“NSW has the highest rate of COVID-19 testing in the world”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Overblown
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“[The Government has] always been very, very careful to prioritise Australians and Australian jobs [through the migration program”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Not the full story
“On the 2 April 2020, Australia's Minister for Health, Greg Hunt announced hydroxychloroquine would be made available if doctors wish to use it to treat COVID-19 patients who are in Australian hospitals. Since that time, Australia's death rate from COVID-19 has been the lowest in the world and the curve has flattened.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Baseless
“Australia "[has] the most secure food security in the world".”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: In the ballpark
“We know from past experience that when someone is unemployed for over a year, their chances of securing paid work typically fall by 40 per cent.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Fair call
“New Zealand decided to go a lot further [on COVID-19 restrictions], but I'd note that the outcomes we are getting are actually on a per capita basis actually better than what is happening in New Zealand.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Fair call
“Australia had more rainfall this century, compared to the first 20 years of the last century and the data shows there is no nationwide drying trend”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Flawed
“Are there more full-time baristas than coal industry workers in Australia?”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Incorrect
“So, in particular, if you happen to have darker skin, that facial recognition technology is much, much less accurate.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Correct
“The 480 million estimate was made a couple of weeks ago, and the fires have now burnt over a large area of further country. That means over 800 million mammals, birds and reptiles have been affected by the fires. Australia-wide, it's probably over a billion”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Conservative estimate
“In NSW, the last decade has seen more than twice the amount of prescribed burning compared to the decade before and in all mapped records of prescribed burning across NSW national parks it's the highest decade.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Fair call
“[The] government's budget papers show that Fire and Rescue NSW and the Rural Fire Service combined are facing a $40 million budget cut.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Doesn't stack up
“The CFMMEU is the most unlawful organisation in the history of Australia's industrial laws”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Doesn't check out
“Australia is responsible for more than 5 per cent of the world's emissions if fossil fuel exports are included”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Overstated
“Queensland fire danger indices were historically high for early September”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Close to the mark
“Australia's carbon emissions are the lowest they've ever been”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Incorrect
“The Snowy Mountains scheme was the achievement of only one party”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Exaggerated
“The Australian constitution is the only constitution of a first world nation with a colonial history that does not recognise its first people.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Checks out
“The National Party represents the poorest seats”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Overreach
“The rules of confession are not written in scripture”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Fair call