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Angus Taylor | |
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Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction | |
In office 8 October 2021 –23 May 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Scott Morrison |
Preceded by | Himself (as Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction) Christian Porter (as Minister for Industry,Science and Technology) |
Succeeded by | Chris Bowen (as Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Ed Husic (as Minister for Industry and Science) |
Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction | |
In office 29 May 2019 –8 October 2021 | |
Prime Minister | Scott Morrison |
Preceded by | Himself (as Minister for Energy) |
Succeeded by | Himself (as Minister for Industry,Energy and Emissions Reduction) |
Minister for Energy | |
In office 28 August 2018 –29 May 2019 | |
Prime Minister | Scott Morrison |
Preceded by | Josh Frydenberg (as Minister for the Environment and Energy) |
Succeeded by | Himself (as Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction) |
Minister for Law Enforcement and Cybersecurity | |
In office 20 December 2017 –23 August 2018 | |
Prime Minister | Malcolm Turnbull |
Minister | Peter Dutton Scott Morrison (Acting) |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Office abolished |
Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation | |
In office 18 February 2016 –20 December 2017 | |
Prime Minister | Malcolm Turnbull |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Michael Keenan |
Member of the Australian Parliament for Hume | |
Assumed office 7 September 2013 | |
Preceded by | Alby Schultz |
Personal details | |
Born | Nimmitabel,New South Wales,Australia | 30 September 1966
Political party | Liberal |
Spouse | Louise Clegg |
Children | 4 [1] |
Residence(s) | Goulburn,New South Wales [1] |
Education | The King's School,Parramatta |
Alma mater | University of Sydney New College,Oxford |
Occupation | Politician |
Angus Taylor (born 30 September 1966) is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2013,representing the seat of Hume for the Liberal Party. He has been shadow treasurer under Peter Dutton since 2022,having previously been a cabinet minister in the Morrison government from 2018 to 2022.
Taylor was raised in country New South Wales. He graduated from the University of Sydney and New College,Oxford,attending the latter as a Rhodes Scholar. Prior to entering politics he worked as a management consultant and was active in agribusiness. Taylor was elected to parliament at the 2013 federal election. Taylor was made an assistant minister in the Turnbull government in 2015 and appointed Minister for Law Enforcement and Cybersecurity in 2017. He supported Peter Dutton in the 2018 Liberal leadership spills,and was subsequently elevated to cabinet after Scott Morrison defeated Dutton for the leadership. He held office as Minister for Energy (2018–2019),Energy and Emissions Reduction (2019–2021),and Industry,Energy and Emissions Reduction (2021–2022). He was appointed shadow treasurer after the Coalition's defeat at the 2022 election.
Taylor is a member of the National Right faction of the Liberal Party. [2] [3]
Taylor was born to Anne and Peter Taylor,who raised him and his three brothers on their property Bobingah, [4] a sheep and cattle farm in the foothills of the Australian Alps of New South Wales.
His father is a fourth generation sheep farmer. [5] Taylor's maternal grandfather was engineer Sir William Hudson,whom he regarded as a role model. [6]
His mother passed away due to cancer in 1988 at the age of 48. Contemporaneous to her death was a collapse in wool and beef prices due to drought,an event that brought financial stress upon the Taylor family. [7] Peter's experience of drought drove him to political advocacy on behalf of farmers,and he eventually became President of NSW Farmers and Vice President of the National Farmers Federation. [8]
Angus completed primary school at Nimmitabel's local primary school. [9] He then boarded at The King's School,Parramatta. [10] Upon graduation,he studied at the University of Sydney while residing at St Andrew's College,graduating with a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws.
