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RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Albanese's claim is correct. The previous record was 8 women in cabinet, or 34.8 per cent of cabinet positions, achieved during the final term of Scott Morrison's Coalition government. The first ministry of the Alban…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Senator Gallagher's claim is wrong. On two key economic indicators, debt and deficit, previous incoming governments have inherited worse "budget books". The only fair way to make historical comparisons is to take into a…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Morrison is cherrypicking. Experts told Fact Check there were indeed similarities between the coercive powers of a royal commission and the government's proposed model for a federal anti-corruption commission. For ex…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Bandt's claim is overblown. A document provided by his office to Fact Check attributed the vast majority of this figure to the cost of the government's fuel tax credits scheme. There is some debate as to whether the …
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Sukkar's claim is overstated. While loans to first home buyers have not reached a 15-year high, on a number of measures, the past two years have seen such loans at a higher level than recorded since early 2010. It's …
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Frydenberg's claim is misleading. The first reason is that the figures the Treasurer has quoted are from different years. Australia is sourced to 2020, New Zealand and Canada to 2019 and the OECD to 2018. This incons…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Ms Haines's claim is exaggerated. The only readily accessible information on gag motions in parliament is available by calendar year, which is an imperfect measure for Ms Haines's claim as it doesn't line up neatly with…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Senator Wong's claim is not the full story. Australian foreign aid to Solomon Islands was on average almost 35 per cent lower per year under the Coalition compared with the previous Labor government, in inflation-adjust…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Albanese is wrong. Historical data shows that debt and deficit, when measured against GDP, were higher in the years following the world wars when compared with current levels. It is this measure economists use to mak…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Chalmers's claim is correct. Figures on tax, debt and spending as a proportion of GDP have been higher on average under the Coalition government since 2013 than under the last Labor government. However, it's importan…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr O'Connor's claim is a fair call. Fact Check extracted defence spending figures from the Defence Portfolio Estimates Statements and Defence Annual Reports. The figures showed the Howard government spent an annual aver…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Morrison's claim is misleading. Most problematic with Mr Morrison's claim is the use of a 2020 figure for Australia ("around 20 per cent"). Mr Morrison's figure accords with data found in Australia's National Greenho…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Ms Plibersek's claim is overreach. There are no religious vilification laws at either a state or federal level which would protect someone in NSW from vilification as described by Ms Plibersek, but experts told Fact Che…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Frydenberg's claim is oversimplified. It is clear from a variety of academic studies that Omicron causes less severe disease than Delta. What is less clear is the magnitude of this reduced severity and the contributi…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Morrison's claim is not the full story. The Foreign Investment Review Board determined in 2015 that it had no authority to examine the Darwin port deal — because it fell under exemption provisions of the Foreign Acqu…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Marles's claim is spin. Although the combined number of apprentices and trainees fell by roughly 70,000 under the Coalition, that total masks two very different stories. The number of trainees has fallen by just unde…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Palmer's claim is nonsense. The original United Australia Party was a political party established in 1931 and formally disbanded in 1945. Experts told Fact Check that many members then transferred to the Liberal Part…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Senator Ruston's claim is overblown. While the new body would have some powers comparable to those of a royal commission, it cannot be said that its overall powers would be "well in excess". The Royal Commissions Act is…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Morrison is wrong. At the time of Mr Morrison's claim on January 28, Senator Colbeck had appeared at only two of 55 public hearings of the Senate Select Committee on COVID-19.
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Taylor is wrong. When the carbon tax went into place, manufacturing employed 947,500 people. By the time of its repeal two years later, that number had shrunk by 32,300 (3.4 per cent), with one in 29 workers affected…