Anthony Albanese

“We know that there's a greater chance of an Indigenous young male going to jail than university.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: 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…

“All the surveys show that somewhere between 80 and 90 per cent of Indigenous Australians want [the Voice to Parliament]”

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Yes, Mr Albanese's reading of the polls broadly aligns with their headline results, but there's more to it. Experts spoken to by Fact Check pointed to two polls, conducted by Ipsos (in January) and YouGov (in March), wh…

“Australia has been the largest non-NATO contributor [to Ukraine]”

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Albanese's claim doesn't stack up. Experts told Fact Check comparisons of contributions to Ukraine were complicated by a lack of complete data, varied definitions of what constitutes a "contribution" and difficulties…

“This is the largest number of women who have ever served in an Australian cabinet, with 10 women in the cabinet.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Albanese's claim is correct. The previous record was 8 women in cabinet, or 34.8 per cent of cabinet positions, achieved during the final term of Scott Morrison's Coalition government. The first ministry of the Alban…

“People know that debt has never been higher, deficits have never been higher.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Albanese is wrong. Historical data shows that debt and deficit, when measured against GDP, were higher in the years following the world wars when compared with current levels. It is this measure economists use to mak…

“Australia has slipped to 59th in the world average broadband speed rankings”

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Albanese's claim checks out. According to Ookla's Speedtest Global Index — a source that experts quoted as the industry standard — Australia ranked 59th out of 180 nations in average broadband download speeds. Ookla …

“It costs 34 per cent more to see your doctor today than it did when the Liberals came to power.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Albanese's claim is misleading. In more than seven years of Coalition government, the average out-of-pocket cost for GP visits for those patients who are charged fees increased by 38 per cent. However, more than 66 p…

“... real wages [are] declining over the next four years after flatlining over the last eight years.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Albanese is close to the mark. Over the eight years to December 2020 real wages -- that is, wages adjusted for the impact of inflation — grew by 3.1 per cent. That represents an annual average growth rate of about 0.…

“In just seven years, the Liberals have gutted the Audit Office by 20%.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Albanese's claim is overstated. Government resourcing of the ANAO, when adjusted for inflation, was 14.34 per cent lower in 2019-20 than in Labor's final budget. If the funding set out in the recent 2020-21 budget ev…

“[W]e had a 15 per cent reduction when we were in government. Up to … the end of last year, there had only been a 1 per cent reduction under this government since it came to office in 2013.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Albanese's claim is close to the mark. Annual greenhouse gas emissions fell 14.4 per cent under the last Labor government. By December 2019, under the Coalition, they had fallen 1.4 per cent. The quarterly figures re…

“The Snowy Mountains scheme was the achievement of only one party”