“Australian government declared George Soros as a global terrorist”
Logically Facts rated this: False
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“Australian cricketer Travis Head posted on X saying, “All Eyes on Vaishno Devi Attack.”
Logically Facts rated this: Fake
“Federal taxation revenue from our mining companies alone for the last financial year more than covers the cost of salaries of all of Australia's police, teachers and nurses.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Doesn't stack up
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mrs Rinehart's claim doesn't stack up. Data from the Australian Taxation Office shows that the mining industry paid $42.2 billion in federal corporate taxes in 2021-22, the last financial year for which data is availabl…
“Australian state banned phrase 'free Palestine, from the river to the sea”
Logically Facts rated this: False
“Labor cut $3.2 billion from the foreign aid budget, which was later put back in”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Fanciful
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Senator Birmingham's claim is fanciful. The senator argues that $3.2 billion of foreign aid spending was "left in the budget" by the Coalition, but the reality is more uncertain. Labor's alleged $3.2 billion "cut" — whi…
“Australian batsman Travis Head dedicated the World Cup victory to Palestine.”
Logically Facts rated this: False
“Australian cricketer Glenn Maxwell was seen touching Sachin Tendulkar's feet after their win against Afghanistan.”
Logically Facts rated this: Fake
“An average full-time worker was $3,700 better off in the first year of the Albanese government.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Misleading
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Chalmers's claim is misleading. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, total average weekly earnings for full-time employees increased by 3.9 per cent — or $3,738.80 — over Labor's first year in office. Ho…
“The gap [in outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people] is more about place than race.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Oversimplified
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Senator Nampijinpa Price's claim is oversimplified. Most indicators in the Productivity Commission's Closing the Gap data show that outcomes worsen for Indigenous Australians as remoteness increases. However, in many ca…
“We know that there's a greater chance of an Indigenous young male going to jail than university.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Fair call
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Albanese's claim is a fair call. Although there is no single dataset that allows for a precise comparison, the available data broadly suggests that young Indigenous men are more likely to go to prison than university…
“[Indigenous people] had been counted in every federal census since 1901”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Yes, but more to it
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Yes, Indigenous people were enumerated in federal censuses prior to 1967, but there is more to the story than Professor Blainey's claim suggests. The numbers of so-called "full-bloods", as they were referred to in early…
“In the latest budget the government cut $1.5 billion from defence.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Misleading
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Dutton's claim is misleading. Defence budget statements show that Labor plans to spend $1,463.7 million less on the Department of Defence than what the former Coalition government planned to spend over the same three…
“[Rents] are going up at the fastest rate in 35 years.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Fair call
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Chandler-Mather's claim is a fair call. The housing rents component of the latest quarterly consumer price index (CPI) data shows that over the three months to June 30, rents increased by 2.5 per cent. Indeed, this w…
“All the surveys show that somewhere between 80 and 90 per cent of Indigenous Australians want [the Voice to Parliament]”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Yes, but more to it
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Yes, Mr Albanese's reading of the polls broadly aligns with their headline results, but there's more to it. Experts spoken to by Fact Check pointed to two polls, conducted by Ipsos (in January) and YouGov (in March), wh…
“We have, tonight, 122,000 people sleeping rough. Eighty per cent of those are women. Where women go, children follow. One in seven of those are 12 years or less; they are children, they are babies.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Wrong
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Dr Ananda-Rajah is wrong. While official figures show that 122,494 people were experiencing homelessness on census night in 2021, only 7,636 of those people were "sleeping rough" as defined by experts. Additionally, mal…
“We've got the worst inflation — core inflation — in the G7.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Checks out
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Taylor's claim checks out. Core inflation is a measure of consumer prices that removes food and energy price increases from the equation. Data published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (O…
“Rents are rising six times faster than wages.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Overstated
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Bandt's claim is overstated. Experts told Fact Check there were two key measures of rents: "asking rents" and the rent component within the consumer price index (CPI) published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics …
“The Coalition left Labor a trillion dollars of debt and Labor was only responsible for "a tiny fraction".”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Spin
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Chalmers's claim is spin. When the Coalition left office in March 2022, Labor was left with $888 billion of gross debt, or $517 billion of net debt. But while most of that debt was accrued during the Coalition's term…
“Under Labor, the gender pay gap was at 17.4 per cent and reduced to 13.8 per cent on our watch.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: More to the story
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: There's more to the story than Mr Dutton's claim suggests. Indeed, the gender pay gap was at 17.4 per cent when Labor left office in late 2013. The pay gap also fell steadily during most of the Coalition's time in gover…
“NSW is the highest taxing state in the country”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: More to the story
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: There's more to the story than Mr Minns's claim suggests. Experts told Fact Check there were two primary measures for comparing the relative tax burdens across jurisdictions: tax per capita and tax as a percentage of gr…