“It is true that posthumously promoting Monash to field marshal in this centenary year would be a break with normal protocol." "But there are powerful precedents for such a decision.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Shorten's claim doesn't check out. In support of his argument, Mr Shorten cited three examples of men whose promotions, he claimed, had broken with protocol: Sir Thomas Blamey, Prince Philip, and General George Washington. Fact Check consulted two Australian military historians and a British expert in the history of field marshals, all of whom said there was no precedent for posthumous promotion to field marshal in Australia or Britain. The Australian experts also said the precedents cited...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Bill Shorten (Opposition Leader) made this claim around 18 April 2018. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 25 April 2018, 7 days later. Its rating was “Yes, but more to it”.
Bill Shorten has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
Where the claim appeared
- theage.com.auhttps://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/bill-shorten-giving-john-monash-the-ultimate-h…
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