Fact Check: Joe Hockey's 'poor people' don't have cars, don't drive far claim, misleading

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Fact Check: Joe Hockey's 'poor people' don't have cars, don't drive far claim, misleading

15 Aug 2014

RMIT ABC Fact Check

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Fact Check: Joe Hockey's 'poor people' don't have cars, don't drive far claim, misleading

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Treasurer Joe Hockey claims higher income people pay the most fuel tax because poor people don't own cars or don't drive very far.
Verdict: Misleading

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2014

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open

Post date:

26 May 2020

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