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Interview with Peta Credlin, Sky News
27 November 2018
PETA CREDLIN: Joining me tonight to pull apart some of Labor's policy detail and discuss his Government's plans to bring down power prices is the Minister for Energy Angus Taylor. Angus, great to have you on the show - great to have you in person.
ANGUS TAYLOR: Thanks for having me.
PETA CREDLIN: Difficult question to start off with - do Liberal Party family regard the party now as full of homophobic, women hating, climate change deniers?
Doorstop Goulburn, NSW
24 November 2018
ANGUS TAYLOR: Welcome to Goulburn. A great city - Australia's first inland city that relies on affordable, reliable electricity and energy to be competitive, to be prosperous, and to employ the many people who are employed in this great region. It relies on affordable, reliable electricity for its agriculture, transport being a transport hub here on the Hume Highway, and also for agriculture and irrigation and the many important uses of energy in agriculture.
Interview with Ben Fordham, 2GB
23 November 2018
BEN FORDHAM: Well, Labor is facing a backlash against its energy policy, with businesses questioning how they will keep the lights on. Bill Shorten has unveiled his $215 million plan to install 100,000 battery storage systems in Australian homes - or on the side of Australian homes with solar on the roof. And he also wants to increase emissions reduction targets by - well, he wants to get it to 45 per cent by 2030. The policy has been slammed by the nation's largest electricity user; that's Tomago Aluminium Smelter. The boss has declared batteries are not the solution.
Interview with Nicole Chvastek ABC Ballarat Statewide Drive
22 November 2018
NICOLE CHVASTEK: And the federal Minister for Energy is with us right now. Angus Taylor, a very good afternoon to you and thank you so much for staying on the line there. I know you've been waiting for some time.
ANGUS TAYLOR: Thanks for having me.
NICOLE CHVASTEK: We just heard Pat Conroy there talking about how there could be a NEG debated and perhaps even agreed on before Christmas if the Coalition debates it. Would the Coalition consider the NEG again?
Interview with David Speers, Sky News
22 November 2018
DAVID SPEERS: Yes, as I said this is clever politics from Labor to adopt what is the government's National Energy Guarantee, got so many statements on the record from Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg arguing why this National Energy Guarantee, why it's the only way to get prices down, prices will go up if we don't have it and so on. Plenty of business groups all backed it as well.
Interview with Will Goodings and David Penberthy 5AA Adelaide
22 November 2018
WILL GOODINGS: We also have the federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor on the line and we're going to have a quick chat with him now - not so much about the unique set of circumstances that we're confronted with last night but the summer ahead that is facing South Australia. Minister, good morning and thanks for your time. Would you be able to bring our listeners up to speed with what your understanding is from AEMO as to how we are going to be able to sort of fireproof South Australia from major outages over the coming few months?
Interview with Alan Jones, 2GB
22 November 2018
ALAN JONES: Angus Taylor is the Federal Minister for Energy and whatever else he might know or not know, it's generally conceded - this is not my pumping up Angus Taylor's tyres - it's generally conceded that this bloke has most probably forgotten more before he came into the parliament about energy policy and renewable energy than everybody in the parliament knows. And as I've said early today, he's just got to be laughing - you can't take this stuff serious. And Angus Taylor, good morning to you. Thank you for your time but I'm sorry I can't take this stuff seriously.
Doorstop with Matt Howell, CEO of Tomago Aluminium
22 November 2018
ANGUS TAYLOR: I'm delighted to be here at Tomago Aluminium Smelter, near Newcastle with Matt Howell, the CEO of Tomago Aluminium. This facility, this business, like so many around Australia, depends for its existence, for its success, for its competitiveness on affordable, reliable power. I've been hearing this morning about how crucial it is that we continue to see downward pressure on electricity prices that's necessary to keep businesses like this sustainable and employing so many people here in Australia.
Doorstop with Audrey Zibelman, AEMO press conference, Sydney
21 November 2018
JOURNALIST:...fire away with some questions and just ask you about, you know, ahead of the summer compared to last summer et cetera. Obviously, you put your demand response in place and that sort of thing, so are you all set to go? Are you feeling relaxed about the coming summer?
Interview with Kieran Gilbert and Laura Jayes Sky News First Edition
21 November 2018
LAURA JAYES: Tomorrow, Labor leader Bill Shorten will unveil more details of energy policy going into the election, so there will be a sharper focus if that is at all possible. So, let's bring in the Energy Minister Angus Taylor. Angus Taylor, thank you for your time. If Labor does adopt the National Energy Guarantee framework, what will your position be? Can you credibly criticise it, given your Government was the architect of it?