corruption Claims | PoliticalClaims.au

9.1 Misleading

6.0

"National Anti-Corruption Commission operational July 2023 (74 active investigations, 10 convictions)"

CorruptionCommission

C0001 Partially True

6.0

"Spent $5 million building a water pipeline underwater, to supply a privately owned golf course in a city, using funds that were supposed to be spent o..."

Corruption

C0002 True

7.0

"Voted to prevent debate about creating a federal anti-corruption commission ('Federal ICAC')."

Corruption

C0008 Partially True

6.0

"Spent $105 million on grants for marginal and Coalition-held electorates which they are expected to deliver less value than other proposals. They then..."

CorruptionTax

C0009 Partially True

6.5

"Allocated $44M from the Building Better Futures fund to marginal electorates, through a process that was clearly not merit based (a.k.a. 'pork barrell..."

CorruptionTax

C0015 False

2.0

"Did not publish the text of the trilateral AUKUS treaty between Australia, the USA and the UK. (New Zealand was left out of the treaty.)"

CorruptionInternationalMilitary

C0016 Partially True

5.0

"Agreed to procurement terms for new nuclear submarines which explicitly prohibit the Australian Navy from 'opening the bonnet' to look at the nuclear ..."

CorruptionInternationalMilitary

C0020 Partially True

6.0

"Purchased 70,000 tonnes of coal to be shipped to the other side of the world to give to Ukraine. It would be cheaper and quicker to simply buy it from..."

ClimateCorruptionDonors +2 more

C0021 Partially True

6.0

"Secretly cancelled a $1.3 billion drone procurement contract."

CorruptionMilitary

C0022 True

6.0

"Spent $18M on a new leadership program, given to an organisation with no staff, no track record in anything related to leadership, with an incorrect r..."

CorruptionTax

C0023 Partially True

6.0

"Chose not to publish a 5-yearly report about the official state of the environment for over 3 months, so that voters in the 2022 election won't know w..."

CorruptionEnvironment

C0025 True

7.0

"Refused to publish numbers about how many COVID close contacts had been identified by the COVIDSafe app. They said it's the job of state governments t..."

CorruptionCOVID

C0026 True

8.0

"Kept secret the budgeting documents used to justify changing the NBN rollout from fibre to the premise to fibre to the node."

CorruptionCyberTech

C0028 Partially True

6.0

"Prevented the release of data relating to the effectiveness of carbon credit schemes to improve forest regeneration."

ClimateCorruptionEnvironment

C0029 Partially True

6.5

"Refused to justify or breakdown the $400 million per year being spent running the Nauru immigration detention centre. The number of detainees has drop..."

CorruptionRefugeesTax

C0030 True

8.0

"Vetoed research grants for projects about climate activism and Chinese politics, thereby undermining the independence of the Australian Research Counc..."

ClimateCorruptionEducation +2 more

C0032 Misleading

4.0

"Withheld the cost estimates of the legal defence costs for a class action against the commonwealth (about wage theft by a previous government)."

Corruption

C0033 Partially True

3.5

"Threatened media companies, saying they will have their access blocked if journalists report on a particular housing affordability policy from a new, ..."

ABCCorruption

C0035 Partially True

5.0

"Blocked a Freedom of Information (FOI) request for the report explaining why the Prime Minister was sacked from his last job."

Corruption

C0036 Partially True

4.0

"Censored multiple valid Senate inquiry submissions if inconvenient, deleting all records of receiving them, and instructed citizens to not publish the..."

Corruption

C0043 Misleading

5.0

"Snuck a controversial bill through parliament in the middle of the night, ending debate and voting on it at 4am."

Corruption

C0044 True

6.5

"Spent $675,000 travelling to investigate drought relief. When asked why nothing was produced from the trip, the government pointed to SMS messages, ca..."

CorruptionEnvironmentTax

C0052 Partially True

6.0

"Claimed "Alan Tudge is still in my cabinet", 4 months after standing down Alan Tudge over domestic abuse allegations."

CorruptionWomen

C0054 True

7.0

"Showed evidence to a judge when prosecuting a case against an Australian whistle-blower in a secret way such that the defendant cannot see the evidenc..."

CorruptionDefamationEthics

C0055 Partially True

6.0

"Introduced new police powers to spy on and hack innocent Aussies, without a warrant, even if they're not suspected of committing any crime. Powers inc..."

CorruptionCyberDefamation +3 more

C0056 Partially True

8.0

"Refused to publish minutes from the national cabinet tackling COVID. After a judge ruled that it must be published, they introduced a new law to keep ..."

CorruptionCOVID

C0057 Partially True

6.5

"Blocked a House of Representatives investigation into the source of a substantial donation to a minister's personal legal costs for a defamation prose..."

CorruptionDonors

C0058 Partially True

5.0

"Proposed forced identification of all social media users, arguing that citizens should not be able to post comments on social media anonymously, and t..."

