“An average full-time worker was $3,700 better off in the first year of the Albanese government.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
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. However, experts pointed out this figure ignored the impact of inflation which outstripped the growth in earnings by 6 percentage points over the year to June 30 as measured by the consumer price index (CPI). In real terms, full-time total average weekly earnings fell by 2 per ce...
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In short
Jim Chalmers (Treasurer) made this claim around 11 September 2023. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 20 October 2023, 39 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
Jim Chalmers has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 4 true.
Where the claim appeared
- parlinfo.aph.gov.auhttps://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/chamber/hansardr/27166/toc_pdf/House%20of%2…
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