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Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

Inflated charges: push to make landlords pay gas bills

Gas customers could face higher bills as providers try to recover costs from fewer customers. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Australian renters are being slugged almost $440 million a year to stay connected to gas, analysis has shown, even though landlords control whether their properties remain on the network.

Rewiring Australia released the finding on Friday and called for changes to make property owners pay gas connection charges, in a move it says could motivate more landlords to electrify rental homes.

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