“[Sydney's lockdown measures] are the harshest measures any place in Australia has ever faced.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Ms Berejiklian's claim is wrong. While some of Sydney's rules were harsher than those tried elsewhere, many were less strict. Fact Check has assessed Ms Berejiklian's claim against the toughest rules in NSW, which at the time applied to eight Sydney council areas. (The list of council areas has since been expanded and further restrictions announced.) In these areas, there was no nightly curfew like that imposed in Victoria. Nor was there a daily time limit on exercise, as was the case in Sout...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Gladys Berejiklian (NSW Premier) made this claim around 29 July 2021. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 25 August 2021, 27 days later. Its rating was “Wrong”.
Gladys Berejiklian has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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