“There was no authority for the federal government to reject, approve anything in relation to the leasing of [the Port of Darwin].”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Morrison's claim is not the full story. The Foreign Investment Review Board determined in 2015 that it had no authority to examine the Darwin port deal — because it fell under exemption provisions of the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975 at that time. However, there was ample opportunity for the Department of Defence and security agencies to raise concerns. One expert told Fact Check that if defence and other agencies had expressed serious concerns about a potential risk to natio...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Scott Morrison (Prime Minister) made this claim around 18 February 2022. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 8 March 2022, 18 days later. Its rating was “Not the full story”.
Scott Morrison has 18 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 11 misleading or mixed and 3 true.
Where the claim appeared
- pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.auhttps://pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au/release/transcript-43801
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