The heat hasn’t sapped our curiosity. If anything, we’re more curious than ever. For instance, we wonder …

Will the nation’s photojournalists run out of bikini babes to snap if the country-wide heatwave continues?

Do paper boys and girls still get paid the same for carting such a light load?

Has The Australian Financial Review died, or just gone to Batemans Bay on holiday?

If MPs extol the virtues of holidaying in Australia for the local tourism industry, did they really think their long-planned overseas Christmas jaunt with the family wouldn’t be used against them?

What else is in Tony Abbott’s fridge?

If the fiscal cliff has been downgraded to a fiscal knoll, will the bloody thing every go away?

And now I’m back in the office, where has my highlighter gone?

It starts early. We answer none of those questions today, as we stump up for another big (federal election) year at Crikey. You’re welcome.