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C0006 Partially True

6.0

"Spent $1,400 per person per day to feed asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea. This $82 million contract was paid to a high-risk shell company owned by P..."

RefugeesTax

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

C0062 Partially True

7.0

"Flew a mostly-empty plane home from Afghanistan as Kabul fell to the Taliban, leaving behind local translators who may be killed because they helped A..."

InternationalMilitaryRefugees

C0067 Partially True

5.0

"Slowed down visa processing for families from Afghanistan by years, resulting in the families of Australian being stuck in Kabul as it fell under Tali..."

InternationalRefugees

C0078 Partially True

6.0

"Failed to deliver any new assets or infrastructure 2 years on after a big announcement about drones patrolling our maritime border."

MilitaryRefugeesTax

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

C0178 Partially True

4.0

"Failed to stop the only boat that has posed a real and substantial risk to Australia's national security. The government chose to grant an exemption t..."

COVIDRefugees

C0200 Partially True

6.0

"Spent $96 million on administration costs for a single tender, to decide who to sell our own immigration visa system to. The government labelled this ..."

CorruptionPrivatisationRefugees +1 more

C0214 False

2.0

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

EthicsInternationalRefugees

C0218 True

9.0

"Asked gay asylum seekers whether they could simply stay in the closet in their home country to avoid persecution, in a legally unsound attempt to find..."

Refugees

C0243 Partially True

6.0

"Spent $30 million detaining a single asylum seeker family for a few months. It would have been cheaper to house them in a penthouse suite at the Four ..."

RefugeesTax

C0260 Partially True

6.0

"Cut funding for financial support for asylum seekers by $87 million."

Refugees

C0261 True

8.0

"Housed refugees close to large volumes of potentially deadly asbestos."

Refugees

C0268 Partially True

6.5

"Abandoned standard tender processes when awarding a $423 million contract to a company with $50k in funds, little experience, no phone number, no mail..."

CorruptionRefugeesTax

C0274 Partially True

6.0

"Declared that they will violate a new law, because they don't like it."

CorruptionRefugees

C0284 True

8.0

"Refused a Senate Order to release details about expensive contracts for security, health and infrastructure in their detention camps in PNG."

CorruptionRefugees

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

C0288 Partially True

7.0

"Spent $320,000 on legal fights denying asylum seekers urgent medical transfers to the mainland to treat life-threatening conditions."

RefugeesTax

C0294 Partially True

7.0

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

EthicsRefugees

C0303 Partially True

5.0

"Cancelled the citizenship of someone who's citizenship application was approved 18 years ago, who has lived in Australia for 41 years."

Refugees

C0311 True

9.0

"Lied about the Immigration Minister having no personal connection to someone who benefited from the direct intervention by the Immigration Minister in..."

CorruptionRefugees

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

C0324 Partially True

7.0

"Deliberately destroyed water supplies at a Manus Island detention centre, to force refugees out of the camp and into unfinished alternative sites."

Refugees

C0343 Partially True

7.0

"Kicked 100 asylum seekers into the street, taking their income away with no notice, after preventing them from working."

Refugees

C0346 True

7.0

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

EthicsRefugees

C0370 Partially True

6.0

"Rejected advice from a taskforce it set up, which provided recommendations to reduce foreign visa abuse, and then they claimed the 457 visa is too pro..."

Refugees

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

C0404 Partially True

6.0

"Increased the cost of a Visa for bands touring to Australia by 600%."

ArtsRefugees

C0424 True

7.0

"Decided that foreign born, adopted Australians can no longer use their Australian birth certificate as proof of Australian citizenship."

Refugees

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

C0432 True

8.0

"Claimed that refugees simultaneously are taking our jobs whilst also taking our welfare."

Refugees

C0434 Partially True

6.5

"Provided no workers compensation for Australian staff injured in offshore detention centres."

RefugeesUnion

C0441 Partially True

6.0

"Waited 22 hours before air-lifting a critically ill refugee to an adequately equipped hospital. He died the next day."

Refugees

C0442 True

7.0

"Rejected an offer from New Zealand to take 150 asylum seekers who are currently being illegally held in Australian detention centres."

Refugees

C0451 Partially True

5.0

"Lied about releasing all children from immigration detention."

Refugees

C0453 Partially True

6.0

"Prohibited people who owe money to Centrelink from leaving the country, regardless of how small the debt is or how soon they will return."

RefugeesWelfare

C0455 False

3.0

"Reneged on their promise to accept 12,000 refugees from Syria, instead accepting 26."

Refugees

C0456 True

6.0

"Spent $55 million to resettle just two refugees in Cambodia."

RefugeesTax

C0470 Partially True

6.0

"Spent $1.3 million on medals for Border Force staff"

RefugeesTax

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

C0477 Partially True

6.0

"Refused to give citizenship to eligible permanent residents, years after their refugee claims were accepted."

Refugees

C0480 Misleading

3.0

"Started regularly strip searching innocent females on Nauru, with only male staff present."

