“It was only 10 years ago, under Labor, the unemployment rate was 5.7 per cent. Today, 3.9 per cent.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Perrottet's claim amounts to cherrypicking. His figures are accurate, but they do not fairly represent Labor's record on jobs. Experts told Fact Check that comparing unemployment rates for two individual months 10 years apart was meaningless, and suggested longer-term averages would provide a better, albeit crude, yardstick. Averaged over two terms per party, the jobless rate under the most recent Labor and Coalition governments was the same, at 5.2 per cent. Also, in referring to Labor's ...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Dominic Perrottet (NSW Treasurer) made this claim around 21 February 2019. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 6 March 2019, 13 days later. Its rating was “Cherrypicking”.
Where the claim appeared
- theaustralian.com.auhttps://www.theaustralian.com.au/video/id-5348771529001-6005044111001/perrottet-draws-bat…
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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.