Angus then won a Rhodes Scholarship,and elected to study a Master of Philosophy in Economics at New College,Oxford. [11] [12] Here,he studied "Smith,Bentham,Burke,Mill,Marshall,Schumpeter,Galbraith,Keynes and Friedman", [13] during his studies he developed an interest in the game theory of John Forbes Nash Jr. He applied Nash's theories to make an analysis of English pubs,to argue that they ought be protected from being dominated by large brewing companies. [14]
Immediately after leaving Oxford,Taylor “spent the best part of two decades in management consulting.” [14] He helped create[ dubious ] enterprises for clients,notably Fonterra. [7] Equally,he experienced "the ignominy of failure" [13] leading starts ups that did not take off,such as agribusiness dotcom,Farmshed. [7] After consulting,Taylor helped launch a number of agribusinesses with his brothers and other business partners,including Growth Farms. [8]
Taylor joined his brother Charlie at McKinsey &Co,a global management consulting firm,in 1994. Projects took him to Korea,the US and the UK [14] but most notably to New Zealand,where he worked with dairy farmers to create a new business model for their industry. Taylor “spent four years working on a master plan:to unify the bitterly divided industry into a single national champion." [7] His analysis found “it cost New Zealand farmers around $US12 to produce 100 kilograms of milk product,making them the world’s most efficient producers.”From there he recommended the 10,600 dairy farmers form a multi-national dairy co-operative. Fonterra was launched in October 2001. [15] Two decades later,it was regarded as “one of the most successful strategic decisions in agri-business history" and is used as a business transformation model at Harvard Business School. [7] Taylor returned to Sydney and was made a partner in 1999. [11] [12]
Around this time,Taylor developed a digital agribusiness called Farmshed. [7] He convinced his employer,McKinsey,to back the project along with Wesfarmers,Rural Press and,later,JB Were and NAB. Based in Surry Hills,Taylor was the MD. However,when Wesfarmers merged with IAMA,they began to see Farmshed as undercutting their own business. The online business failed "with a loss of several million dollars.” [7] The Wesfarmers MD,Richard Goyder,later said Farmshed was "years ahead of its time." [7]
Taylor went on to become a Director at Port Jackson Partners,an Australian management consulting firm. During this tenure,Taylor was a member of the Victorian government taskforce to investigate the development of a coal seam gas industry in the state. [16] Reporting in November 2013,the taskforce recommended that the State of Victoria should promote the production of additional and largely on-shore gas supply. [16] He also served as the Director of Rabobank's Executive Development Program for leading farmers in Australia and New Zealand,as well as their Farm Managers Program which focused on younger farmers. [17]
After leaving Port Jackson Partners,Taylor developed several businesses with family members and fellow investors,largely connected to irrigation and agriculture. Management of these businesses were relinquished on his taking his seat in parliament. Some of these continue,whole or partly owned by the holding company of Taylor's family Gufee Pty Ltd,a family trust which is declared on Register of Members' Interests. [8]
Eastern Australia Irrigation (EAI) was co-founded by Taylor and he was a director from 2007 [18] to 2012. [19] In mid 2008 he was also a director and secretary of its parent company,Eastern Australia Agriculture (EAA). Records show he never took equity or received a dividend from that corporation and,by the end of 2009 he had ended his relationship with the company. [18] In 2019,Taylor's earlier dealings with the company were given media attention as EAA had sold water licences from two of its agricultural properties back to the Australian government in 2017 for $79 million— a profit to the company of $52 million. In 2018 EAA appears to have paid its Cayman Islands-registered holding company,Eastern Australia Irrigation,$14 million in interest at the extraordinarily high interest rate of around 20%. At the time,Taylor reiterated that he was not connected to the company at the time of the water licence transaction,hadn't been since 2009 [20] and had not received any financial benefit from the water purchase. [21]
Farm PartnershipsAustralia has been described as a progressive farm-leasing business venture [8] owned by Gufee. By 2015 it was managing 35 properties in Victoria,NSW and Queensland,with a total of 109,000 hectares of land under management. At this time,it's known these properties produced 47,000 bales of cotton,58,000 tonnes of sugarcane,25,000ha of winter crops,157,000 sheep and 15,000 cattle. [8]
Growth Farms is an agribusiness formed by Taylor with his oldest brother,Richard in 1999s, [22] holding a non-controlling stake through Gufee until it sold its interest in early 2020. [22] At first,the company focussed on leveraged-leaseholds of high-rainfall properties in the Southern Tablelands and Monaro. The approach caused serious financing issues as “the cost of it doubled market-wise.” [8] The company then shifted to consulting and by 2015 it was “acting in the purchase of more than $200 million of Australian farmland in the past three years.” [8] It enjoyed early expansion when it won Sir Michael Hintze as a client,managing his 12 properties across Australia. [8] The company manages the very large Queensland properties Clyde and Kia Ora as well as the Kerry Stokes-owned Cygnet Park on Kangaroo Island. [22] The group owns “Hyland Grange”,“Bellevue”and the old Taylor family property “Bobingah”all in the South East of NSW. One of the farms managed by the group is at Corrowong near Delegate. [23] Operations at this property came under the scrutiny of environmental agencies when managers used a herbicide that was later seen to be a threat to an endangered species of native grass. [24] The investigation by NSW Environment &Heritage concluded in April 2017,finding there was no case to answer. The Federal Department of Agriculture,Water and the Environment began its own investigation and Taylor met with officers from the Department of Environment. [25] This has been seen as "a potential breach of the ministerial code of conduct",generating intense media scrutiny,particularly in The Guardian [26] and came to dominate Question Time in Parliament by late 2019. [23] Taylor has been unrepentant,saying,“If I’m not standing up for farmers in the federal parliament,then who is?” [27]
Jam Land is a holding company is also part owned by Gufee Pty Ltd. [28] Taylor's brother and business partner,Richard,is one of the three owners. [28]
JRAT International was company set up for consulting projects in the early 2000s. The company appears to never have begun business operations. Taylor admitted in 2020 [29] that while the company should have appeared on his register of parliamentary interests [30] “the company did no business,and earned no income,and I received absolutely no benefit from it."
