And we thought the best thing to come out of the apple and pinot isle was MONA's David Walsh. But no. Turns out it's Paul Geason, the boss of Momentum Energy, the love-child of Hydro Tasmania, the state-owned monopoly power generator and retailer.

Before hoofing it to Canberra on Wednesday, having been summonsed along with other naughty energy school boys to meet with headmaster Turnbull, Geason got in early telling this newspaper this whole messy energy-security-and-skyrocketing-prices snafu was all the fault of the big boys. According to Geason, it was they – AGL Energy, Origin Energy and EnergyAustralia – who should be put in the naughty corner.