“The United Australia Party under Clive Palmer claims three former prime ministers as its own”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Palmer's claim is nonsense. The original United Australia Party was a political party established in 1931 and formally disbanded in 1945. Experts told Fact Check that many members then transferred to the Liberal Party and historical accounts show assets also moved across. Mr Lyons and Sir Robert (who was Mr Menzies at the time) were indeed prime ministers as leaders of the original UAP. Mr Hughes was also at one stage leader of the UAP, however, he served as prime minister under earlier Au...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Clive Palmer (United Australia Party chairman) made this claim around 20 December 2021. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 22 February 2022, 64 days later. Its rating was “Nonsense”.
Clive Palmer has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- unitedaustraliaparty.org.auhttps://www.unitedaustraliaparty.org.au/united-australia-party-celebrates-90th-anniversar…
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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.