“Australia's population growth mostly the result of migration, and that is underpinning the federal budget”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Senator Hanson's claim is close to the mark. Official figures put Australia's population at the end of 2018 at more than 25 million people. This was an increase, as Senator Hanson points out, of more than 400,000 year on year, with net overseas migration (NOM) accounting for 61.4 per cent of the growth, as reported by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The Government, which has announced a plan to "freeze immigration" for this term and promote regional migration to allow infrastructure to k...
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In short
Pauline Hanson (One Nation leader) made this claim around 20 June 2019. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 31 July 2019, 41 days later. Its rating was “Close to the mark”.
Pauline Hanson has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 0 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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