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8.7 Partially True

7.0

"World-leading gig economy protections setting minimum standards"

GigEconomyProtections

C0004 Misleading

6.0

"Proposed new laws which will allow the government to block capitalists from planting lots of trees to fight climate change, despite saying they plan t..."

ClimateEconomyEnvironment

C0013 True

7.0

"Broke a promise to close loopholes that allowed child abusers to keep their superannuation when they're running out of money to pay compensation to th..."

AgeingEconomyEthics

C0040 Partially True

6.5

"Announced a $800 bonus for aged care workers, but then processed the applications slowly, paying only 3% of aged care workers after 2 months. The gove..."

EconomyTax

C0049 Partially True

6.0

"Criticised capitalist Mike Cannon-Brookes when he tried to transition AGL from coal to renewables, in the same month they claimed they'll solve climat..."

ClimateEconomyEnvironment

C0051 Partially True

5.5

"Asked the electricity grid regulator to increase the notice period for coal plant closures from 3.5 years to 5. That is, the government wants investor..."

ClimateEconomyEnvironment

C0060 Partially True

5.5

"Introduced legislation designed to make gig economy companies like Deliveroo report more tax information about their employees, which was so sloppily ..."

CyberEconomyTax

C0084 Partially True

6.0

"Spent $600 million building a new gas power plant after the private sector decided it made no commercial sense to do so."

ClimateEconomyEnvironment +1 more

C0085 Partially True

6.0

"Paid $2 billion to help keep private for-profit oil refineries open, which they claim will save consumers only 1 cent per litre when filling up their ..."

ClimateEconomyEnvironment +1 more

C0086 Partially True

6.0

"Paid $6.7 million in JobKeeper subsidies to a private company whose profits quadrupled during 2020, and which is half-owned by a foreigner via a shell..."

COVIDEconomyTax +1 more

C0087 Partially True

6.0

"Handed $1.34 billion to Qantas (a private company) for the purpose of creating jobs, but Qantas spent most of that paying redundancy packages while cu..."

EconomyTaxWelfare

C0088 Partially True

6.5

"Handed $38 billion in JobKeeper payments to companies who did not suffer significant downturns during COVID, and refused to ask for the money back onc..."

EconomyTaxWelfare

C0116 Partially True

6.0

"Lied by claiming they had implemented the majority of recommendations from the Banking Royal Commission, when they had only completed a minority."

EconomyEthicsSafety

C0124 True

9.0

"Wound back consumer protections introduced as a result of the banking royal commission."

EconomyEthicsSafety

C0140 Partially True

6.0

"Introduced instant asset write off tax breaks for businesses during COVID, which will cost over $30 billion, to boost the economy by only $10 billion."

COVIDEconomyTax

C0142 Partially True

6.5

"Introduced a new benchmark system for superannuation funds, to penalise funds that perform relatively poorly in the short term without considering ris..."

AgeingEconomySafety

C0143 Partially True

5.0

"Added new rules to force superannuation funds to maximise returns regardless of anything else, which is a step towards disallowing super funds from ha..."

AgeingEconomySafety

C0148 Partially True

6.0

"Tried to spend $3.3 million on a feasibility study grant for subsidising a new coal generator. The company who would build it have no relevant experie..."

ClimateEconomyEnvironment +1 more

C0152 Partially True

6.0

"Wound back consumer protections and responsible lending obligations for mortgage brokers which were introduced in the aftermath of the global financia..."

EconomySafety

C0154 Partially True

6.0

"Prevented Australian universities from receiving JobKeeper payments, whilst paying JobSeeker money to a foreign university. (University education is A..."

EconomyEducationWelfare +1 more

C0155 Partially True

6.5

"Loosened corporate financial disclosure rules during the pandemic, preventing investors from lodging class actions against companies who mislead the m..."

COVIDEconomy

C0158 Misleading

3.0

"Introduced protections for company executives who trade while insolvent during the pandemic. This is only for cases where the debts are incurred 'the ..."

COVIDEconomySafety

C0159 Partially True

6.5

"Defined the eligibility criteria for the JobKeeper scheme so loosely that millions of dollars from the government which were supposed to subsidise emp..."

CorruptionEconomyTax +1 more

C0165 Partially True

6.5

"Gave $10 million worth of bushfire recovery funds to a privately owned paper mill which was not impacted by the bushfire. The parent company pays an e..."

ClimateCorruptionEconomy +2 more

C0166 True

8.0

"Tried to redefine what 'investment' means in legislation to include things where you expect to lose money. This is to allow the government to hand cas..."

ClimateCorruptionEconomy +2 more

C0167 Partially True

6.0

"Created red tape which will make it harder for individuals to take class actions against companies which have broken the law. This goes directly again..."

