“There's no subsidisation of Australia's fossil fuel industries”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Senator Canavan is drawing a long bow. There are many ways to define "subsidisation". The Q+A audience member who questioned Senator Canavan cited figures from a 2019 International Monetary Fund (IMF) working paper which found fossil fuels in Australia received US$29 billion in subsidies in 2015. That study relied on a very broad definition of "subsidy", among other things counting social and environmental costs typically not borne by fossil fuel producers such as localised pollution, greenho...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Matt Canavan (Coaltion senator) made this claim around 1 June 2020. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 29 July 2020, 58 days later. Its rating was “Drawing a long bow”.
Matt Canavan has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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