There is a theme that has emerged this year as we get closer to the inevitable election, where Peter Dutton and the Coalition trash every Labor policy – and then immediately adopt it.

Dutton called the energy rebate a “ponzi scheme” on Sunday – but the Coalition has also said it will support it. So now it is in the position of supporting something it is slamming as a ‘ponzi scheme’ (which makes no sense even on the face of it – Dutton’s complaint is that the government is using tax payer money to pay for the rebates, which using that logic makes everything governments do a ‘ponzi scheme’. I mean just wait when he learns about fossil fuel subsidies!

Dutton’s answer by the way, for lowering power costs is to bring more gas into the system. Which is also laughable, given the cost of has has TREBLED. Why is it three times the cost? Because we made the stupid decision to export most of it, which means the cost of gas has now based on the international market, which is terminally volatile.