“There was no slavery in Australia when NSW was founded as a colony”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Morrison's claim checks out. His claim goes to the question of whether there was slavery when NSW was founded as a colony. As harsh as the new settlement undoubtedly was, the preconditions for slavery — including the treatment of individuals as property — were not met, at least not in the early years of NSW. Arthur Phillip, the first governor of the new colony, declared that among the first laws he would like enacted was that there could be no slavery and no slaves. As experts consulted by...
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In short
Scott Morrison (Prime Minister) made this claim around 11 June 2020. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 2 July 2020, 21 days later. Its rating was “Checks out”.
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.
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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.