EconomySafetyTax

C0179 Partially True

6.0

"Hurt barley farmers by antagonising the Chinese government, who retaliated by slapping an 80% tariff on barley exports."

EconomyInternational

C0180 True

7.0

"Suspended requirements that commercial television stations produce at least some content in Australia to create Australian jobs."

ABCEconomy

C0181 Partially True

6.0

"Announced $50 million in funding to help the Australian film industry cope during the pandemic, but did not publish any instructions on how eligible, ..."

COVIDEconomy

C0190 Partially True

7.5

"Broke an election promise about providing a trading system to help dairy farmers be more fairly compensated for milk production."

Economy

C0193 Partially True

5.0

"Reduced the competitiveness of Australia's technology industry by passing laws which allow the government to force back doors into Australian software..."

CyberEconomyInternational +2 more

C0201 Misleading

5.0

"Introduced a new tax, to incentivise non-NBN users to migrate to the expensive NBN."

CyberEconomyTax +1 more

C0223 True

8.0

"Lied by claiming that tax cuts would be paid sooner than the passing of the relevant legislation."

EconomyTax

C0239 Partially True

5.0

"Proposed reversing the onus of proof, so that citizens may be considered guilty until proven innocent, for tax fraud and money laundering crimes."

EconomyEthicsTax +1 more

C0249 Partially True

7.0

"Forecast an increase in wage growth despite simultaneously forecasting no decrease in unemployment. (So employers would pay more for no economically r..."

Economy

C0256 True

7.0

"Promised the creation of 1.25 million jobs without doing any calculation or modelling to arrive at that number."

Economy

C0257 Partially True

6.0

"Blocked the construction of Australia's first offshore wind farm for years, which would create 12,000 jobs and meet 20% of Victoria's electricity dema..."

ClimateEconomyEnvironment

C0266 Partially True

3.0

"Spent $400 million on a problem plagued automated "robodebt" system which recovered only $500 million of unpaid debt, through an illegal "guilty until..."

EconomyEthicsTax +1 more

C0270 True

8.0

"Broke an election promise to establish a register of shell company ownership, to fight corporate tax dodging."

CorruptionEconomyTax

C0285 Partially True

6.5

"Rejected recommendations from the Productivity Commission that the government add a 'fair use' exemption to copyright law, and to change the law to ex..."

ABCEconomySafety

C0326 Partially True

5.0

"Spent $300k on 60 seconds of advertising to spruik new energy policies designed to reduce power bills. That amount of money could have been spent to p..."

EconomyTax

C0338 False

2.0

"Told tender applicants for a $90B ship-building project that they don't need to spend any of that construction money in Australia."

CorruptionEconomy

C0361 Partially True

6.0

"Introduced a new tax, of at least $7.10 per month per NBN fixed line user."

CyberEconomyTax +1 more

C0365 Partially True

6.0

"Introduced a policy very similar to the First Home Buyer's Account policy they scrapped a few years earlier, with the main difference being that it in..."

AgeingEconomyYouth

C0394 Misleading

4.0

"Changed public servant super laws to reduce the retirement payout of long-term teachers, police and nurses by tens of thousands, or even hundreds of t..."

AgeingEconomy

C0395 Partially True

5.0

"Conducted an inquiry into housing affordability which gave no recommendations on how to help fix housing affordability."

EconomyTax

C0396 Partially True

6.0

"Spent $26 million and laid off 93 scientists to move the location of the agricultural chemicals and veterinary medicines regulator."

EconomyTax

C0400 Partially True

6.0

"Axed 900 jobs in the national flight control agency, despite concerns that losing so many staff will compromise safety."

EconomySafety

C0405 Partially True

6.0

"Gave $4 billion in tax cuts to the richest fifth of the population."

EconomyTax

C0408 Misleading

4.0

"Introduced a second internet filter. Internet consumers will be forced pay their telcos to block websites which foreign film companies dislike. The Li..."

ABCCorruptionCyber +4 more

All economy Claims

"World-leading gig economy protections setting minimum standards"

"Proposed new laws which will allow the government to block capitalists from planting lots of trees to fight climate change, despite saying they plan t..."

"Broke a promise to close loopholes that allowed child abusers to keep their superannuation when they're running out of money to pay compensation to th..."

"Announced a $800 bonus for aged care workers, but then processed the applications slowly, paying only 3% of aged care workers after 2 months. The gove..."

"Criticised capitalist Mike Cannon-Brookes when he tried to transition AGL from coal to renewables, in the same month they claimed they'll solve climat..."

"Asked the electricity grid regulator to increase the notice period for coal plant closures from 3.5 years to 5. That is, the government wants investor..."

"Introduced legislation designed to make gig economy companies like Deliveroo report more tax information about their employees, which was so sloppily ..."

"Spent $600 million building a new gas power plant after the private sector decided it made no commercial sense to do so."

