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Alex Hawke

Minister for Immigration. 1 claim checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2021 to 2021. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.

Checked by RMIT ABC Fact Check14 Sep 2021Australia
Alex Hawke, Minister for Immigration

“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.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Cherrypicking

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: 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…