ethics Claims | PoliticalClaims.au

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

C0019 True

6.5

"Refused to pay compensation to a man whose family was accidentally killed by Australian air strikes. The department claims they were killed by somethi..."

EthicsInternationalMilitary

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

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

C0080 True

6.5

"Increased marketing spend for weapons exports from $1 million per year to $20 million."

EthicsInternationalMilitary +1 more

C0083 True

7.0

"Tabled law amendments which would result in charities losing their tax deductible status if they tweet in support of public protests, or display their..."

ClimateCyberDefamation +2 more

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

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

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

C0107 Partially True

5.0

"Introduced laws which are supposed to combat the rise in unconsentual sharing of nudes ("revenge porn"), but do not include any punishment for people ..."

CyberEthicsTech +1 more

C0110 Partially True

5.5

"Granted an unelected person investigative powers to force people to provide documents and answer questions or face imprisonment, without any of the us..."

CyberDefamationEthics +2 more

C0111 Partially True

5.5

"Granted an unelected official the power to mandate facial-recognition scans for adults who want to look at porn. They are not required to consider the..."

CorruptionCyberEthics

C0114 Partially True

4.0

"Used a meme to successfully distract the media and populace from the government's lack of action after a report revealed dozens of horrific war crimes..."

EthicsInternationalMilitary

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

C0134 Partially True

5.0

"Merged the Family Court with the Federal Circuit Court. This was done prior to hearing the recommendations of the Family Law Enquiry due one week late..."

EthicsSafetyTerror +1 more

C0172 Partially True

7.0

"Opposed a United Nations inquiry into racism and police brutality in the USA. This is in the aftermath of George Floyd's death, when American law enfo..."

EthicsInternationalTerror

C0186 Partially True

6.0

"Drafted the Religious Discrimination Bill which would allow employers religious schools to fire staff for being gay. They claim that making it possibl..."

Culture WarsDefamationEthics

C0203 Partially True

7.0

"Proposed issuing fines of up to $50,000 to innocent people not suspected of a crime if they don't hand over passwords for their personal devices to la..."

CorruptionCyberEthics +2 more

C0205 Partially True

6.5

"Introduced new laws which prevent someone suspected of a crime from choosing their own lawyer."

Ethics

C0214 False

2.0

"Committed crimes against humanity according to the International Criminal Court at the Hague."

EthicsInternationalRefugees

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

C0242 Partially True

6.0

"Granted ministers to power to use the military to quell domestic protests and industrial action, including shoot-to-kill powers when infrastructure is..."

ClimateCorruptionCulture Wars +4 more

C0254 True

5.0

"Introduced a law which allows the government to revoke the citizenship of whistleblowers, minor vandals and people who provide humanitarian assistance..."

CorruptionEthicsInternational

C0259 Partially True

6.5

"Voted against a United Nations motion for increased sexual education about women's health, opposition to female genital mutilation, and access to safe..."

Culture WarsEthicsInternational +1 more

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

C0275 Partially True

6.0

"Gave lawyers only 36 hours to respond to a proposal for legislation for a sex offender register. Under existing laws, consenting 16 year-olds sending ..."

CorruptionEthics

C0286 Partially True

6.5

"Spent $400,000 to help train the Myanmar military, who were known at the time to be guilty of ongoing genocide against the Rohingya people, and were l..."

CorruptionEthicsInternational +2 more

C0287 Partially True

7.0

"Punished an asylum seeker for reporting sexual assault committed by a government contractor, and lied about forwarding the complaint to the police."

CorruptionEthicsRefugees

C0294 Partially True

7.0

"Handcuffed a child not suspected of any crimes whilst preventing her from receiving urgently needed medical treatment."

EthicsRefugees

C0314 Partially True

6.0

"Refused a visa application on character grounds for a whistleblower who disclosed war crimes."

CorruptionEthicsInternational

C0315 Partially True

5.0

"Refused a temporary visa application for a 10 year-old boy to visit his father because the boy did not have a full time job."

EthicsRefugees

C0331 True

7.0

"Refused to publish the percentage of calls to the veterans' suicide help line which go unanswered, because that might negatively impact the brand of t..."

CorruptionEthicsMilitary +1 more

C0336 Partially True

6.0

"Proposed a law which would give police the power to imprison people for 14 days without arrest."

EthicsTerror

C0346 True

7.0

"Illegally detained Australian citizens on Christmas Island because they failed a character test."

EthicsRefugees

C0369 Partially True

6.0

"Approved the sale of weapons to a country accused of committing war crimes and killing 10,000 innocent civilians."

EthicsInternationalMilitary

C0375 True

8.0

"Prohibited the Aboriginal Legal Service from giving evidence at a legal enquiry into the loosening of racial hate-speech laws."

Culture WarsCyberDefamation +2 more

C0381 Partially True

7.0

"Refused to release a report into the death of a person on the government's Work for the Dole program."

CorruptionEthicsUnion +1 more

C0386 Partially True

6.0

"Excluded offshore detention centres when ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture."

EthicsRefugees

C0399 True

8.0

"Indefinitely detained someone based on information obtained through torture."

EthicsRefugeesTerror

C0419 Partially True

5.0

"Proposed a law which will allow Australians to be sentenced to life in prison, without being charged for a crime."

