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Posted: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 05:37:24 GMT

Embattled Australian politician Angus Taylor has been caught in a fresh slip-up, this time regarding a glaring and hilarious printing mistake.

The Hume federal Liberal MP and Energy Minister recently released a 2020 calendar, which was sent to households within his NSW electorate.

But they contained several awkward errors that were pointed out by ABC journalist Andrew Greene in a viral tweet over the weekend.

They include the wrong start and end dates for July.

“The member for Hume has decreed the 1st of July 2020 is now going to be on a Monday, not a Wednesday,” Mr Greene posted on the social media platform.

“Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus.”

Mr Taylor’s calendar incorrectly has the month of July starting on a Monday when it should actually start on a Wednesday.

It also has July ending on a Wednesday and August beginning three days later on a Saturday.

“I love that he’s made a new month of two days between July & August,” one Twitter user teased.

“I gather they are new public holidays for anyone with Franking Credits.”

Labor MP Brian Mitchell also weighed in, joking “the printer will get the blame” for the blunder.

News.com.au contacted Mr Taylor for comment.

ANGUS TAYLOR’S YEAR OF SCANDALS

The calendar blunder follows a string of high-profile scandals involving Mr Taylor in recent months.

In April, it emerged that the Government had paid $80 million in 2017 to buy back water from a Cayman Island-based subsidiary of a company Mr Taylor had helped set up.

While Mr Taylor claimed he was not involved with the company at the time, it was nevertheless dubbed “Watergate” and described as a “scandal” by former Labor leader Bill Shorten.

Later that month, Mr Taylor was caught in an embarrassing Facebook fail after social media users noticed his own official Facebook page had commented on its own post about the creation of new carparks, writing the now-infamous words: “Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus.”

Soon after, Mr Taylor was embroiled in the “grassgate” scandal, which referred to an investigation into the alleged illegal clearing of grasslands by another company he was also involved with.

Then, Mr Taylor accused Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore of racking up a $15 million travel bill during 2017-18, based on a council’s annual report.

However, critics claimed the document had been doctored, as the report published on the council’s website showed just $4206.32 had been spent on domestic travel and $1,727.77 on international travel for councillors.

Then, in December, renowned feminist and author Naomi Wolf accused Mr Taylor of lying about her in an anecdote he shared during his maiden House of Representatives speech back in 2013.

During the speech, Mr Taylor touched on the issue of political correctness, which he highlighted with a story from his time as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.

“I first encountered political correctness as a student at Oxford,” Mr Taylor said.

“It was 1991 and a young Naomi Wolf lived a couple of doors down the corridor. Several graduate students, mostly from the northeast of the US, decided we should abandon the Christmas tree in the common room because some people might be offended.

“I was astounded. My friends from Oklahoma, Alaska and Oregon explained this new kind of moral vanity that was taking hold in America.

“A few of us pushed back hard. In the end we won because we were mainstream.”

But Dr Wolf recently learned of Mr Taylor’s speech for the first time and called his office demanding an explanation after claiming she wasn’t at Oxford in 1991 and had never waged a war on Christmas.

She also rebutted his claims in a viral tweet.

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