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Angus Taylor

Shadow Treasurer. 3 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2019 to 2023. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.

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…

Angus Taylor, Minister for Energy

“The Coalition, through its "hard work", turned around an emissions deficit inherited from Labor.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Misleading

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Taylor's claim is misleading. When the Coalition came to power in September 2013, the most up-to-date projections available were from a Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency report almost a year earlier.…