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Factcheck: Do Australians 'overwhelmingly support' gun control? Yes they do.
Yes, they do. Polling surveys consistently show that Australians support strengthened gun control.
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Factcheck: Angus Taylor’s claim that expanding Parliament “could cost $620 million” is misleading
Liberal leader Angus Taylor claims that expanding Parliament “could cost taxpayers more than $620 million”. This figure is misleading, relying on unclear assumptions and omitting important context.
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Factcheck: It's true. A 25% gas export tax could be a game-changer for the arts.
A "25% tax on gas export would make “17 billion dollars a year”, and, as ARIA-award-winning musician Montaigne claims, “if even a fraction of [that money] was directed to music and the arts, it could change the game”. They're right — if less than one fiftieth of the potential annual revenue from the 25% gas exports tax went to arts funding, that alone could be transformative.
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Factcheck: Will the cut in the fuel tax excise be inflationary? No, it will not be.
Economists and other inflation watchers are claiming that the cut in the fuel excise will be inflationary. This is not true, as this claim ignores everything else that is happening in the economy right now.
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Factcheck: Does the mining industry pay enough tax to fund medicare? Nice try, but no
In a new ad campaign, a mining lobby group claims that mining companies pay “enough tax to fund Medicare.” This is not true. Over the past ten years, the total cost of Medicare was $322 billion, while the mining industry paid $228 billion in tax, a gap of some $94 billion.
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Do Tim Wilson’s claims on the gas export tax stack up? No, they don’t.
Shadow Treasury spokesperson, Tim Wilson, was on Triple J’s Hack yesterday and he made some interesting statements and claims about gas tax. To set the record straight: royalties are not tax, Australia does not have a gas shortage, and beer drinkers do pay more, than gas companies pay the PRRT.
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Factcheck: The crossbench called it -- High Court rules curfew measures unconstitutional, again
On the 18th of March, the High Court released its judgment on EGH19 v Commonwealth of Australia, ruling that conditions requiring a curfew and ankle-bracelet monitoring on someone released from indefinite immigration detention were not compatible with the Constitution.
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Factcheck: Will a 25% gas export tax cause higher inflation? No, it will actually lower inflation
On Monday, journalists asked if a 25% export tax that helped pay for cost-of-living relief would “just increase demand and worsen inflation”. No, it will lower inflation.
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Factcheck: Yes, Ed Husic is right. Australia exports gas so cheaply that Japanese companies profit from on-selling our gas
The claim is true. Japanese companies are on-selling a lot of Australian LNG and making a lot of profit while doing it.
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Factcheck: The gas industry says an export tax will hurt Australians. The numbers say otherwise
The gas industry is clearly worried that a vast majority of Australians believe there should be a 25% tax on gas exports. After decades of playing Australian governments for fools, the industry deserves to be worried that Australians and politicians across multiple parties have realised that Big Gas is taking the piss.
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