“When the carbon tax went into place in this country, one in eight manufacturing jobs was destroyed.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
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. Manufacturing job losses also continued in the years after the carbon tax was scrapped, though not on the scale claimed by Mr Taylor. By contrast, roughly one in eight (127,000) jobs were lost across roughly six years of Labor government — a period that includes nearly five y...
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In short
Angus Taylor (Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction) made this claim around 27 October 2021. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 3 February 2022, 99 days later. Its rating was “Wrong”.
Angus Taylor has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- minister.industry.gov.auhttps://www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/taylor/transcripts/doorstop-parliament-hou…
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