Fact Check: Joe Hockey exaggerates difference between Labor, Coalition record on debt

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Fact Check: Joe Hockey exaggerates difference between Labor, Coalition record on debt

19 Aug 2013

RMIT ABC Fact Check

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Fact Check: Joe Hockey exaggerates difference between Labor, Coalition record on debt

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Opposition Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey claims the Labor Government has taken on large amounts of debt while the previous Coalition government left the nation with more assets than debt.
Verdict: Exaggeration

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2013

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26 May 2020

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