PolitiFact – Fact Checker finds Coalition’s carbon price claims are false
Coalition’s $15b carbon price claim ‘mostly false’ (includes videos) The Age, July 15, 2013 Peter Martin Economics correspondent What’s in a fact check?
Peter Martin explains how Fairfax’s fact-checking collaboration with PolitiFact, and reports back on its first target, the Coalition’s $15b carbon pricing claim.
The Coalition’s claim that moving swiftly to a floating carbon price would cost the budget up to $15 billion has been rated “mostly false” by the fact-checking service PolitiFact, which partners with Fairfax Media from Monday.
During the 40 days leading up to the election, PolitiFact will publish a checked fact a day on The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age websites.
The claim the change would mean “a black hole of up to $15 billion in the budget” was made by shadow treasurer Joe Hockey on the Channel Seven Sunrise program on Friday, June 28, two days after Kevin Rudd retook the Labor Party leadership…….More details are available at politifact.com.au. http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/coalitions-15b-carbon-price-claim-mostly-false-20130714-2py81.html#ixzz2ZA7evzxO
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