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RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mrs Rinehart's claim doesn't stack up. Data from the Australian Taxation Office shows that the mining industry paid $42.2 billion in federal corporate taxes in 2021-22, the last financial year for which data is availabl…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Senator Birmingham's claim is fanciful. The senator argues that $3.2 billion of foreign aid spending was "left in the budget" by the Coalition, but the reality is more uncertain. Labor's alleged $3.2 billion "cut" — whi…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Chalmers's claim is misleading. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, total average weekly earnings for full-time employees increased by 3.9 per cent — or $3,738.80 — over Labor's first year in office. Ho…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Senator Nampijinpa Price's claim is oversimplified. Most indicators in the Productivity Commission's Closing the Gap data show that outcomes worsen for Indigenous Australians as remoteness increases. However, in many ca…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Albanese's claim is a fair call. Although there is no single dataset that allows for a precise comparison, the available data broadly suggests that young Indigenous men are more likely to go to prison than university…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Yes, Indigenous people were enumerated in federal censuses prior to 1967, but there is more to the story than Professor Blainey's claim suggests. The numbers of so-called "full-bloods", as they were referred to in early…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Dutton's claim is misleading. Defence budget statements show that Labor plans to spend $1,463.7 million less on the Department of Defence than what the former Coalition government planned to spend over the same three…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Chandler-Mather's claim is a fair call. The housing rents component of the latest quarterly consumer price index (CPI) data shows that over the three months to June 30, rents increased by 2.5 per cent. Indeed, this w…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Yes, Mr Albanese's reading of the polls broadly aligns with their headline results, but there's more to it. Experts spoken to by Fact Check pointed to two polls, conducted by Ipsos (in January) and YouGov (in March), wh…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Dr Ananda-Rajah is wrong. While official figures show that 122,494 people were experiencing homelessness on census night in 2021, only 7,636 of those people were "sleeping rough" as defined by experts. Additionally, mal…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Taylor's claim checks out. Core inflation is a measure of consumer prices that removes food and energy price increases from the equation. Data published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (O…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Bandt's claim is overstated. Experts told Fact Check there were two key measures of rents: "asking rents" and the rent component within the consumer price index (CPI) published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics …
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Chalmers's claim is spin. When the Coalition left office in March 2022, Labor was left with $888 billion of gross debt, or $517 billion of net debt. But while most of that debt was accrued during the Coalition's term…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: There's more to the story than Mr Dutton's claim suggests. Indeed, the gender pay gap was at 17.4 per cent when Labor left office in late 2013. The pay gap also fell steadily during most of the Coalition's time in gover…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: There's more to the story than Mr Minns's claim suggests. Experts told Fact Check there were two primary measures for comparing the relative tax burdens across jurisdictions: tax per capita and tax as a percentage of gr…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Kean's claim to have "slashed" the waitlist is exaggerated. Experts contacted by Fact Check agreed that data published annually by the Productivity Commission was the most authoritative source for assessing the socia…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Wood's claim is misleading. Although the federal tax on beer has increased, this was the result of regular, automatic indexation that occurs in line with inflation. In other words, when the cost of living increases, …
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Joyce is ill-informed. In July 2022, Mr Albanese announced proposed wording for changes to the constitution in order to establish an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Mr Albanese noted at the time that the words repres…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Andrews's claim is spin. While ambulances have been in operation in Victoria, in some form, for almost 140 years, less than two decades of comparable data is available to assess his claim. Even some of this data may …
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Davis's claim is gilding the lily. So are similar claims from Mr Guy, Mr Bach and the Liberal Party organisation. It's important to note that Victoria's net debt in June 2022 was $99.98 billion. It is not yet the $16…