Exclusive: Television ads in Victoria and Queensland aim to get state governments to veto Turnbull’s set piece policy

The Queensland and Victorian governments will be hit with a new television advertising campaign in an effort to persuade them to torpedo the National Energy Guarantee at a critical meeting in early August.

The activist group GetUp has combined with Greenpeace to bankroll what it describes as hard-hitting television advertisements targeting the two Labor-held states ahead of a meeting of Energy ministers in August that will make or break the Turnbull government’s signature energy policy.

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