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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

C0099 Partially True

7.0

"Spent $3.7 million making a video to teach 16 year-olds about sexual consent without talking about sex. The video was pulled within days due to it bei..."

EducationEthicsTax +1 more

C0151 Partially True

6.5

"Introduced a bill to allow the government to cancel any international agreements between universities, councils or sports institutions and other count..."

EducationInternational

C0153 Partially True

6.0

"Cut $2 billion in funding for university research, including funding for medical research during the pandemic."

COVIDEducationScience +1 more

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

C0171 Partially True

6.0

"Proposed cutting HECS support for TAFE and university students who fail too many courses, which will give institutions a strong financial incentive to..."

EducationYouth

C0173 Partially True

6.0

"More than doubled the cost of some university degrees, decreasing the government's contribution to exactly $0."

EducationYouth

C0231 Partially True

7.0

"Paid a reality TV star $260k per year to be a 'career ambassador'. This is to promote vocational training as a career choice for young Australians, af..."

CorruptionEducationTax

C0278 True

8.0

"Cut TAFE funding again, this time by $270 million."

EducationYouth

C0289 True

8.0

"Secretly blocked funding for $4 million in humanities research projects, which were already approved by the government's research approval body (ARC)."

EducationYouth

C0310 True

8.0

"Reduced the income threshold at which graduates start paying back HECS debt, down to $45,000."

EducationYouth

C0328 True

7.0

"Cut university funding again, this time by $2.1 billion."

EducationYouth

C0335 Partially True

6.0

"Tried to reduce the number of tertiary courses eligible for Austudy report."

Education

C0360 Partially True

6.0

"Prevented university newspapers from attending the release of multiple annual budgets like all other newspapers. These particular budgets contained mu..."

ABCCorruptionEducation +1 more

C0368 Partially True

6.5

"Cut university funding again, this time by 2.5%."

Education

C0439 Partially True

2.0

"Proposed blocking students from going to university if their ATAR is too low, even if the university has spare spaces and is happy with their ATAR."

EducationYouth

C0440 Partially True

5.0

"Proposed forcing students to pay back HECS earlier if they have parents or a long term partner with an income over a threshold."

EconomyEducationYouth

C0458 Misleading

4.0

"Scrapped the 'Safe Schools' anti-bullying program, on the National Day of Action Against Bullying."

Culture WarsEducationEthics +1 more

C0517 Partially True

6.0

"Spent over $20,000 in a legal fight in order to hide modelling for the impact of university fee deregulation."

CorruptionEducationYouth

C0551 Partially True

6.0

"Cut all funding for The Conversation, a website which allows academics to promote and explain their research to a broader audience."

ABCEducationScience

C0556 Partially True

6.0

"Scrapped the domestic violence education program in schools."

EducationSafetyWomen +1 more

C0597 Misleading

4.0

"Spent more money per student on homeopathy, flower essence therapy and naturopathy tertiary courses than law, economics, languages and humanities."

EducationYouth

C0601 Partially True

5.0

"Spent over $15 million on an advertisement campaign to make university fee deregulation more palatable."

EducationYouth

C0603 Partially True

6.0

"Scrapped a plan to make coursework masters students eligible for income support."

EducationYouth

C0604 Partially True

5.0

"Cut $44 million over 4 years from the Skills for Education and Employment program which helps job seekers improve their reading, writing and maths."

EconomyEducationYouth

C0605 True

6.0

"Cut $66 million over 3 years from a program which supplements the income of adult apprentices earning less than minimum wage."

EconomyEducationYouth

C0691 Misleading

3.0

"Claimed that removing the upper limit on university fees will cause fees to decrease."

Education

C0715 Partially True

6.0

"Removed financial rewards which encouraged Universities to enrol disadvantaged students."

Education

C0732 Partially True

6.0

"Tried to deregulate university fees, thereby allowing Universities to charge what they want. Students would end up with American levels of crippling d..."

EconomyEducationYouth

C0737 True

7.0

"Scrapped the Commonwealth Human Rights Education Program."

EducationEthicsYouth

C0738 True

7.0

"Scrapped the Education Department's Online Diagnostic Tools Program, which helped improve teachers' productivity."

EducationYouth

C0754 Partially True

6.0

"Ended the Get Reading! program."

EducationYouth

C0755 Partially True

5.0

"Scrapped the Centre for Quality Teaching."

EducationYouth

C0758 Partially True

5.0

"Cut all funding to NICTA, a peak ICT technology research company. Coincidentally, NICTA publicly criticised the Coalition's NBN only a few weeks earli..."

CorruptionCyberDefamation +3 more

C0760 Partially True

5.0

"Spent $245 million for religious chaplains in schools. Secular schools were stripped of the option of hiring a secular equivalent. No guarantees have ..."

Culture WarsEconomyEducation +2 more

C0768 False

2.0

"Started charging interest on HECS."

EconomyEducationYouth

C0769 True

7.0

"Reduced the income threshold where graduates start to pay back HECS."

EconomyEducationYouth

C0771 Partially True

6.0

"Scrapped a loan scheme which helped apprentices buy the tools they need to learn and work."

