“[The] real minimum wage has gone up under us every year. Under the Labor Party, it actually went backwards.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Frydenberg's claim is a fair call. The minimum wage, as set by the Fair Work Commission, has increased at a faster rate than both inflation and the average wage on an annual basis since 2014-15, the first full financial year after the Coalition came to power. In other words, the real minimum wage has grown every year. This is consistent with Mr Frydenberg's claim. However, his comment about Labor is not so clear-cut. It can be taken as referring to Labor's entire term in office, or to any ...
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In short
Josh Frydenberg (Treasurer) made this claim around 8 April 2019. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 2 May 2019, 24 days later. Its rating was “Fair call”.
Josh Frydenberg has 9 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
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