page_title: Angus Taylor (politician)
section_title: First Ministries
hierarchical_section_title: Angus Taylor (politician) / First Ministries
caption_attribution_description: English: Peter Dutton, Minister for Home Affairs, and Angus Taylor, Minister for Law Enforcement and Cyber Security, announcing the appointment of the Karl Kent OAM as Australia's first Commonwealth Transnational Serious and Organised Crime Coordinator
context_page_description: Angus Taylor is an Australian politician serving as Energy Minister in the Morrison Government. A Liberal Member of the Australian House of Representatives, he represents the people the Southern Highlands and Southern Tablelands in the Division of Hume. Taylor's family has deep roots in the region, and "comes from a long line of innovators" — in both agriculture and energy. He spent 20 years consulting in agribusiness and resources where he earned praise for his “ability to bring intellectual integrity to complex issues.” However, on becoming a Cabinet Minister he has been heavily criticised by political opponents in both Parliament and the media for being “pig-headed” “hard-right” and “an anti-renewable ideologue.” Taylor says he is "all for renewable energy" yet is critical of wind turbine subsidies because they are "crowding out" the more cost-effective means of carbon abatement. Instead, Taylor has backed over 100 newer energy projects such as bioenergy distributed energy microgrids Snowy Hydro 2.0 and hydrogen energy.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Taylor was appointed the Minister for Law and Cybersecurity in late 2017, part of the Home Affairs portfolio of Peter Dutton.
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