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Checked by RMIT ABC Fact Check6 Jun 2023Australia Economy and jobs

Angus Taylor, Shadow Treasurer

“We've got the worst inflation — core inflation — in the G7.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Checks out

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Taylor's claim checks out. Core inflation is a measure of consumer prices that removes food and energy price increases from the equation. Data published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (O…

Checked by RMIT ABC Fact Check3 Feb 2022Australia Economy and jobs

Angus Taylor, Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction

“When the carbon tax went into place in this country, one in eight manufacturing jobs was destroyed.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Wrong

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Taylor is wrong. When the carbon tax went into place, manufacturing employed 947,500 people. By the time of its repeal two years later, that number had shrunk by 32,300 (3.4 per cent), with one in 29 workers affected…