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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

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

C0247 True

7.0

"Appointed someone in their sixties as Minister for Youth."

Youth

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

C0351 Partially True

5.0

"Paid companies to hire young people for entry level jobs at far less than the minimum wage. There is evidence that companies replace real jobs with th..."

WelfareYouth

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

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

C0385 Partially True

6.0

"Changed Newstart eligibility so that 22 to 24 year-olds get Youth Allowance instead, which is $90 less per fortnight."

WelfareYouth

C0437 Partially True

6.0

"Proposed a government funded internship scheme where companies are paid lots of money to hire short term interns for $4 per hour with no award protect..."

UnionWelfareYouth

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

C0448 True

8.0

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

COVIDEthicsYouth

C0458 Misleading

4.0

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

Culture WarsEducationEthics +1 more

C0460 Partially True

6.0

"Claimed that scrapping negative gearing would simultaneously increase and decrease house prices."

EconomyYouth

C0462 True

6.0

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

Culture WarsEthicsYouth

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

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

C0659 Partially True

6.0

"Axed the Schools Business Community Partnership Brokers program, which has saved thousands of students from dropping out of school."

Youth

C0710 False

2.0

"Scrapped The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership."

Youth

C0726 Partially True

6.0

"Broke an election promise by cutting billions from school funding and committing to even less of the Gonski reforms than they did at the election."

Youth

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

C0744 True

6.0

"Scrapped Youth Connections, a program which helped disengaged youth reconnect with work and education."

EconomyYouth

C0747 Partially True

6.0

"Stopped giving under 25s Newstart. The Joint Committee on Human Rights said that this will violate our human rights obligations."

WelfareYouth

C0754 Partially True

6.0

"Ended the Get Reading! program."

EducationYouth

C0755 Partially True

5.0

"Scrapped the Centre for Quality Teaching."

EducationYouth

C0759 Partially True

5.0

"Cut welfare for young people, so they have to survive on $0 per week for 6 months, before being put on a welfare scheme which is below the poverty lin..."

WelfareYouth

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

C0761 True

6.0

"Scrapped the First Home Buyer's Account scheme, which provided sorely needed assistance for young people to buy homes."

EconomyYouth

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

C0861 Partially True

6.0

"Proposed a 'green army' comprised of young people paid less than half of minimum wage without normal workplace protections."

UnionWelfareYouth

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

C0924 Misleading

4.0

"Rewrote the school curriculum to make it more right wing. The previous curriculum was developed over many years with extensive consultation. The new c..."

CorruptionEthicsYouth

All youth Claims

"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..."

"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."

"Appointed someone in their sixties as Minister for Youth."

"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."

"Paid companies to hire young people for entry level jobs at far less than the minimum wage. There is evidence that companies replace real jobs with th..."

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

"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 Newstart eligibility so that 22 to 24 year-olds get Youth Allowance instead, which is $90 less per fortnight."

"Proposed a government funded internship scheme where companies are paid lots of money to hire short term interns for $4 per hour with no award protect..."

"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."

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

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

"Claimed that scrapping negative gearing would simultaneously increase and decrease house prices."

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

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

"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."

"Axed the Schools Business Community Partnership Brokers program, which has saved thousands of students from dropping out of school."

"Scrapped The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership."

"Broke an election promise by cutting billions from school funding and committing to even less of the Gonski reforms than they did at the election."

"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."

"Scrapped Youth Connections, a program which helped disengaged youth reconnect with work and education."

"Stopped giving under 25s Newstart. The Joint Committee on Human Rights said that this will violate our human rights obligations."

"Ended the Get Reading! program."

"Scrapped the Centre for Quality Teaching."

"Cut welfare for young people, so they have to survive on $0 per week for 6 months, before being put on a welfare scheme which is below the poverty lin..."

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

"Scrapped the First Home Buyer's Account scheme, which provided sorely needed assistance for young people to buy homes."

"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 ..."

"Proposed a 'green army' comprised of young people paid less than half of minimum wage without normal workplace protections."

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

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

"Rewrote the school curriculum to make it more right wing. The previous curriculum was developed over many years with extensive consultation. The new c..."

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