs they inflict on the rest of us – by comparison stinging taxpayers $2000 for lunch is chicken feed…
It is like a parody. The Goodies would have done a show like this.
Unfortunately the joke is on us.
The level of disgust I feel for these rent seeking leeches knows no bounds. What a shameful act.
that we know of. I’m guessing this lunch is just the tip of the rorting taxpayer iceberg.
$6.4million 2012-13 and it increase by $3million for the following year. $6.4million to support nine “experts”. There’s your rort right there.
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“Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham.
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He said the Coalition would scrap the agency if it won the September election.
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This is an important step. Halle-f’in-lulah!
Boss Boss the bogans are complaining about the higher electricity prices and costs of living…..
“pfffffttttt hmmmmppffff Well Let them eat cake”"
hahahaha, sigh!!!
If ever another example of archetypal behaviour of the lower deck was needed then this fits the pattern very neatly.
Troughers have little responsibility
having never, in their generation or their ancestors, provided sustenance, employment or shelter for any of their fellow countrymen. Like urchins let loose in a lolly shop they would stuff themselves with the goods bought by others, and in this case, by many poorer Australians struggling to make ends meet.
No doubt they were all garrulous experts on the food and wine in the style they only acquired late in life.
Poorly adapted parasites.
Leigh (The Skull) Sales is getting stuck into Daniel Nalliah – yes, the very one who got railroaded by the Victorian anti-villification laws.
He’s being critiqued again as a Christian who has problems with islamic teachings. “Are you encouraging discrimination?” asks the ABC. They don’t usually ask that of the “convert or die” mob.
And he’s further vilified himself by associating with another pet hate of the ABC, Monckton.
Dangerous lot these Christians, the ABC will tell you.
I note that marriage is agreeing with Eliza Harvey (nee Blue), who’s looking more Nigella-ish these days. A welcome counterpoint to the abovementioned skull.
Oh-oh. Should have been on Open Fred.
Strangely, the spud peeler completely missed the point as he crawled through the scrub saving disabled children, and society generally, wherever he went.