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Ridiculous claims, with receipts

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No evidence required Featured 2003

Five to 33

The Plan aimed to protect and conserve the biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem… green zones (no-take areas) 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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No evidence required Featured 2021

Land-based run-off

Land-based run-off remains the greatest contributor to poor water quality in the inshore areas of the Great Barrier Reef and is a major contributor to the current poor state of many inshore marine ecosystems.

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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No evidence required Featured 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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No evidence required Featured 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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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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No evidence required Featured 2023

Back on track

We support the new steps being put in place by the new management of Snowy 2.0 to put the important project back on track.

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

Chris Bowen The Guardian

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No evidence required Featured 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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No evidence required Featured 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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No evidence required Featured 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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$2 billion

The Federal Government has announced a $2 billion intervention in Australia's electricity supply debate, by expanding the Snowy Mountains hydro scheme.

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

Malcolm Turnbull ABC News

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No evidence required Featured 2023

All the benefits

The Victorian Government will deliver a comprehensive $2 billion package to ensure regional Victoria still receives 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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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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No evidence required Featured 2023

Three times the cost

What's become clear is that the cost of hosting these Games in 2026 is not the $2.6 billion which was budgeted and allocated.

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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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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A Games like no other

A games like no other, exactly what we promised.

The motto survived. The Games did not.

Daniel Andrews ABC News

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No evidence required Featured 2020

Two hotels

It is likely that a high proportion, approximately 99 per cent of current cases of COVID-19 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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No evidence required Featured 2020

Droplet and fomite

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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No evidence required Featured 2021

Everything possible

By vaccinating their children against COVID-19 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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Decreases transmission

The more people that we vaccinate and the higher that vaccination rate in that wider community, 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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If you’re well

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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No evidence required Featured 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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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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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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No evidence required Featured 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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No evidence required Featured 2026

How can you tell

You say, ‘Well, there’s good Muslims out there.’ How can you tell me there are good Muslims?

The slogan dropped the question mark. The interview kept the ISIS brides.

Pauline Hanson ABC News

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No evidence required Featured 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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No evidence required Featured 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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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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No evidence required Featured 2023

Colonisers of Judea

Demonstrators marched from Town Hall to the Opera House against the federal government’s endorsement of 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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Ten lies, one list

Albo Lied about: Immigration Levels • Energy Prices • Isis Brides coming back into the country • Medicare and Bulk Billing • Axed Stage 3 Tax Cuts • Changes to Capital Gains Tax • Voice to Parliament • Changes to negative gearing • $275 reduction in electricity prices • 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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No evidence required Featured 2025

Two meters, one slogan

GenCost is clear; renewables remain the cheapest new electricity, and firming them with battery storage, transmission, hydro and a small amount of gas peaking is the best way to keep the lights on and put downward pressure on bills.

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

Chris Bowen DCCEEW Ministers

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Those kinds of choices

People of a different race shouldn’t lose their rights. And queer people have already had a lot of issues with fighting for 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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Derangement Featured 2026

The oppression they’re putting us through

We’re just fighting against the oppression and racism that they’re putting us through and we’re making a change against all these racists and deranged people all throughout Australia.

Oppression arrived fully formed. The incident did not.

Pauline Hanson ABC News

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Puppet Featured 2026

Bought out by Gina, bought out by coal

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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