Greens leader. 5 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2019 to 2023. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Bandt's claim is overstated. Experts told Fact Check there were two key measures of rents: "asking rents" and the rent component within the consumer price index (CPI) published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics …
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Bandt's claim is overblown. A document provided by his office to Fact Check attributed the vast majority of this figure to the cost of the government's fuel tax credits scheme. There is some debate as to whether the …
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Bandt's claim is overreach. While his claim accords with the average daily increase in the median house price in Sydney, the situation in the rest of the country is different. For the eight out of 10 Australians who …
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Bandt is correct in saying that a payment of $325 is below the poverty line. Having said that, comparing a one-off payment with the poverty line is problematic because it fails to consider the total income of the per…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Bandt's claim is overblown. The source of his claim, the Poverty in Australia 2016 report, suggested that one in five people in poverty lived in a household where the reference person (as identified by the Australian…