“It has been nearly a decade since Kevin Rudd's apology, yet child removal rates have increased by 400 per cent.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Ms Thorpe's claim doesn't check out. Data is not collected on the rate of all child removals. Given the lack of data, experts told Fact Check that the rate of admissions to out-of-home care collected by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare was a proxy for child removal rates. However, that data is only available by Indigenous status for the six years from 2011-12 to 2016-17, so it doesn't cover the decade mentioned by Ms Thorpe. For those six years, there was a 5.4 per cent increase...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Lidia Thorpe (Former Greens member for the seat Victorian state seat of Northcote) made this claim around 13 November 2018. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 12 December 2018, 29 days later. Its rating was “Yes, but more to it”.
Where the claim appeared
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This check was done by RMIT ABC Fact Check, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.