Angus Taylor: the doctored documents mystery will weaken trust in politicians and journalism

The Daily Telegraph is furious at being misled. The public should be furious too. The answer is in the government’s hands

When Sydney’s lord mayor, Clover Moore, wrote to the minister for the environment to inform the federal government that her council had declared a climate emergency, she probably wasn’t expecting events to unfold in such a spectacular fashion.

The Labor party is now calling for a New South Wales police inquiry into a fraudulent document at the centre of this saga, the City of Sydney council has called in IT experts to examine its website, and the energy and emissions reduction minister, Angus Taylor – who relied on the false document – is under serious pressure to explain.

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