What was claimed The verdict The Indigenous Voice to Parliament will provide “special rights” to one race of people in Australia.
VERDICT
False.
Legal and constitutional experts say the proposed Voice to Parliament will not provide anyone with “special rights”, but rather provide an opportunity to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to make representations to parliament on matters that impact them.
During a campaign stop last week in Launceston, Prime Minister Scott Morrison was challenged on his record of delivering promises made during the 2019 election campaign.Asked if his failure to establish a federal anti-corruption body amounted to a broken promise, Mr Morrison responded: “Well, no. It’s not.””I have honoured my proposal,” he said, arguing the issue lay not with the government but with a lack of “bipartisan support” from Labor.”We put forward our proposal in detailed legislation and it has not been supported by the Labor Party,” he added.But the evidence suggests that Mr Morrison did break his promise.
Source: The Prime Minister’s failure to establish a federal ICAC looks like a broken promise – ABC News
Biden made 67 false and misleading statements in his first 100 days in office, according to a report Monday from The Washington Post’s fact checker. That compares to 511 such comments from his predecessor Donald Trump in his first 100 days. The Post’s fact checkers characterized the Biden era as “a return to a more typical pattern when it comes to a commander in chief and his relationship with the facts — one that features frequent spin and obfuscation or exaggeration, with the occasional canard.” The team analyzed Biden’s every speech, interview, tweet or public statement, following the same methodology as the database that tallied more than 30,500 false or misleading claims over the course of Trump’s four years in office.
Source: How Many False Claims Did Biden Make In His First 100 Days Compared To Trump? | HuffPost
Like other forms of intolerance, however, Islamophobia can be objectively assessed. Empirical studies are an effective means of exposing this prejudice, one that plagues both sides of the political spectrum.
Hating on Muslims in Western Media is based on the Big Lie
Some simple checks can help separate an honest statistic from a falsehood
Without learning to think statistically, we’ll never know when people are bending the truth | Paul Goodwin | Opinion | The Guardian
left unsaid is the legality and morality of the conflict we were involved in, the irreparable damage done to innocent civilians who will remain strangers to us and the carnage left behind.
It’s hard to believe that, over three years, with 2,400 bombs, we allegedly took the lives of only eight people, including two children, and devastated their immediate family and friends.
It is worth noting the report published by NPR on 19 December 2017 that
‘… figures obtained by NPR from the Mosul morgue put the number of civilians killed [by the coalition, Iraqi forces or ISIS] at over 5,000. That is likely more than the number of ISIS fighters believed to have been in Mosul and presumed dead.’
The report also noted that
‘… months of vicious fighting – the battle started in October 2016 and ended in July 2017 – left destruction so extensive that U.S. commanders compare it to the World War II battle for Stalingrad.’
via ADF conceals dark truth about Australia’s involvement in Middle East
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Apparently in this new era of alternative facts, the fact checkers have become America’s greatest enemy. President Trump’s ongoing war against the media escalated today, when he suggested that the press was maliciously covering up terrorist attacks in foreign countries to make him look bad. “You’ve seen what happened in Paris, and Nice. All […]
Source: Trump Just Briefed Top Military Leaders on a Totally Insane Conspiracy Theory
Was the previous Labor government responsible for a record deficit as Mathias Cormann suggests? ABC Fact Check runs the numbers.
Scott Morrison says the vast majority of Australians who use negative gearing earn modest incomes. ABC Fact Check investigates.
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