“There are 70,000 fewer apprentices and trainees today then there was in 2013.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Marles's claim is spin. Although the combined number of apprentices and trainees fell by roughly 70,000 under the Coalition, that total masks two very different stories. The number of trainees has fallen by just under 73,000 since the Coalition was elected. Meanwhile, the number of trade apprentices has risen by 1,500. Importantly, the fall in trainees began before the Coalition came to power. This followed changes introduced in 2012 by the then Labor government to address well documented ...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Richard Marles (Deputy Labor leader) made this claim around 1 February 2022. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 2 March 2022, 29 days later. Its rating was “Spin”.
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