Angus Taylor results in Hume | 2013 | 2016 | 2019 |
1st preference % | 53.97 | 53.83 | 50.30 |
2-party-preferred % | 61.47 | 60.18 | 62.99 |
Taylor first showed an interest in politics when he returned from Oxford,joining the Liberal Party when he was 26. [31] He volunteered as a staffer for Barry O'Farrell,then a member of NSW state parliament who later became Premier. O'Farrell encouraged him to "have a career before politics" and Taylor moved to consulting. [14] About twenty years later,he met John Howard at a Heart Foundation fundraiser where the Prime Minister strongly encouraged Taylor to run for Parliament,saying it's important "we get as many people as possible who have had more life experience." [7] Learning that Alby Schultz,the Member for Hume was considering retirement,in 2011 [7] Taylor moved his family from Woollahra to the Southern Tablelands,on a farm outside of Goulburn,enrolling his children in local schools. [32]
Schultz announced in April 2012 that he would not re-contest the seat of Hume at the 2013 federal election,and Taylor immediately sought and gained Liberal endorsement for the seat of Hume,26 votes out of 33. [31] One of the candidates he defeated,Rick Mandelson,later appeared to endorse Taylor,saying "more common sense (is needed) in the Parliament along with someone who's actually done some things,not just academics,lawyers and union reps." [33]
Taylor's wife,Louise Clegg,stepped back from her career as a barrister and law lecturer to run Taylor's election campaign "with military precision and solid financial support.” [32] Records show he backed his campaign with his own donations during 2012–2013. [34] Under Coalition rules,the Nationals were also entitled to run a candidate against Taylor,but decided not to. [35] Taylor was elected as Member for Hume with over 61% of the two-party preferred vote and over 54% of the primary vote. [36] Taylor joined the Government benches under new Prime Minister Tony Abbott as a "talented and somewhat impatient" MP,with a suspicious view of government procedures. In an interview early in his parliamentary career he said:
I hate,I mean really hate,fart-arsing around. I insist on getting things done. And yet that is what government specialises in. It specialises in fart-arsing. In stopping anything from happening,or insisting that the longest route is taken. I do delivery. [7]
Soon into his role as a backbencher,Taylor called for an overhaul to the Renewable energy target,which the Liberal Party had supported up to that point. He's known to have written and circulated a paper outlining how many renewable energy projects,in particular wind [37] are increasing electricity costs,and proposed cheaper carbon reduction methods. [38] He was particularly supportive of turning to natural gas as "a better way to reduce carbon emissions." [39] His point of view seems to have been long held —in a 2013 letter to the editor of the Crookwell Gazette , [40] Taylor stated that he became engaged in "the wind farm debate" in approximately 2003 when a plan was announced to build turbines on a ridge behind his boyhood home,referring to the Boco Rock Wind Farm approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from Nimmitabel, [41] which commenced construction in August 2013. [42] At points he has used inflammatory language against supporters of windpower,describing them as "the new climate religion." [43] As a speaker at the "Wind Power Fraud Rally" Taylor both criticised windpower while accepting the need to reduce emissions: [44]
I am not a climate sceptic. For 25 years,I have been concerned about how rising carbon dioxide emissions might have an impact on our climate. It remains a concern of mine today. I do not have a vendetta against renewables. My grandfather was William Hudson –he was the first Commissioner and Chief Engineer of the Snowy Scheme,Australia's greatest ever renewable scheme. He believed in renewables and renewables have been in my blood since the day I was born. [44]
Taylor began working on parliamentary committees on employment,trade and investment growth and public accounts. [45] In these forums he argued against increasing government debt,saying that Australia's long-term prosperity is characterised by high real wages and low inequality,and that only by increasing productivity and participation,will Australia's broad-based prosperity continue. [46] Taylor was not given any portfolio by Tony Abbott during this Parliament. The Australian Financial Review said that he had been "left to languish" [47] which,The Guardian speculated,was because other MPs "had deeper political networks." [48]
