“All the surveys show that somewhere between 80 and 90 per cent of Indigenous Australians want [the Voice to Parliament]”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
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), which found support for the Voice among First Nations Australians was 80 per cent (margin of error +/- 7.3 per cent) and 83 per cent (+/- 2.3 per cent) respectively. But Mr Albanese's claim omits several caveats which experts say highlight the uncertainty around these figures. Ch...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Anthony Albanese (Prime Minister) made this claim around 22 June 2023. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 2 August 2023, 41 days later. Its rating was “Yes, but more to it”.
Anthony Albanese has 11 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 5 true.
Where the claim appeared
- pm.gov.auhttps://www.pm.gov.au/media/radio-interview-wsfm-jonesy-amanda-0
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFbTGt59-bA
- pm.gov.auhttps://www.pm.gov.au/media/television-interview-sky-sunday-agenda-1
- pm.gov.auhttps://www.pm.gov.au/media/radio-interview-abc-coffs-coast
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