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Scott Morrison

Fact check: Anne Rushton’s false and misleading unemployment claims

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Why Morrison smirks and smears at a trusted FACT CHECKER

The facts: Unemployment by Prime Minister First, the claims themselves. Senator Ruston said, “You’ve only got to look at the history of the Labor Party. Notoriously they’ve always presided over … higher unemployment rates.” TND found that this claim is false. Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows Labor has not always presided over higher unemployment rates than the Coalition. In fact, unemployment fell to 4 per cent twice under Labor in 2008 – an equal record low to February 2022 (the current rate). Looking at averages, unemployment was 5.1 per cent under Labor’s last term from 2008 to 2013, compared to 6.3 per cent under John Howard’s term from 1996 to 2007. Under the current Coalition government, which came into office in 2013 with Tony Abbott as prime minister, the jobless rate has averaged at 5.6 per cent.

Source: Fact check: Anne Rushton’s false and misleading unemployment claims

IPCC

Fact check: Angus Taylor’s response to the landmark IPCC report | Energy | The Guardian

Federal energy minister and emissions reduction minister Angus Taylor

Australia’s minister for emissions reduction, Angus Taylor, released a statement in response to the IPCC report. Here, we assess his claims.

1 Taylor’s word play: Ambition isn’t Commitment and projections show Australia isn’t on track

2  Taylor’s distraction: There has been no structural shift away from fossil fuels in transport, industry and mining. Reduction due to the pandemic isn’t a reduction Taylor makes out it is.

3 Taylor’s Steal: Australians certainly have grabbed household solar and run with it. But the solar surge has happened despite the Coalition, not because of any coordinated government effort.

4  Taylor’s Bullshit: For the record, no major party is proposing a carbon tax. The carbon policy Abbott repealed wasn’t a carbon tax either, despite all the apocalyptic screeching before the 2013 election. Just ask Abbott’s then chief of staff, Peta Credlin. “It wasn’t a carbon tax, as you know,” she said. “It was many other things in nomenclature terms but we made it a carbon tax.

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Source: Fact check: Angus Taylor’s response to the landmark IPCC report | Energy | The Guardian

Trump

Fact checking Trump’s CPAC speech – CNNPolitics
American Conservative Union Holds Annual Conference In Florida

Trump repeated a bunch of other false claims we regularly heard from him as president, on subjects ranging from trade with China to his stance on the war in Iraq. He also offered up some new false claims about President Joe Biden’s early days in office. We are still going through the transcript of Trump’s remarks, but here is an initial breakdown of some of the things he said.

Fact checking Trump’s CPAC speech – CNNPolitics
Trump

Georgia election: Donald Trump’s phone call fact-checked – BBC News
Georgia's voting systems manager Gabriel Sterling

US President Donald Trump spent more than an hour on the phone to election officials in Georgia, as he continues to try to overturn the result in the state. He made a number of accusations of fraud for which he did not provide evidence. We’ve fact-checked some of his claims.

Georgia election: Donald Trump’s phone call fact-checked – BBC News
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US election 2020: Fact-checking Trump team’s main fraud claims – BBC News
Trump supporter wearing Trump 2020 peaked cap

Some of these issues were highlighted at a press conference on Thursday led by the president’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. We’ve looked at the main allegations of fraud and irregularities.

US election 2020: Fact-checking Trump team’s main fraud claims – BBC News