Mobile phone black spots were a prominent concern for people in the Southern Tablelands and Taylor said he was "determined to fix this." [49] By 2015,funding had been secured for new towers in Wollondilly,one of 18 new towers for the region funded under round 1 of a Federal Program. [50] Goulburn,a town that had suffered badly in 2000s Australian drought,received $10 million in funding for a new wastewater plant. [51]
In September 2015,the Federal Liberal Party elected a new leader and Malcolm Turnbull was made Prime Minister of Australia. The following year,Turnbull appointed Taylor to his first portfolio.[ citation needed ]
On 18 February 2016 Taylor was sworn in as the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation following a rearrangement in the First Turnbull Ministry. [52] [53] This new portfolio gave Taylor scope to encourage innovation,both within government and in small business. He was "instrumental in ensuring that a single digital profile would be adopted for clients of the federal agencies,rather than letting departments run off in all directions.” [32] By May 2017,usage of myGov had doubled in two years. [54] Taylor oversaw commercialisation grants of $11.2 million to 24 Australian start-ups under the Entrepreneur's Program.[ citation needed ]
At the 2016 federal election,the Turnbull government was returned to power with "a severely reduced majority." [55] Taylor faced a pre-selection threat,from Russell Matheson,which was averted. [56] Then came the threat of the redistribution of his seat,making it less regional and more urban,which was thought to favour the Labor Party. [56] He managed to retain his seat with 60.18% of the two party preferred vote.[ citation needed ]
Shortly after the election,and with less than two years with his first portfolio,Taylor was brought to the front bench as Minister for Law Enforcement and Cybersecurity. In this role,he appointed the first Commonwealth Transnational Serious and Organised Crime Coordinator. [57] This innovation has been seen as providing "a mechanism to lead and strengthen national disruption efforts" against organised crime. [58] It was also expected to lead to arrests for human trafficking and child pornography. [58]
Taylor was sworn in as Minister for Energy on 28 August 2018. In interviews,he was quick to emphasise that his focus would be on "price,price,price" rather than renewable energy. [59] While reluctant to say the Turnbull-era National Energy Guarantee was "dead" it became clear that the only part of the policy which would remain would be its "focus on reliability." He quickly began receiving criticism for his performance in his portfolio. This began with the ABC querying a "rejected a billion-dollar plan to help struggling households pay their power bills" and,more seriously,that his claims that Australia would still meet its commitments to the Paris Agreement were "not what the figures show." [60] Senator Penny Wong,the Labor leader in the Senate said,"I don't think there's been a climate minister,energy minister who's been more anti-renewable than Angus Taylor." [61]
Following the 21 August 2018 leadership spill which challenged Malcolm Turnbull for leadership of the Liberal Party,Taylor was one of several frontbenchers to announce his resignation. Taylor wrote in a letter to Turnbull that he was resigning due to his support for Petter Dutton:"I have previously relayed to you my concerns about the direction of this Government,and my views on the policies that should characterise a traditional centre-right Liberal Party." [62] After a second spill later in the week,Turnbull resigned as Prime Minister,with Scott Morrison being elected leader. Taylor was subsequently appointed as Minister for Energy,characterised by Morrison as "Minister for reducing electricity prices". His appointment prompted strong criticism from renewable energy advocates. [63]
The Liberal Party was "widely expected"[ by whom? ] to lose the 2019 federal election. In the run up,Taylor was accused of scandal by progressives on Twitter [64] and was targeted in the electorate by the pressure group GetUp! [65] Against pressure to move to a 45% renewable energy target,Taylor put emphasis on reducing the cost of energy with two announcements. First of a default market offer price,which would limit the price that retailers can charge residential and small businesses. [66] and a wholesale price target [67] "at less than $70 a megawatt-hour by the end of 2021." [68] Taylor said a 4000-megawatt portfolio of power projects underwritten by the government would "put the big energy companies on notice" if they did not achieve these price targets. [68] Locally,Taylor campaigned on his record of low unemployment,growth of 1,040 new businesses and infrastructure investments. [69] On the day,Taylor increased his two-party-preferred margin from 10.18% to 12.99%. The Morrison government was returned with a stronger majority and Taylor was invited to join the Second Morrison Ministry. With the win,Taylor said "the confidence and belief in what we are doing,inspired me." [69]
