“We know that there's a greater chance of an Indigenous young male going to jail than university.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Albanese's claim is a fair call. Although there is no single dataset that allows for a precise comparison, the available data broadly suggests that young Indigenous men are more likely to go to prison than university. The latest census found that 4.9 per cent of Indigenous men aged 18-34 were enrolled at university in 2021, while 6.3 per cent were in prison on census night. The census did not collect data on whether Indigenous men had ever been to jail, but revealed that 4.8 per cent of th...
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In short
Anthony Albanese (Prime Minister) made this claim around 3 October 2023. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 5 October 2023, 2 days later. Its rating was “Fair call”.
Anthony Albanese has 11 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 5 true.
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