EthicsTerror

C0427 Partially True

6.0

"Locked up a dying New Zealander who wants to go to New Zealand. The man has had 20 heart attacks, and is close to death. He has finished serving a jai..."

EthicsInternationalRefugees

C0430 True

7.0

"Changed the operation of Australia's rape and domestic violence hotline so that counsellors no longer need three years of experience and a tertiary qu..."

EthicsSafetyWomen

C0448 True

8.0

"Cut all funding to Australia's only youth-led sexual health organisation."

COVIDEthicsYouth

C0457 Partially True

5.0

"Cut domestic violence leave for public servants."

EthicsSafetyWomen

C0458 Misleading

4.0

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

Culture WarsEducationEthics +1 more

C0462 True

6.0

"Requested in inquiry into an anti-bullying program which focused on fostering tolerance for queer youth."

Culture WarsEthicsYouth

C0468 Partially True

6.0

"Rejected an inquiry which recommended that citizens accused of tax fraud be treated as innocent until proven guilty."

CorruptionEconomyEthics +1 more

C0473 Partially True

5.0

"Refused to allow the family of a terminally ill man to temporarily enter Australia to see their son one last time before he died."

EthicsRefugees

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"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..."

"Refused to pay compensation to a man whose family was accidentally killed by Australian air strikes. The department claims they were killed by somethi..."

"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..."

"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..."

"Increased marketing spend for weapons exports from $1 million per year to $20 million."

"Tabled law amendments which would result in charities losing their tax deductible status if they tweet in support of public protests, or display their..."

"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..."

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

"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 laws which are supposed to combat the rise in unconsentual sharing of nudes ("revenge porn"), but do not include any punishment for people ..."

"Granted an unelected person investigative powers to force people to provide documents and answer questions or face imprisonment, without any of the us..."

"Granted an unelected official the power to mandate facial-recognition scans for adults who want to look at porn. They are not required to consider the..."

"Used a meme to successfully distract the media and populace from the government's lack of action after a report revealed dozens of horrific war crimes..."

"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."

"Merged the Family Court with the Federal Circuit Court. This was done prior to hearing the recommendations of the Family Law Enquiry due one week late..."

"Opposed a United Nations inquiry into racism and police brutality in the USA. This is in the aftermath of George Floyd's death, when American law enfo..."

"Drafted the Religious Discrimination Bill which would allow employers religious schools to fire staff for being gay. They claim that making it possibl..."

"Proposed issuing fines of up to $50,000 to innocent people not suspected of a crime if they don't hand over passwords for their personal devices to la..."

"Introduced new laws which prevent someone suspected of a crime from choosing their own lawyer."

"Committed crimes against humanity according to the International Criminal Court at the Hague."

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

"Granted ministers to power to use the military to quell domestic protests and industrial action, including shoot-to-kill powers when infrastructure is..."

"Introduced a law which allows the government to revoke the citizenship of whistleblowers, minor vandals and people who provide humanitarian assistance..."

"Voted against a United Nations motion for increased sexual education about women's health, opposition to female genital mutilation, and access to safe..."

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

"Gave lawyers only 36 hours to respond to a proposal for legislation for a sex offender register. Under existing laws, consenting 16 year-olds sending ..."

"Spent $400,000 to help train the Myanmar military, who were known at the time to be guilty of ongoing genocide against the Rohingya people, and were l..."

"Punished an asylum seeker for reporting sexual assault committed by a government contractor, and lied about forwarding the complaint to the police."

"Handcuffed a child not suspected of any crimes whilst preventing her from receiving urgently needed medical treatment."

"Refused a visa application on character grounds for a whistleblower who disclosed war crimes."

"Refused a temporary visa application for a 10 year-old boy to visit his father because the boy did not have a full time job."

"Refused to publish the percentage of calls to the veterans' suicide help line which go unanswered, because that might negatively impact the brand of t..."

"Proposed a law which would give police the power to imprison people for 14 days without arrest."

"Illegally detained Australian citizens on Christmas Island because they failed a character test."

"Approved the sale of weapons to a country accused of committing war crimes and killing 10,000 innocent civilians."

"Prohibited the Aboriginal Legal Service from giving evidence at a legal enquiry into the loosening of racial hate-speech laws."

"Refused to release a report into the death of a person on the government's Work for the Dole program."

"Excluded offshore detention centres when ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture."

"Indefinitely detained someone based on information obtained through torture."

"Proposed a law which will allow Australians to be sentenced to life in prison, without being charged for a crime."

"Locked up a dying New Zealander who wants to go to New Zealand. The man has had 20 heart attacks, and is close to death. He has finished serving a jai..."

"Changed the operation of Australia's rape and domestic violence hotline so that counsellors no longer need three years of experience and a tertiary qu..."

"Cut all funding to Australia's only youth-led sexual health organisation."

"Cut domestic violence leave for public servants."

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

"Requested in inquiry into an anti-bullying program which focused on fostering tolerance for queer youth."

"Rejected an inquiry which recommended that citizens accused of tax fraud be treated as innocent until proven guilty."

"Refused to allow the family of a terminally ill man to temporarily enter Australia to see their son one last time before he died."

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