Originally published: news.com.au, 19 March 2026
Aussie dads might mean well, but their energy-saving hacks don’t always cool the home or bill.
New research suggests dad hacks from kiddie pools in the lounge room to help young families beat the heat, light‑switch policing to aircon crusades aren’t cutting the household energy bill as expected.
The research conducted by Pureprofile and commissioned by Origin surveyed a national representative sample of 1,004 Aussie dads with 68 per cent of respondents aged between 35 and 64.
A 64 per cent of dads revealed to hate a light left on in an empty room while 41 per cent of dads lose their cool over the aircon.
Only 27 per cent of Dads are confident their hacks work, 45 per cent were said to be copying their parents, 27 per cent listen to mates and 19 per cent admit they are just winging it.
