“Economic growth hasn't been this slow for 10 years since the global financial crisis”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Dr Chalmers has made a fair call. There are several ways to measure economic growth. Dr Chalmers did not specify which measure he was referring to. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' closely-watched chain volume measure of gross domestic product, published in the quarterly National Accounts, shows the Australian economy expanded 0.26 per cent in the March quarter, in trend terms. That produced an annual growth rate of 1.74 per cent. In trend terms, it was the slowest quarterly growth since ...
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In short
Jim Chalmers (Shadow treasurer) made this claim around 2 July 2019. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 1 August 2019, 30 days later. Its rating was “Fair call”.
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.
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