RefugeesWomen

C0482 Misleading

4.0

"Banned zoo visits for children in detention, deeming them 'inappropriate', and ruling that they must remain imprisoned instead."

Refugees

C0483 Misleading

4.0

"Made refugees work with deadly friable asbestos without any training and almost no equipment."

EthicsRefugeesUnion

C0493 Partially True

6.0

"Refused to give counselling to a pregnant woman prior to an abortion. The woman was raped whilst in our asylum seeker prisons."

RefugeesWomen

C0496 Partially True

5.0

"Forced an asylum seeker to pay for medicine to treat an injury they got when a government employee physically assaulted them."

Refugees

C0500 Partially True

5.0

"Lied about how many refugees we accept."

Refugees

C0502 True

8.0

"Cited 'the boats have stopped' as evidence that the economy is doing well."

EconomyRefugees

C0514 Partially True

4.0

"Illegally refused to offer treatment and support to an asylum seeker who was raped on Nauru. Minister Peter Dutton claimed the rape case was not excep..."

Refugees

All refugees Claims

"Spent $1,400 per person per day to feed asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea. This $82 million contract was paid to a high-risk shell company owned by P..."

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

"Flew a mostly-empty plane home from Afghanistan as Kabul fell to the Taliban, leaving behind local translators who may be killed because they helped A..."

"Slowed down visa processing for families from Afghanistan by years, resulting in the families of Australian being stuck in Kabul as it fell under Tali..."

"Failed to deliver any new assets or infrastructure 2 years on after a big announcement about drones patrolling our maritime border."

"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..."

"Failed to stop the only boat that has posed a real and substantial risk to Australia's national security. The government chose to grant an exemption t..."

"Spent $96 million on administration costs for a single tender, to decide who to sell our own immigration visa system to. The government labelled this ..."

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

"Asked gay asylum seekers whether they could simply stay in the closet in their home country to avoid persecution, in a legally unsound attempt to find..."

"Spent $30 million detaining a single asylum seeker family for a few months. It would have been cheaper to house them in a penthouse suite at the Four ..."

"Cut funding for financial support for asylum seekers by $87 million."

"Housed refugees close to large volumes of potentially deadly asbestos."

"Abandoned standard tender processes when awarding a $423 million contract to a company with $50k in funds, little experience, no phone number, no mail..."

"Declared that they will violate a new law, because they don't like it."

"Refused a Senate Order to release details about expensive contracts for security, health and infrastructure in their detention camps in PNG."

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

"Spent $320,000 on legal fights denying asylum seekers urgent medical transfers to the mainland to treat life-threatening conditions."

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

"Cancelled the citizenship of someone who's citizenship application was approved 18 years ago, who has lived in Australia for 41 years."

"Lied about the Immigration Minister having no personal connection to someone who benefited from the direct intervention by the Immigration Minister in..."

"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."

"Deliberately destroyed water supplies at a Manus Island detention centre, to force refugees out of the camp and into unfinished alternative sites."

"Kicked 100 asylum seekers into the street, taking their income away with no notice, after preventing them from working."

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

"Rejected advice from a taskforce it set up, which provided recommendations to reduce foreign visa abuse, and then they claimed the 457 visa is too pro..."

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

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

"Increased the cost of a Visa for bands touring to Australia by 600%."

"Decided that foreign born, adopted Australians can no longer use their Australian birth certificate as proof of Australian citizenship."

"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..."

"Claimed that refugees simultaneously are taking our jobs whilst also taking our welfare."

"Provided no workers compensation for Australian staff injured in offshore detention centres."

"Waited 22 hours before air-lifting a critically ill refugee to an adequately equipped hospital. He died the next day."

"Rejected an offer from New Zealand to take 150 asylum seekers who are currently being illegally held in Australian detention centres."

"Lied about releasing all children from immigration detention."

"Prohibited people who owe money to Centrelink from leaving the country, regardless of how small the debt is or how soon they will return."

"Reneged on their promise to accept 12,000 refugees from Syria, instead accepting 26."

"Spent $55 million to resettle just two refugees in Cambodia."

"Spent $1.3 million on medals for Border Force staff"

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

"Refused to give citizenship to eligible permanent residents, years after their refugee claims were accepted."

"Started regularly strip searching innocent females on Nauru, with only male staff present."

"Banned zoo visits for children in detention, deeming them 'inappropriate', and ruling that they must remain imprisoned instead."

"Made refugees work with deadly friable asbestos without any training and almost no equipment."

"Refused to give counselling to a pregnant woman prior to an abortion. The woman was raped whilst in our asylum seeker prisons."

"Forced an asylum seeker to pay for medicine to treat an injury they got when a government employee physically assaulted them."

"Lied about how many refugees we accept."

"Cited 'the boats have stopped' as evidence that the economy is doing well."

"Illegally refused to offer treatment and support to an asylum seeker who was raped on Nauru. Minister Peter Dutton claimed the rape case was not excep..."

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