Taylor rejects claim he gave rural firefighters a ‘kick in the guts’ with bushfire comments
Angus Taylor claimed bureaucrats let catastrophic 2003 fires rip. That narrative has been rejected by the man who led the containment effort, who also demanded an apology.
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