Hello and welcome back to Australia Institute Live. We are still shaking our heads at the treasurers’ ‘debate’ last night – what was meant to be Jim Chalmers and Angus Taylor answering questions dissolved into Taylor and moderator Ross Greenwood saying whatever they wanted while Chalmers stood there saying ‘that’s a made up number, you’re making up numbers’ while shaking his head.

Disaster.

Today we have Chris Bowen and Ted O’Brien, but that will be at the press club and it’s at lunch time, so while it promises to be painful, it can’t be as bad as what Sky hosted last night.

As expected, Anthony Albanese turned up in Cairns to give Matt Smith’s campaign as he attempts to take the seat from the LNP. Warren Entsch is retiring there, which gives Labor its best opportunity in years, but it at the moment, thinks it will just fall short.

The Coalition is holding on to its energy plan, as it is one of the only things, other than the fuel excise policy, it has to talk about this weekend. Peter Dutton has been left carrying the load, with his shadow ministers largely absent – which is a direct result of how Dutton has run the partyroom. So while there are complaints from Liberal MPs that Dutton is “out there on his own”, perhaps it would be instructive to examine how Dutton has run the Liberal party since taking over, which was picking up the mantle from Scott ‘five ministries’ Morrison and running with it. The Liberal party is learning what happens when you choose ideology over talent and it’s playing out in this campaign.

You’ll have me, Amy Remeikis to guide you through the morning, and then the lovely Glenn Connley will add his voice to the mix when I go from being a typing monkey, to a talking monkey for a couple of hours.

But you’ll have the entire day covered off, along with fact checks from the incredible brains at the Australia Institute. For those who missed it, we fact checked the $1,300 figure the LNP keep using when talking about how much electricity prices have gone up (you’ll be shocked to learn it’s wrong and impossible to work out how they have calculated it) and the 30% increase in groceries Coalition MPs have been throwing around (also wrong – it’s about 12%) yesterday, so keep your questions coming.

Coffee number three is on the stove, so let’s get into it.