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Checked by RMIT ABC Fact Check6 Mar 2019AustraliaEconomy and jobs
Dominic Perrottet, NSW Treasurer

“It was only 10 years ago, under Labor, the unemployment rate was 5.7 per cent. Today, 3.9 per cent.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Cherrypicking

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Perrottet's claim amounts to cherrypicking. His figures are accurate, but they do not fairly represent Labor's record on jobs. Experts told Fact Check that comparing unemployment rates for two individual months 10 ye…

Checked by RMIT ABC Fact Check1 Mar 2019AustraliaImmigration
David Coleman, Minister for Immigration

“The medevac legislation doesn't require asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru to be sick in order to be transferred to Australia.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Spin

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Coleman's claim is spin. The bill governs the transfer of people from offshore processing countries in order to receive medical or psychiatric "treatment or assessment". Experts told Fact Check that it could be possi…

Checked by RMIT ABC Fact Check28 Feb 2019AustraliaImmigration
Andrew Wilkie, Independent federal MP

“A series of Australian governments that are guilty of crimes against humanity for forcibly transferring asylum seekers to a third country and detaining them indefinitely without trial.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Untested

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Wilkie's claim is an allegation of criminal conduct that is untested in a court of law. A number of communiques calling for Australian government officials to be investigated for crimes against humanity, as defined b…

Checked by RMIT ABC Fact Check22 Feb 2019Australia
Chris Bowen, Shadow Treasurer

“Home ownership rates for young people aged 25-34 have spiralled downwards in recent years from 60 per cent to 48 per cent”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: In the ballpark

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Bowen's claim is in the ballpark. What counts as "recent" is debatable, but given the typical pace of change in the housing market, Fact Check has assessed the last ten years of ownership rates. None of these rates m…

Checked by RMIT ABC Fact Check11 Feb 2019AustraliaHealth
Peter Dutton, Minister for Home Affairs

“Labor's proposal is to dismantle offshore detention [and will] essentially give the ability for two doctors — as has been pointed out, doctors including Dr Brown, Bob Brown, and Dr Richard Di Natale — potentially can provide the advice.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Drawing a long bow

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Dutton is drawing a long bow. According to the proposals, in order to be able to advise on the transfer of refugees to Australia for medical treatment, a doctor would first need to be registered — neither Mr Brown no…

Checked by RMIT ABC Fact Check7 Feb 2019AustraliaPolitics and government
Tanya Plibersek, Deputy Opposition Leader

“Labor has more than double the number of women the Liberals have in the Parliament and about twice the number of women on our front bench ...”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Checks out

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Yes, Ms Plibersek's claim checks out, but there's more to it. There are more than twice the number of Labor women in Parliament than there are Liberal women, in both raw numbers (44 vs 19) and proportional terms (46.3 p…

Checked by RMIT ABC Fact Check12 Dec 2018Australia
Lidia Thorpe, Former Greens member for the seat Victorian state seat of Northcote

“It has been nearly a decade since Kevin Rudd's apology, yet child removal rates have increased by 400 per cent.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Yes, but more to it

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Ms Thorpe's claim doesn't check out. Data is not collected on the rate of all child removals. Given the lack of data, experts told Fact Check that the rate of admissions to out-of-home care collected by the Australian I…

Checked by RMIT ABC Fact Check11 Dec 2018AustraliaEconomy and jobs
Andrew Leigh, Shadow assistant treasurer

“We have net debt more than doubling since the Liberals came to office. It's just hit a record high, some $350 billion.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Yes, but more to it

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Yes, Dr Leigh's claim is correct, but there's more to it. The Government's monthly financial statements show net debt has doubled over the Coalition's two terms in government — from $174.6 billion in September 2013, whe…