It may seem that the electoral campaign began some time ago, but Prime Minister Anthony Albanese officially called her this morning and the main matches gave her first speeches today.
Each game will work as hard as possible to win votes and false and exaggerated statements may appear.
Let’s go through the accuracy of five major claims made on Friday by Albanese, as well as opposition leader Peter Dutton and the leader of the green Adam Bandt.
Albanese: “Only work is acting on the cost of living … just a vote for work is a stronger vote”
The workforce has made a series of promises of living costs, including income tax cuts, expanding the aid scheme to buy for the first housing buyers, and
But the Liberal Party would not agree that work is the only one that acts on this issue. Has promised to reduce energy invoices and cut .
He has also agreed to coincide with the $ 8.5 billion that the workforce plans to inject in Medicare with and to provide more incentive payments for clinics to bulk bill.
Albanese: “Liberals promise to increase income tax for the 14 million Australian taxpayers and because Peter Dutton needs to find $ 600 billion to pay the nuclear reactors that will provide 4 percent of Australian’s energy needs in time 2040, that money must come from somewhere ‘
The coalition has said Due to kicking next year and would repeal the tax cut legislation, which technically means a tax incease.
In nuclear, Albanese’s figure seems to be citing comes from Smart Energy Council. He estimates that the cost of building seven nuclear reactors proposed by the coalition would be between $ 116 and $ 600 billion, and would provide 3.7 percent of the Australian energy combination in 2050.
The Liberal Party launched its own Suggest that its nuclear policy would cost $ 331 million, which says it is $ 263 billion less than renewable work transition costs.
Dutton’s nuclear plan costs are in dispute. The CSIRO and the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEM) have said that nuclear is twice more expensive than renewable energies.
Dutton: Australians are now paying on average 18 percent more for rent … and more than 30 percent more energy and gas.
The opposition leader is in the money here, but not at all.
Corelogic data confirms that since the Albanese government entered into power in May 2022, rents nationwide have increased around 18 percent.
Electricity prices actually fell 9.9 percent in the quarter of December 2024, and 25.2 percent in the 12 months until January 2025, but some homes faced invoices of up to 40 percent before this, according to the Australian Statistics Office (ABS).
Dutton: [Australians] They are losing hope for their future: 29,000 small companies have broken over the first mandate of the Albanese government
The data of the Safety and Investment Commission of Australia (ASIC) show around 28,900 “companies entered the external administration or had a designated controller” since the Albanese government took power.
But ASIC figures do not make the distinction that all these are “small companies.”
The ABS defines a small business such as having less than 20 employees or an annual aggregate turnover of less than $ 10 million.
Bandt: ‘The minority government comes. And with the main parties that offer as attractive as a dead fish, you can see why ‘
It is a possibility that no one wins the federal elections and Australia will have .
Some experts told SBS News that surveys indicate that a minority government seems quite likely this time.
But Bandt is calling this result before someone voted.
As for the reference of dead fish, he probably refers to his colleague where he held a dead salmon protest against the salmon cultivation of the Labor.
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