Fact Check: Tony Abbott not telling the full story on Alcoa and the carbon tax

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Fact Check: Tony Abbott not telling the full story on Alcoa and the carbon tax

14 Mar 2014

RMIT ABC Fact Check

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Carbon pricing Liberal Party of Australia Australia

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Fact Check: Tony Abbott not telling the full story on Alcoa and the carbon tax

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Prime Minister Tony Abbott claims the carbon tax is partly to blame for the closure of Alcoa's Point Henry aluminium smelter.
Verdict: Not the full story

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2014

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open

Post date:

26 May 2020

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