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Ridiculous claims, with receipts

Search the hall, or filter by person, room, year, and loudness. Rooms are health, climate, money, and speech. The number is how far the slogan travelled, not a verdict. Every live card has an original source and a file in git.

Climate 9 2010

No carbon tax

There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

The sentence was no. Then she said the fixed price worked like a tax.

Julia Gillard The Sydney Morning Herald

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Climate 8 2025

Sea levels are rising

Low-lying inhabited islands will be lost to sea level rise.

Twenty-two centimetres in a century. The atolls kept a different ledger.

Torres Strait Regional Authority Torres Strait Regional Authority

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Climate 8 2024

Ocean acidification

Oceans around Australia are becoming more acidic.

The name is acid. The number is still eight.

Bureau of Meteorology Bureau of Meteorology

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Climate 8 2003

Green zones to 33 per cent

Green zones where fishing is not allowed expanded from five per cent of the Marine Park to 33 per cent.

A third of the park went quiet. The cover still tracked the storms.

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

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Climate 8 2021

Land-based run-off is the greatest contributor

Land-based run-off remains the greatest contributor to poor water quality on the inshore Reef.

The Authority ranked the farms. The Senate heard the cyclones.

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

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Climate 8 2024

The greatest threat

Climate change remains the greatest threat to the Great Barrier Reef.

Greatest is a ranking. The cover series kept naming cyclones and starfish.

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

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Climate 9 2012

50 per cent

Coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef has declined by 50 per cent in just 27 years.

The paper that minted the 50 also named the storms. The slogan kept the fraction.

CSIRO CSIRO

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Climate 8 2024

Outlook of future deterioration

The overall outlook for the Great Barrier Reef remains one of future deterioration due largely to climate change.

The outlook was a one-way arrow. The cover series was a bounce.

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

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Money 8 2023

Back on track

New management will put Snowy 2.0 back on track.

On track was a reset. The auditor could not find the rails.

Chris Bowen The Guardian

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Climate 8 2023

Three million homes for a week

Snowy 2.0 is a critical project to Australia’s energy future – providing enough renewable energy and storage to power three million homes for a week.

The house-count grew. The tank did not. The week assumes a full dam and an empty grid.

Chris Bowen The Guardian

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Climate 8 2017

500,000 homes

The project will act as a giant 2,000 megawatt battery in the centre of the National Energy Market, providing enough power for 500,000 homes.

A megawatt is a tap. A week of homes is a tank. The slogan used both as one number.

Malcolm Turnbull ABC News

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Money 8 2017

At least four years

The project would take at least four years to complete.

Four years from a feasibility study. The mountain took a decade and did not file a finish date the auditor could use.

Malcolm Turnbull The Guardian

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Money 9 2017

$2 billion

A $2 billion expansion of the Snowy Mountains hydro scheme.

The first number was a thought. The mountain kept the invoice.

Malcolm Turnbull ABC News

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Money 8 2023

All the benefits

Regional Victoria will still receive all the benefits that would have been facilitated by the Games.

All the benefits. The committee found a plan. Homes Victoria counted upgrades.

Jacinta Allan Premier of Victoria

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Money 9 2023

Hospitals and schools

I will not take money out of hospitals and schools to host an event that is three times the cost estimated and budgeted for last year.

The money that did leave was $589 million. Glasgow ran on the settlement.

Daniel Andrews ABC News

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Money 9 2023

Three times the cost

The cost of hosting these Games is three times the cost estimated and budgeted.

They signed the low number. They cancelled on the high one. The auditor sat in the middle.

Daniel Andrews ABC News

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Money 8 2022

More than $3 billion

It is estimated the 2026 Commonwealth Games will contribute more than $3 billion to Victoria’s economy.

The benefit was a range. The slogan was a floor.

Daniel Andrews Premier of Victoria

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Health 8 2020

Two hotels

Approximately 99 per cent of current cases in Victoria have arisen from Rydges or Stamford.

The wall was a hotel. The genome counted two of them.

Daniel Andrews ABC News

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Health 8 2020

Droplet and fomite spread

Transmission of COVID-19 is primarily through droplet and fomite spread.

Gravity in a few seconds. Then the outbreaks that did not fall.

Safe Airway Society Medical Journal of Australia

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Health 8 2021

Everything possible to keep their child safe

By vaccinating their children they have done everything possible to keep their child safe from this virus.

Everything possible. Safe from this virus. The trial never wrote that sentence.

Greg Hunt Prime Minister and Minister for Health

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Health 8 2021

Decreases transmission

The more people we vaccinate, it decreases transmission in the community.

The TGA listed transmission under unknowns. The minister listed it as the switch.

Greg Hunt Department of Health

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Health 9 2020

If you’re well, probably no

If you're well, and are not caring for a person with COVID-19, the answer is probably no.

March: probably no. July: a scarf, or a $200 fine. Same virus. Same verb.

Daniel Andrews ABC News

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Health 9 2021

Short, sharp circuit-breaker

Victoria will enter a short, sharp circuit-breaker lockdown for five days… to avoid a longer lockdown in the future.

Five days, to avoid a longer one. The city clocked 262.

Daniel Andrews ABC News

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Health 10 2020

1.5 metres

To stop the spread, stay 1.5m from others.

The tape measure was for droplets. The slogan was for the virus.

Greg Hunt Department of Health

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Health 9 2021

95 per cent

The Pfizer vaccine will prevent symptomatic COVID-19 in 95 per cent of recipients.

The trial counted symptoms. The slogan counted immunity. Transmission was listed under unknowns.

Therapeutic Goods Administration The Sydney Morning Herald

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Money 9 2014

I make that promise, Peter

I make that promise, Peter, to every single Victorian.

Every single Victorian. Then the levies arrived with different names.

Daniel Andrews Seven News

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Money 7 2026

Two dollars a day

Gina Rinehart was pushing for Australian workers to work for two dollars a day.

The 2012 sentence was about African wages. The 2026 slogan put it on an Australian payslip.

Gina Rinehart ABC News

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Money 7 2025

On time, on budget

SRL East was running on time and on budget.

The independent evaluator had low confidence in the number. The minister had high confidence in the slogan.

Harriet Shing ABC News

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Speech 7 2025

Not a publicity stunt

I don't think anyone would risk their life for a publicity stunt.

The siege-breaking cargo was 250 kilos of rice and 100 of flour. The cameras were heavier.

Greta Thunberg BBC News

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Speech 6 2023

Colonisers of Judea

Israel’s settler-colonial occupation.

Coloniser usually means you arrived from somewhere else. Judea is the name of the place they are accused of arriving in.

Palestine Action Group Sydney Honi Soit

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Speech 7 2026

Albo Lied

Albo Lied about immigration, energy prices, $275 bills and falling off a stage.

A $275 promise, a tax backflip, and a trip over a step. Same label for all three.

Anthony Albanese Pauline Hanson’s One Nation

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Climate 8 2025

Cheapest new electricity

Renewables remain the cheapest new electricity.

GenCost is a new-build number. The fridge is a different meter.

Chris Bowen DCCEEW Ministers

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Speech 5 2026

Rights will be taken

People of a different race shouldn’t lose their rights, and if that gets taken away too, that’s not OK.

The rights were going. The bill was not produced.

Pauline Hanson The Guardian

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Speech 5 2026

Bought out by Gina

I think she’s bought out by Gina Rinehart, she’s bought out by coal industries.

A puppet usually has strings. This one came with a rally and a first name.

Pauline Hanson The Guardian

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