“You name it, everything is going up except your wages”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
The Australian Bureau of Statistics' measure of wages, the wage price index, has not fallen under the Coalition, though it is sluggish. Experts contacted by Fact Check took issue with Mr Shorten's claim, as the WPI has recently outstripped the bureau's measure of prices, the consumer price index. Whilst childcare and medical expenses are up in the CPI, other contributors to the index actually fell. This means that real wages — that is, wages taking into account inflation — are currently on th...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Bill Shorten (Opposition Leader) made this claim around 29 April 2019. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 14 June 2019, 46 days later. Its rating was “Doesn't stack up”.
Bill Shorten has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
Where the claim appeared
- abc.net.auhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-16/bill-shorten-claims-wages-are-stagnant/11071888?nw…
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This check was done by RMIT ABC Fact Check, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.