CorruptionCyberTech

C0059 Partially True

6.0

"Lied by claiming new unprecedented police hacking laws would only apply to terrorists, paedophiles and drug traffickers, when their actual legislation..."

CorruptionCyberTech +1 more

C0061 Partially True

6.0

"Secretly pressured the United Nations to delete from their climate change report the claim that closing coal power plants is necessary to fight climat..."

ClimateCorruptionEnvironment +1 more

C0064 Partially True

6.0

"Handed free marketing opportunities to a private gas company by letting them take over some of Australia's stall at a global climate summit for world ..."

ClimateCorruptionEnvironment

C0066 Misleading

3.0

"Added red tape for business by forcing company directors to register for a special identifier through myGovID. This is supposed to make it easier for ..."

CorruptionTax

C0070 Partially True

6.0

"Refused to release modelling to support the claim that their climate policy can achieve the targets they say it will."

ClimateCorruptionEnvironment

C0073 Partially True

5.5

"Refused to tell the public how much they're paying a private company to build the COVID vaccine passport system which is already 6 months behind sched..."

CorruptionCOVIDTax

C0074 True

8.0

"Repeatedly refused to publish legal advice they received before implementing the robo-debt scheme (which has since been ruled to be illegal)"

CorruptionWelfare

C0075 True

7.5

"Changed the role of ASIC (the corporate cop), moving them away from prosecuting law-breaking companies to focusing on removing regulatory burdens, eco..."

CorruptionSafetyTerror

C0077 Partially True

6.0

"Obscured millions of dollars of funding to a think-tank co-funded by private arms manufacturers, which primarily just creates anti-China sentiment and..."

CorruptionInternationalMilitary +1 more

C0079 Partially True

6.0

"Approved the majority of weapon export requests to countries like Saudi Arabia and UAE, who are accused of multiple war crimes in Yemen. The governmen..."

CorruptionEthicsInternational +1 more

C0081 True

8.0

"Allocated $660 million in funding for new car parks based on which electorates were marginal for the upcoming election instead of which areas most nee..."

CorruptionTax

C0082 Partially True

6.0

"Paid hundreds of millions of dollars to for-profit private companies to oversee and deliver COVID vaccine distribution, instead of using the existing,..."

CorruptionCOVIDDonors +1 more

C0089 Partially True

5.0

"Underwrote surge costs on popular airline routes. That is, risk is being shouldered by the taxpayer, whilst profit is privatised. This increases off-b..."

CorruptionTax

C0090 Partially True

7.0

"Kept secret the arguments made by the government during an appeal for a whether a court case against a journalist should be secret. That is, the gover..."

CorruptionEthics

C0092 True

8.0

"Removed 3 out of 4 recommendations from a report investigating a blank-cheque payment to a private consultant which was made without even verifying th..."

CorruptionTax

C0094 Partially True

7.0

"Illegally appointed a Liberal Party Senator to a high-ranking high-paying role at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. The candidate was not eligible ..."

Corruption

C0095 Partially True

7.0

"Spent $10 million per month maintaining an offshore oil rig that is not producing any oil, after private owners profited for many years for costs of o..."

ClimateCorruptionEnvironment +1 more

C0098 Partially True

8.0

"Illegally misled voters by creating dozens of Facebook pages for fictional institutes and pages with deceptively similar names to real organisations, ..."

CorruptionCyberEthics

C0102 Partially True

6.5

"Paid $1.6 billion to house only 115 asylum seekers offshore, at a daily price about 10 times higher than the most expensive room at Sydney's Four Seas..."

CorruptionDonorsRefugees +1 more

C0103 Partially True

6.0

"Charged taxpayers for a domestic flight to a personal lunch."

CorruptionTax

C0108 Misleading

3.0

"Granted an unelected official the power to delete online posts by politicians and ban them from platforms for expressing controversial political opini..."

CorruptionCyberDefamation

C0109 False

3.0

"Lied by claiming that new legislation could not result in dating apps such as Tinder being banned in Australia, when their legislation clearly states ..."

CorruptionCyberDefamation +1 more

All corruption Claims

"National Anti-Corruption Commission operational July 2023 (74 active investigations, 10 convictions)"

"Spent $5 million building a water pipeline underwater, to supply a privately owned golf course in a city, using funds that were supposed to be spent o..."

"Voted to prevent debate about creating a federal anti-corruption commission ('Federal ICAC')."

"Spent $105 million on grants for marginal and Coalition-held electorates which they are expected to deliver less value than other proposals. They then..."

"Allocated $44M from the Building Better Futures fund to marginal electorates, through a process that was clearly not merit based (a.k.a. 'pork barrell..."

"Did not publish the text of the trilateral AUKUS treaty between Australia, the USA and the UK. (New Zealand was left out of the treaty.)"

"Agreed to procurement terms for new nuclear submarines which explicitly prohibit the Australian Navy from 'opening the bonnet' to look at the nuclear ..."

"Purchased 70,000 tonnes of coal to be shipped to the other side of the world to give to Ukraine. It would be cheaper and quicker to simply buy it from..."

