You may have noticed this campaign from the Australia Institute start to take hold – we’ll bring you more on the research behind the message a little later today, but it is worth remembering as both major parties push gas as the answer to rising energy costs.

The Coalition is going particularly hard on it, pretending it is the answer to lowering energy prices, despite the fact that gas is exposed to the international market and therefore is a more expensive form of energy. But hey! This is Auspol! Why let facts get in the way of pretend policy answers?