“Queensland has had the worst unemployment record in Australia for the last four years thanks to Labor.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Ms Frecklington is wrong. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that Queensland did not have the highest unemployment rate in the nation across the four years leading up to the outbreak of COVID-19, whether measured as an average of monthly figures for calendar years or financial years. Likewise, using a rolling monthly average measure to calculate the unemployment rate for all 12-month periods to March 2020 does not show Queensland experiencing Australia's highest unemployment ...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Deb Frecklington (Queensland Opposition Leader) made this claim around 6 October 2020. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 28 October 2020, 22 days later. Its rating was “Wrong”.
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.