Contemporaneous to her death was a collapse in wool and beef prices due to drought, an event that brought financial stress upon the Taylor family.

He applied Nash's theories to make an analysis of English pubs, to argue that they ought be protected from being dominated by large brewing companies.

[7] After consulting, Taylor helped launch a number of agribusinesses with his brothers and other business partners, including Growth Farms.

Taylor "spent four years working on a master plan: to unify the bitterly divided industry into a single national champion.

During this tenure, Taylor was a member of the Victorian government taskforce to investigate the development of a coal seam gas industry in the state.

[16] Reporting in November 2013, the taskforce recommended that the State of Victoria should promote the production of additional and largely on-shore gas supply.

[17] After leaving Port Jackson Partners, Taylor developed several businesses with family members and fellow investors, largely connected to irrigation and agriculture.

[8] Growth Farms is an agribusiness formed by Taylor with his oldest brother, Richard in 1999s,[22] holding a non-controlling stake through Gufee until it sold its interest in early 2020.

[8] The company manages the very large Queensland properties Clyde and Kia Ora as well as the Kerry Stokes-owned Cygnet Park on Kangaroo Island.

[25] This has been seen as "a potential breach of the ministerial code of conduct", generating intense media scrutiny, particularly in The Guardian[26] and came to dominate Question Time in Parliament by late 2019.

"[27] Jam Land is a holding company is also part owned by Gufee Pty Ltd.[28] Taylor's brother and business partner, Richard, is one of the three owners.

[14] About twenty years later, he met John Howard at a Heart Foundation fundraiser where the Prime Minister strongly encouraged Taylor to run for Parliament, saying it's important "we get as many people as possible who have had more life experience.

"[7] Learning that Alby Schultz, the Member for Hume was considering retirement, in 2011[7] Taylor moved his family from Woollahra to the Southern Tablelands, on a farm outside of Goulburn, enrolling his children in local schools.

[31] One of the candidates he defeated, Rick Mandelson, later appeared to endorse Taylor, saying "more common sense (is needed) in the Parliament along with someone who's actually done some things, not just academics, lawyers and union reps."[33]

[7] Soon into his role as a backbencher, Taylor called for an overhaul to the Renewable energy target, which the Liberal Party had supported up to that point.

He's known to have written and circulated a paper outlining how many renewable energy projects, in particular wind[37] are increasing electricity costs, and proposed cheaper carbon reduction methods.

"[39] His point of view seems to have been long held – in a 2013 letter to the editor of the Crookwell Gazette,[40] Taylor stated that he became engaged in "the wind farm debate" in approximately 2003 when a plan was announced to build turbines on a ridge behind his boyhood home, referring to the Boco Rock Wind Farm approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from Nimmitabel,[41] which commenced construction in August 2013.

"[43] As a speaker at the "Wind Power Fraud Rally" Taylor both criticised windpower while accepting the need to reduce emissions:[44] I am not a climate sceptic.

"[48] Mobile phone black spots were a prominent concern for people in the Southern Tablelands and Taylor said he was "determined to fix this.

He was "instrumental in ensuring that a single digital profile would be adopted for clients of the federal agencies, rather than letting departments run off in all directions.

[citation needed] Shortly after the election, and with less than two years with his first portfolio, Taylor was brought to the front bench as Minister for Law Enforcement and Cybersecurity.

This began with the ABC querying a "rejected a billion-dollar plan to help struggling households pay their power bills" and, more seriously, that his claims that Australia would still meet its commitments to the Paris Agreement were "not what the figures show.

Taylor wrote in a letter to Turnbull that he was resigning due to his support for Peter Dutton: "I have previously relayed to you my concerns about the direction of this Government, and my views on the policies that should characterise a traditional centre-right Liberal Party.

"[68] Taylor said a 4000-megawatt portfolio of power projects underwritten by the government would "put the big energy companies on notice" if they did not achieve these price targets.

[70] Criticism for his performance continued and in October 2019, Taylor was said to be repeating misleading claims about the previous Labor government's poor record on carbon emissions.

[72] The legislation was later called "extreme and arbitrary" by the energy industry[73][74] and, as wholesale prices began to fall, the powers the laws provided for have never had to be used.

"[76] While supported by conservative Liberal Party backbenchers such as Andrew Hastie, the move was ridiculed by the Labor leader Anthony Albanese, with the decision to locate the storage in the US as being, "rather bizarre.

[116] Taylor was a member of a taskforce asked by the Victorian Government to investigate the development of a coal seam gas industry in the state.

[16] The taskforce was headed by former federal Liberal minister Peter Reith with other members representing energy companies, associated industries and lobby groups.

[117] Taylor is an amateur triathlete, he competed in the 2009 ITU Triathlon Age Group World Championship on the Gold Coast representing Australia, placing 36th.