“We're one of the most generous resettlement countries in the world for humanitarian places, always, every single year. We have 13,700. That's about third in the world every year, third-highest in the world.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Hawke’s claim is cherrypicking. Australia "resettles" more refugees than most, but this only accounts for people transferred to Australia from other asylum countries, including refugees referred by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Fewer than one per cent of the world's refugees are resettled each year, or roughly 108,000 of the 20 million refugees under the UNHCR's mandate in 2019. Other countries take in far greater numbers of refugees arriving on their doorstep....
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Alex Hawke (Minister for Immigration) made this claim around 19 August 2021. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 14 September 2021, 26 days later. Its rating was “Cherrypicking”.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI11-Cbkezk
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