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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

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

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

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

C0118 True

7.0

"Deleted warnings of dangerous right-wing extremism in a senate motion about extremism, despite advice from ASIO that it is a serious and growing threa..."

CorruptionTerror

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

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

C0204 Partially True

6.0

"Introduced new laws which allow ASIO officers to spy on Australian citizens without getting approval from a judge or anyone independent, and without f..."

CorruptionCyberTerror

C0206 Partially True

6.5

"Lied by claiming that only a small range of law enforcement agencies will be able to access data under the metadata retention laws, but actually allow..."

CyberTerror

C0220 Partially True

6.5

"Coalition government lied by claiming that cops who abuse data retention powers will be punished, when hundreds of instances of abuse have gone unpuni..."

CorruptionCyberTerror

C0221 True

8.0

"Claimed that their data retention laws would be used mostly for terrorism and child abuse cases, when it actually is used mostly for drug offences."

CyberTerror

C0222 Partially True

5.5

"Proposed expanding the scope of data retention laws to include MAC addresses. Since MAC addresses are hard coded into each device's hardware, this wou..."

CyberTerror

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

C0258 Partially True

6.5

"Merged the Australian Federal Police into the Home Affairs department, allowing the minister to exert political influence on investigations."

CorruptionTerror

C0336 Partially True

6.0

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

EthicsTerror

C0363 Partially True

6.0

"Voted against changes which would reduce the wait times for medicinal cannabis from months down to hours. It currently takes up to 19 months to get ap..."

COVIDTerror

C0364 True

7.0

"Started drug testing welfare recipients without consulting legal, medical or drug experts. They simultaneously claim people will be selected randomly ..."

COVIDTerrorWelfare

C0367 Partially True

5.0

"Broke a promise to put in safeguards to prevent their data retention scheme from being abused. (Police illegally accessed the data within 2 weeks of r..."

CyberTerror

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

C0466 Partially True

5.0

"Proposed new broad powers for the Attorney-General so that the government can demand that telcos do unspecified 'things', which could include filterin..."

CyberTechTerror

C0467 Partially True

5.0

"Attempted to exempt telcos and law enforcement agencies from laws requiring users to be notified if their personal information has been breached."

CyberTerror

C0494 Partially True

5.0

"Spent $18.5 million on a facial recognition program to log and spy on every Australian, store social media photos and potentially conduct live trackin..."

CyberTechTerror

C0510 Misleading

4.0

"Did not attempt to conduct privacy impact assessments for 90% of their terror bills."

CyberTerror

C0536 Partially True

6.0

"Incorrectly claimed that the Lindt Cafe gunman was linked with ISIS."

InternationalTerror

C0544 Partially True

6.0

"Proposed new powers to banish Australians suspected of terrorism, possessing a 'thing' related to terrorism, downloading a single file related to terr..."

CorruptionEthicsTerror

C0545 Partially True

5.0

"Cut funding for an anti deaths in custody service, the creation of which was recommended by the 1991 Deaths in Custody Royal Commission."

IndigenousTerror

C0546 Partially True

5.0

"Granted the Immigration Department and local councils the power to search through the stored metadata of all citizens (and they won't need a warrant)."

CyberRefugeesTerror

C0557 True

6.0

"Failed to name the leader of ISIS on the day they sent 330 troops to a war against ISIS."

InternationalMilitaryTerror

C0561 Partially True

5.0

"Scrapped a public inquiry into law enforcement agencies access to journalists' telecommunications data, for the purposes of identifying journalists' s..."

CorruptionCyberTerror

C0566 Partially True

7.0

"Accidentally leaked the personal details of 31 world leaders, and chose not to notify them. They still claim your metadata will be safe though."

CorruptionCyberTech +1 more

C0575 Partially True

5.0

"Prosecuted a white hat hacker who exposed serious security vulnerabilities of some of the ISPs who store the sensitive data of all Australians under t..."

CorruptionCyberTech +1 more

C0582 True

6.0

"Exempted Gmail, Skype and Facebook from their data-retention scheme, thereby significantly reducing its effectiveness. They are exempted because they ..."

CyberTechTerror

C0586 Misleading

4.0

"Spent $17 million on a social media internet filter, allegedly to stop terrorist propaganda. The government believes that peaceful environmental prote..."

CyberTaxTech +1 more

C0628 True

7.0

"Tried to remove the requirement that telecommunications companies disclose how many times they voluntarily handed customer's data to law enforcement a..."

CyberTerror

C0639 Partially True

6.0

"Introduced laws to allow ASIO to secretly detain people without charge, without any contact to the outside world, and allow them to conduct 'coercive ..."

CorruptionTerror

C0640 Partially True

6.0

"Gave ASIO the power to read, delete and modify anything and everything on the entire internet, with only one warrant. No one can sue them if they use ..."

ABCCorruptionTerror

C0647 Misleading

4.0

"Raised the terror threat level to 'high', despite receiving no specific intelligence since claiming that the threat level 'has not changed'."

Terror

C0652 Partially True

6.0

"Removed the requirement for ASIO to get a warrant before using tracking devices."

CyberTechTerror

C0653 Partially True

5.0

"Legislated to permit ASIO operatives and associates to commit torture, and any other crime aside from murder, serious injury infliction, sexual assaul..."