Taylor was sworn in as Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction on 29 May 2019. [70] Criticism for his performance continued and in October 2019,Taylor was said to be repeating misleading claims about the previous Labor government's poor record on carbon emissions. [71] As minister,Taylor threatened the introduction of "big stick" laws which would force energy companies to make divestments[ clarification needed ] if they did not reduce their energy prices. Analysts began projecting that wholesale energy prices would drop and that 50% of energy would come from renewable sources by 2030,though they would not credit government policy for this. [72] The legislation was later called "extreme and arbitrary"[ by whom? ] [73] and,as wholesale prices began to fall,the powers the laws provided for have never had to be used.[ citation needed ]
During the COVID-19 recession,Taylor announced the establishment of a National Oil Reserve. [74] This would involve an AUD$94m purchase of oil,reserved for Australia,but stored in the United States. The move went directly against the advice of Australian Institute of Petroleum who have argued that "the crude oil market is a global market and it is well supplied." [75] While supported by conservative Liberal Party backbenchers such as Andrew Hastie,the move has been ridiculed by the Labor leader Anthony Albanese,with the decision to locate the storage in the US as being,"rather bizarre." [76] The move was characterised as a "downpayment'' on doing "something more permanent in Australia" which as a result of closures since the 1990s has only four refineries. [77]
Beginning in 2019 a number of stories about Taylor were published. These stories stirred up some controversy about Taylor as a minister. Journalist Anne Davies said that the stories were "all uncovered by The Guardian " [32] though these stories were subsequently re-reported by other media outlets. [78] [79] [80] By September 2019,Labor opposition leaders began insisting he should "step down" [81] "should resign or be sacked" [82] and "should have stepped down a long time ago." [83] By the end of 2019 Davies described Taylor as going “from the Liberals' golden boy to a man on the edge.” [32] Sky news suggested that any talk of resignation was premature. [84] [85]
Taylor has published reports as part of the ANZ Bank Insight series. The first of these,Earth,Fire,Wind and Water –Economic Opportunity and the Australian Commodities Cycle,focused on the opportunities and challenges faced by Australia's commodity exporters in the face of the commodities boom,and was described as a "landmark report" by The Australian . [113] The second report was Greener Pastures –The Soft Commodity Opportunity for Australia and New Zealand,arguing that a soft commodity boom was taking over from the hard commodity boom. Other reports and articles include The Future for Freight,focused on reform in the freight transport sector,and "More to Nation Building than Big Bucks",critiquing the Labor Government's comparison between its National Broadband Network and the Snowy Mountain Scheme. [114]
In February 2013,Taylor authored the report "A proposal to reduce the cost of electricity to Australian electricity users" while a director at Port Jackson Partners. The report said that the Coalition could immediately drop the renewable energy target entirely and save up to A$3.2 billion by 2020 and still meet emissions reduction targets. [115]
Taylor was a member of a taskforce asked by the Victorian Government to investigate the development of a coal seam gas industry in the state. [16] Reporting in November 2013,the report found that Victoria should promote the production of additional and largely on-shore gas supply. [16] The taskforce was headed by former federal Liberal minister Peter Reith with other members representing energy companies,associated industries and lobby groups. [116]
Taylor is an amateur triathlete,he competed in the 2009 ITU Triathlon Age Group World Championship on the Gold Coast representing Australia,placing 36th. [11] [117]
He resides near Goulburn on a farm with his wife,Sydney barrister Louise Clegg and their four children. [1] [118] This residence was taken up shortly before his pre-selection for the seat of Hume in 2012.[ citation needed ]
His sister-in-law Bronnie Taylor is a Nationals member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.[ citation needed ]
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