EconomyEducationYouth

C0809 True

7.0

"Paid a public relations company $97,000 for 3 weeks of work to help improve the Education Department's image, then refused to release the report that ..."

CorruptionEducationTax +1 more

C0810 Partially True

6.0

"Claimed the government will be $13.7 billion better off if the Mining Tax is scrapped, even though the scrapping the tax itself would actually result ..."

EconomyEducationYouth

C0901 True

7.0

"Lied about NSW signing on with their independent schools deal."

EducationYouth

C0902 Misleading

4.0

"Proposed the conversion of one quarter of public schools to independent schools."

EducationYouth

C0978 Partially True

6.0

"Cut $3 billion in welfare for students, the elderly and families."

AgeingEducationWelfare +1 more

C0981 Partially True

6.0

"Abandoned Gonski agreements with states and committed to 3 fewer years of Gonski than their pre-election promise."

EducationYouth

C0990 False

2.0

"Cut $2.3 billion from higher education, and removed start-up scholarships (thereby significantly increasing the debt of the poorest students) and remo..."

EconomyEducationYouth

C0993 False

2.0

"Withdrawn all Commonwealth funding for Commonwealth supported places at University."

EconomyEducationYouth

C1003 Partially True

6.0

"Proposed privatising HECS"

EconomyEducationYouth

All education Claims

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

"Spent $3.7 million making a video to teach 16 year-olds about sexual consent without talking about sex. The video was pulled within days due to it bei..."

"Introduced a bill to allow the government to cancel any international agreements between universities, councils or sports institutions and other count..."

"Cut $2 billion in funding for university research, including funding for medical research during the pandemic."

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

"Proposed cutting HECS support for TAFE and university students who fail too many courses, which will give institutions a strong financial incentive to..."

"More than doubled the cost of some university degrees, decreasing the government's contribution to exactly $0."

"Paid a reality TV star $260k per year to be a 'career ambassador'. This is to promote vocational training as a career choice for young Australians, af..."

"Cut TAFE funding again, this time by $270 million."

"Secretly blocked funding for $4 million in humanities research projects, which were already approved by the government's research approval body (ARC)."

"Reduced the income threshold at which graduates start paying back HECS debt, down to $45,000."

"Cut university funding again, this time by $2.1 billion."

"Tried to reduce the number of tertiary courses eligible for Austudy report."

"Prevented university newspapers from attending the release of multiple annual budgets like all other newspapers. These particular budgets contained mu..."

"Cut university funding again, this time by 2.5%."

"Proposed blocking students from going to university if their ATAR is too low, even if the university has spare spaces and is happy with their ATAR."

"Proposed forcing students to pay back HECS earlier if they have parents or a long term partner with an income over a threshold."

"Scrapped the 'Safe Schools' anti-bullying program, on the National Day of Action Against Bullying."

"Spent over $20,000 in a legal fight in order to hide modelling for the impact of university fee deregulation."

"Cut all funding for The Conversation, a website which allows academics to promote and explain their research to a broader audience."

"Scrapped the domestic violence education program in schools."

"Spent more money per student on homeopathy, flower essence therapy and naturopathy tertiary courses than law, economics, languages and humanities."

"Spent over $15 million on an advertisement campaign to make university fee deregulation more palatable."

"Scrapped a plan to make coursework masters students eligible for income support."

"Cut $44 million over 4 years from the Skills for Education and Employment program which helps job seekers improve their reading, writing and maths."

"Cut $66 million over 3 years from a program which supplements the income of adult apprentices earning less than minimum wage."

"Claimed that removing the upper limit on university fees will cause fees to decrease."

"Removed financial rewards which encouraged Universities to enrol disadvantaged students."

"Tried to deregulate university fees, thereby allowing Universities to charge what they want. Students would end up with American levels of crippling d..."

"Scrapped the Commonwealth Human Rights Education Program."

"Scrapped the Education Department's Online Diagnostic Tools Program, which helped improve teachers' productivity."

"Ended the Get Reading! program."

"Scrapped the Centre for Quality Teaching."

"Cut all funding to NICTA, a peak ICT technology research company. Coincidentally, NICTA publicly criticised the Coalition's NBN only a few weeks earli..."

"Spent $245 million for religious chaplains in schools. Secular schools were stripped of the option of hiring a secular equivalent. No guarantees have ..."

"Started charging interest on HECS."

"Reduced the income threshold where graduates start to pay back HECS."

"Scrapped a loan scheme which helped apprentices buy the tools they need to learn and work."

"Paid a public relations company $97,000 for 3 weeks of work to help improve the Education Department's image, then refused to release the report that ..."

"Claimed the government will be $13.7 billion better off if the Mining Tax is scrapped, even though the scrapping the tax itself would actually result ..."

"Lied about NSW signing on with their independent schools deal."

"Proposed the conversion of one quarter of public schools to independent schools."

"Cut $3 billion in welfare for students, the elderly and families."

"Abandoned Gonski agreements with states and committed to 3 fewer years of Gonski than their pre-election promise."

"Cut $2.3 billion from higher education, and removed start-up scholarships (thereby significantly increasing the debt of the poorest students) and remo..."

"Withdrawn all Commonwealth funding for Commonwealth supported places at University."

"Proposed privatising HECS"

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