“Labor has more than double the number of women the Liberals have in the Parliament and about twice the number of women on our front bench ...”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Yes, Ms Plibersek's claim checks out, but there's more to it. There are more than twice the number of Labor women in Parliament than there are Liberal women, in both raw numbers (44 vs 19) and proportional terms (46.3 per cent vs 22.9 per cent). But calculating the frontbench is more complicated. Firstly, the Government's frontbench contains members from both the Liberals and Nationals (and the Liberals do not control who the Nationals select). As Ms Plibersek only referenced the Liberals in ...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tanya Plibersek (Deputy Opposition Leader) made this claim around 2 January 2019. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 7 February 2019, 36 days later. Its rating was “Checks out”.
Tanya Plibersek has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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