EthicsTerror

C0656 Partially True

6.0

"Increased intelligence agency funding by $630 million, and fought for the power to stop Australians from travelling to Middle Eastern countries, even ..."

Terror

C0657 Partially True

6.0

"Scrapped the Countering Violent Extremists Program, which involved grants to community programs."

Terror

C0662 Partially True

4.0

"Rewrote counterterrorism laws so that Australian tourists returning from Syria and Iraq will be guilty of terrorism until they prove they are innocent..."

RefugeesTerror

C0666 Misleading

4.0

"Introduced mandatory metadata retention schemes for all internet providers. The government admits the changes are not necessary, and that there is no ..."

CyberTerror

C0742 Partially True

5.0

"Spent $480 million merging the Department of Immigration and Customs into Border Force, which won't have to follow public service or Defence Force law..."

RefugeesTerror

C0976 Partially True

6.0

"Incorrectly defined metadata as billing data only, when it actually includes email subject headings, location data, financial transaction details and ..."

CyberTerror

All terror Claims

"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..."

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

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

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

"Deleted warnings of dangerous right-wing extremism in a senate motion about extremism, despite advice from ASIO that it is a serious and growing threa..."

"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..."

"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 allow ASIO officers to spy on Australian citizens without getting approval from a judge or anyone independent, and without f..."

"Lied by claiming that only a small range of law enforcement agencies will be able to access data under the metadata retention laws, but actually allow..."

"Coalition government lied by claiming that cops who abuse data retention powers will be punished, when hundreds of instances of abuse have gone unpuni..."

"Claimed that their data retention laws would be used mostly for terrorism and child abuse cases, when it actually is used mostly for drug offences."

"Proposed expanding the scope of data retention laws to include MAC addresses. Since MAC addresses are hard coded into each device's hardware, this wou..."

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

"Merged the Australian Federal Police into the Home Affairs department, allowing the minister to exert political influence on investigations."

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

"Voted against changes which would reduce the wait times for medicinal cannabis from months down to hours. It currently takes up to 19 months to get ap..."

"Started drug testing welfare recipients without consulting legal, medical or drug experts. They simultaneously claim people will be selected randomly ..."

"Broke a promise to put in safeguards to prevent their data retention scheme from being abused. (Police illegally accessed the data within 2 weeks of r..."

"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."

"Proposed new broad powers for the Attorney-General so that the government can demand that telcos do unspecified 'things', which could include filterin..."

"Attempted to exempt telcos and law enforcement agencies from laws requiring users to be notified if their personal information has been breached."

"Spent $18.5 million on a facial recognition program to log and spy on every Australian, store social media photos and potentially conduct live trackin..."

"Did not attempt to conduct privacy impact assessments for 90% of their terror bills."

"Incorrectly claimed that the Lindt Cafe gunman was linked with ISIS."

"Proposed new powers to banish Australians suspected of terrorism, possessing a 'thing' related to terrorism, downloading a single file related to terr..."

"Cut funding for an anti deaths in custody service, the creation of which was recommended by the 1991 Deaths in Custody Royal Commission."

"Granted the Immigration Department and local councils the power to search through the stored metadata of all citizens (and they won't need a warrant)."

"Failed to name the leader of ISIS on the day they sent 330 troops to a war against ISIS."

"Scrapped a public inquiry into law enforcement agencies access to journalists' telecommunications data, for the purposes of identifying journalists' s..."

"Accidentally leaked the personal details of 31 world leaders, and chose not to notify them. They still claim your metadata will be safe though."

"Prosecuted a white hat hacker who exposed serious security vulnerabilities of some of the ISPs who store the sensitive data of all Australians under t..."

"Exempted Gmail, Skype and Facebook from their data-retention scheme, thereby significantly reducing its effectiveness. They are exempted because they ..."

"Spent $17 million on a social media internet filter, allegedly to stop terrorist propaganda. The government believes that peaceful environmental prote..."

"Tried to remove the requirement that telecommunications companies disclose how many times they voluntarily handed customer's data to law enforcement a..."

"Introduced laws to allow ASIO to secretly detain people without charge, without any contact to the outside world, and allow them to conduct 'coercive ..."

"Gave ASIO the power to read, delete and modify anything and everything on the entire internet, with only one warrant. No one can sue them if they use ..."

"Raised the terror threat level to 'high', despite receiving no specific intelligence since claiming that the threat level 'has not changed'."

"Removed the requirement for ASIO to get a warrant before using tracking devices."

"Legislated to permit ASIO operatives and associates to commit torture, and any other crime aside from murder, serious injury infliction, sexual assaul..."

"Increased intelligence agency funding by $630 million, and fought for the power to stop Australians from travelling to Middle Eastern countries, even ..."

"Scrapped the Countering Violent Extremists Program, which involved grants to community programs."

"Rewrote counterterrorism laws so that Australian tourists returning from Syria and Iraq will be guilty of terrorism until they prove they are innocent..."

"Introduced mandatory metadata retention schemes for all internet providers. The government admits the changes are not necessary, and that there is no ..."

"Spent $480 million merging the Department of Immigration and Customs into Border Force, which won't have to follow public service or Defence Force law..."

"Incorrectly defined metadata as billing data only, when it actually includes email subject headings, location data, financial transaction details and ..."

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