“We have, tonight, 122,000 people sleeping rough. Eighty per cent of those are women. Where women go, children follow. One in seven of those are 12 years or less; they are children, they are babies.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Dr Ananda-Rajah is wrong. While official figures show that 122,494 people were experiencing homelessness on census night in 2021, only 7,636 of those people were "sleeping rough" as defined by experts. Additionally, males make up the majority of both the total count of people experiencing homelessness (57 per cent) and those sleeping rough (66 per cent). There were 208 children aged under 12 sleeping rough on census night (3 per cent). However, children did indeed make up one in seven people ...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Michelle Ananda-Rajah (Labor MP) made this claim around 22 May 2023. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 13 June 2023, 22 days later. Its rating was “Wrong”.
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