"Secretly cancelled a $1.3 billion drone procurement contract."

"Spent $18M on a new leadership program, given to an organisation with no staff, no track record in anything related to leadership, with an incorrect r..."

"Chose not to publish a 5-yearly report about the official state of the environment for over 3 months, so that voters in the 2022 election won't know w..."

"Refused to publish numbers about how many COVID close contacts had been identified by the COVIDSafe app. They said it's the job of state governments t..."

"Kept secret the budgeting documents used to justify changing the NBN rollout from fibre to the premise to fibre to the node."

"Prevented the release of data relating to the effectiveness of carbon credit schemes to improve forest regeneration."

"Refused to justify or breakdown the $400 million per year being spent running the Nauru immigration detention centre. The number of detainees has drop..."

"Vetoed research grants for projects about climate activism and Chinese politics, thereby undermining the independence of the Australian Research Counc..."

"Withheld the cost estimates of the legal defence costs for a class action against the commonwealth (about wage theft by a previous government)."

"Threatened media companies, saying they will have their access blocked if journalists report on a particular housing affordability policy from a new, ..."

"Blocked a Freedom of Information (FOI) request for the report explaining why the Prime Minister was sacked from his last job."

"Censored multiple valid Senate inquiry submissions if inconvenient, deleting all records of receiving them, and instructed citizens to not publish the..."

"Snuck a controversial bill through parliament in the middle of the night, ending debate and voting on it at 4am."

"Spent $675,000 travelling to investigate drought relief. When asked why nothing was produced from the trip, the government pointed to SMS messages, ca..."

"Claimed "Alan Tudge is still in my cabinet", 4 months after standing down Alan Tudge over domestic abuse allegations."

"Showed evidence to a judge when prosecuting a case against an Australian whistle-blower in a secret way such that the defendant cannot see the evidenc..."

"Introduced new police powers to spy on and hack innocent Aussies, without a warrant, even if they're not suspected of committing any crime. Powers inc..."

"Refused to publish minutes from the national cabinet tackling COVID. After a judge ruled that it must be published, they introduced a new law to keep ..."

"Blocked a House of Representatives investigation into the source of a substantial donation to a minister's personal legal costs for a defamation prose..."

"Proposed forced identification of all social media users, arguing that citizens should not be able to post comments on social media anonymously, and t..."

"Lied by claiming new unprecedented police hacking laws would only apply to terrorists, paedophiles and drug traffickers, when their actual legislation..."

"Secretly pressured the United Nations to delete from their climate change report the claim that closing coal power plants is necessary to fight climat..."

"Handed free marketing opportunities to a private gas company by letting them take over some of Australia's stall at a global climate summit for world ..."

"Added red tape for business by forcing company directors to register for a special identifier through myGovID. This is supposed to make it easier for ..."

"Refused to release modelling to support the claim that their climate policy can achieve the targets they say it will."

"Refused to tell the public how much they're paying a private company to build the COVID vaccine passport system which is already 6 months behind sched..."

"Repeatedly refused to publish legal advice they received before implementing the robo-debt scheme (which has since been ruled to be illegal)"

"Changed the role of ASIC (the corporate cop), moving them away from prosecuting law-breaking companies to focusing on removing regulatory burdens, eco..."

"Obscured millions of dollars of funding to a think-tank co-funded by private arms manufacturers, which primarily just creates anti-China sentiment and..."

"Approved the majority of weapon export requests to countries like Saudi Arabia and UAE, who are accused of multiple war crimes in Yemen. The governmen..."

"Allocated $660 million in funding for new car parks based on which electorates were marginal for the upcoming election instead of which areas most nee..."

"Paid hundreds of millions of dollars to for-profit private companies to oversee and deliver COVID vaccine distribution, instead of using the existing,..."

"Underwrote surge costs on popular airline routes. That is, risk is being shouldered by the taxpayer, whilst profit is privatised. This increases off-b..."

"Kept secret the arguments made by the government during an appeal for a whether a court case against a journalist should be secret. That is, the gover..."

"Removed 3 out of 4 recommendations from a report investigating a blank-cheque payment to a private consultant which was made without even verifying th..."

"Illegally appointed a Liberal Party Senator to a high-ranking high-paying role at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. The candidate was not eligible ..."

"Spent $10 million per month maintaining an offshore oil rig that is not producing any oil, after private owners profited for many years for costs of o..."

"Illegally misled voters by creating dozens of Facebook pages for fictional institutes and pages with deceptively similar names to real organisations, ..."

"Paid $1.6 billion to house only 115 asylum seekers offshore, at a daily price about 10 times higher than the most expensive room at Sydney's Four Seas..."

"Charged taxpayers for a domestic flight to a personal lunch."

"Granted an unelected official the power to delete online posts by politicians and ban them from platforms for expressing controversial political opini..."

"Lied by claiming that new legislation could not result in dating apps such as Tinder being banned in Australia, when their legislation clearly states ..."

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