On Wednesday, @GuardianAus revealed the Daily Telegraph attacked Sydney lord mayor's climate record based on doctored documents provided by Angus Taylor’s office. The minister has called the story a “conspiracy theory”. Here's how we checked those documents: A THREAD👇 There are competing versions of how the false figures came to be in the document used by Angus Taylor. Emails between the council and the Daily Telegraph show that Taylor’s office said it downloaded its erroneous document from the council’s website on 6 September, 2019.

For those following – @corybernardi @Senator_Patrick @PaulineHansonOz – here's a thread with key stories from the @GuardianAus investigation of Angus Taylor, Josh Frydenberg & endangered grasslands, as revealed by @_LisaMCox & @annefdavies. This is #grassgate: THREAD👇 We first revealed the meeting between Taylor, Frydenberg's office and environment officials took place at the same time a company Taylor part-owns was under investigation for poisoning the grasslands he sought a briefing about theguardian.com/australia-news… #grassgate

Barnaby Joyce and #Watergate: the water buybacks scandal explained by @MaryanneSlatte1, a senior water researcher at @TheAusInstitute. MEGA THREAD.

In no time you'll know your overland flows from your water buybacks and everything in between. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… Q: What has happened?
A: Joyce is under fire because of an $80m deal he approved as water minister in 2017. The company that received the payment, Eastern Australia Agriculture (EAA), booked a $52m profit on the deal, much of which appears to have been transferred ...