Labor questions Angus Taylor's explanation to parliament over false figures

Anthony Albanese says scandal over doctored document shows minister is distracted from his job of reducing emissions

The opposition leader, Anthony Albanese, has queried whether the energy minister, Angus Taylor, has misled parliament in his answers about an altered document that was used to attack the climate record of Sydney's lord mayor, Clover Moore.

Taylor has been under sustained pressure to explain how an altered page of the City of Sydney's annual report was sent by his office to the Daily Telegraph, which wrote a critical story effectively accusing the lord mayor of being a hypocrite on climate change.