“For the Labor Party, they got the lowest primary vote, I think, since 1910.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Joyce's claim is in the ballpark. Labor primary vote of 32.6 per cent was low by historic standards but his selection of 1910 is inexact. Labor's primary vote in 2022 is indeed worse than any recorded by the Labor prime ministers Mr Joyce mentioned. But going back further in history is complicated by a split in the Labor Party during the 1930s which resulted in the entire NSW branch being expelled. The splinter group, led by two-time NSW premier Jack Lang, ran candidates against the federa...
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In short
Barnaby Joyce (Former deputy prime minister) made this claim around 23 May 2022. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 5 July 2022, 43 days later. Its rating was “In the ballpark”.
Barnaby Joyce has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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