“Under Scott Morrison real wages have fallen 2.1 per cent in 12 months, the fastest drop in wages in 20 years.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Labor's claim is not the full story. Real wages — that is, wages adjusted for inflation — were 2.1 per cent lower in the June quarter of 2021 compared to the June quarter of 2020, when calculated using headline figures for the consumer price index and the wage price index, both published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). This was indeed the sharpest annual fall recorded since June 2001, when real wages plunged 2.3 per cent following the introduction of the GST. However, the steep ...
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In short
The Labor Party made this claim around 22 August 2021. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 7 September 2021, 16 days later. Its rating was “Not the full story”.
Where the claim appeared
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