“The Government cut funding by $1.2 billion from aged care in Scott Morrison's first budget as treasurer”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Shorten's claim is misleading. In Mr Morrison's first year as federal treasurer — that is, 2016-17 — total Commonwealth funding for aged care (excluding the pension and other forms of income support for seniors, but including a range of other programs) was $17.4 billion. That represented an increase of more than $1 billion over the previous year. The increase came despite a decision to pare $1.2 billion of "efficiencies" over four years, largely by reducing the subsidies paid to aged care ...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Bill Shorten (Opposition Leader) made this claim around 17 September 2019. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 16 October 2018. Its rating was “Misleading”.
Bill Shorten has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
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.