City of Sydney offers evidence it did not alter documents, as Angus Taylor denounces 'conspiracy theory'

Minister criticised lord mayor Clover Moore over emissions based on false figures purporting to be from council's annual report

The City of Sydney has produced evidence to back up its insistence that it never altered a document to introduce the false figures used by Angus Taylor in an attack on the lord mayor over her travel-related emissions.

The evidence places further pressure on the office of the energy minister to explain how the false figures came to be in the document he used to launch the extraordinary attack on Clover Moore last month. On Thursday Taylor labelled the affair a "conspiracy theory being perpetrated by the lord mayor" and accused her of "hollow virtue-signalling" on emissions.