"Paid $2 billion to help keep private for-profit oil refineries open, which they claim will save consumers only 1 cent per litre when filling up their ..."

"Paid $6.7 million in JobKeeper subsidies to a private company whose profits quadrupled during 2020, and which is half-owned by a foreigner via a shell..."

"Handed $1.34 billion to Qantas (a private company) for the purpose of creating jobs, but Qantas spent most of that paying redundancy packages while cu..."

"Handed $38 billion in JobKeeper payments to companies who did not suffer significant downturns during COVID, and refused to ask for the money back onc..."

"Lied by claiming they had implemented the majority of recommendations from the Banking Royal Commission, when they had only completed a minority."

"Wound back consumer protections introduced as a result of the banking royal commission."

"Introduced instant asset write off tax breaks for businesses during COVID, which will cost over $30 billion, to boost the economy by only $10 billion."

"Introduced a new benchmark system for superannuation funds, to penalise funds that perform relatively poorly in the short term without considering ris..."

"Added new rules to force superannuation funds to maximise returns regardless of anything else, which is a step towards disallowing super funds from ha..."

"Tried to spend $3.3 million on a feasibility study grant for subsidising a new coal generator. The company who would build it have no relevant experie..."

"Wound back consumer protections and responsible lending obligations for mortgage brokers which were introduced in the aftermath of the global financia..."

"Prevented Australian universities from receiving JobKeeper payments, whilst paying JobSeeker money to a foreign university. (University education is A..."

"Loosened corporate financial disclosure rules during the pandemic, preventing investors from lodging class actions against companies who mislead the m..."

"Introduced protections for company executives who trade while insolvent during the pandemic. This is only for cases where the debts are incurred 'the ..."

"Defined the eligibility criteria for the JobKeeper scheme so loosely that millions of dollars from the government which were supposed to subsidise emp..."

"Gave $10 million worth of bushfire recovery funds to a privately owned paper mill which was not impacted by the bushfire. The parent company pays an e..."

"Tried to redefine what 'investment' means in legislation to include things where you expect to lose money. This is to allow the government to hand cas..."

"Created red tape which will make it harder for individuals to take class actions against companies which have broken the law. This goes directly again..."

"Hurt barley farmers by antagonising the Chinese government, who retaliated by slapping an 80% tariff on barley exports."

"Suspended requirements that commercial television stations produce at least some content in Australia to create Australian jobs."

"Announced $50 million in funding to help the Australian film industry cope during the pandemic, but did not publish any instructions on how eligible, ..."

"Broke an election promise about providing a trading system to help dairy farmers be more fairly compensated for milk production."

"Reduced the competitiveness of Australia's technology industry by passing laws which allow the government to force back doors into Australian software..."

"Introduced a new tax, to incentivise non-NBN users to migrate to the expensive NBN."

"Lied by claiming that tax cuts would be paid sooner than the passing of the relevant legislation."

"Proposed reversing the onus of proof, so that citizens may be considered guilty until proven innocent, for tax fraud and money laundering crimes."

"Forecast an increase in wage growth despite simultaneously forecasting no decrease in unemployment. (So employers would pay more for no economically r..."

"Promised the creation of 1.25 million jobs without doing any calculation or modelling to arrive at that number."

"Blocked the construction of Australia's first offshore wind farm for years, which would create 12,000 jobs and meet 20% of Victoria's electricity dema..."

"Spent $400 million on a problem plagued automated "robodebt" system which recovered only $500 million of unpaid debt, through an illegal "guilty until..."

"Broke an election promise to establish a register of shell company ownership, to fight corporate tax dodging."

"Rejected recommendations from the Productivity Commission that the government add a 'fair use' exemption to copyright law, and to change the law to ex..."

"Spent $300k on 60 seconds of advertising to spruik new energy policies designed to reduce power bills. That amount of money could have been spent to p..."

"Told tender applicants for a $90B ship-building project that they don't need to spend any of that construction money in Australia."

"Introduced a new tax, of at least $7.10 per month per NBN fixed line user."

"Introduced a policy very similar to the First Home Buyer's Account policy they scrapped a few years earlier, with the main difference being that it in..."

"Changed public servant super laws to reduce the retirement payout of long-term teachers, police and nurses by tens of thousands, or even hundreds of t..."

"Conducted an inquiry into housing affordability which gave no recommendations on how to help fix housing affordability."

"Spent $26 million and laid off 93 scientists to move the location of the agricultural chemicals and veterinary medicines regulator."

"Axed 900 jobs in the national flight control agency, despite concerns that losing so many staff will compromise safety."

"Gave $4 billion in tax cuts to the richest fifth of the population."

"Introduced a second internet filter. Internet consumers will be forced pay their telcos to block websites which foreign film companies dislike. The Li..."

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