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Questions tagged [australia]
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Are (former Australian Prime Minister) Tony Abbott's Indian Facebook likes fake?
Source
Hey Tony brah... Hahve [sic] you been buying Facebook likes? ...
Either thaht [sic] of [sic] you're really popular with 18-34 year olds
from New Delhi.
Are the Facebook 'likes' Abbott has received from India real, or fake? (I'm not…
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Did Abbott oppose Mandela, and play rugby in South Africa during apartheid?
From https://twitter.com/geeksrulz/status/515303326993235970 (53 retweets, 22 favorites)
#heyasio Some men fight for what is right, and achieve greatness. Others care only for themselves.
In his Uni days, Abbott referred to Mandela as a…
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Are yowies real?
According to several articles, yowies (i.e. wild, unidentified, hominids, reputed to live in Australia) have been allegedly observed by many.
For example, in this Herald Sun article about a man in Canberra: , it is stated "The creature, according…
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Is Australia the highest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases in the OECD?
The Australian earth hour web site claims that Australia is the highest greenhouse gas emitter per capita in the OECD. I've also heard this claim elsewhere.
DID YOU KNOW… Australia is the highest greenhouse gas polluter, on a
per capita basis,…
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For the same size, is real estate cheaper in Australia than Japan?
From an upvoted comment:
Size of an apartment isn't very good measure of how rich some is.
Let's say a house that would make you filthy rich in Tokyo might be
considered tiny rathole in Australia.
(It's comparing a capital city against a…
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Was there a recent spate of violence against Indians in Australia?
I recently came across a journal entry, written in December 2012, about racial violence in Australia.
The entry mentioned an incident against a woman targeted for singing in French. I assume this refers to an alleged incident against Fanny…
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Did Tony Abbott suggest that men might be better suited to leadership positions?
Apparently Australian politician, Tony Abbott suggested men are better at leadership in 1998:
He has said, and I quote, in a discussion about women being
under-represented in institutions of power in Australia, the
interviewer was a man called…
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Does the Australian Government provide more pension to refugees than the elderly?
A few years ago, a viral email in the USA falsely claimed that refugees received greater weekly welfare support than American retirees.
Snopes addressed it:
Claim: The U.S. government provides a much greater monthly allowance to refugees than to…
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Have greenhouse gas emissions from Australian red meat production fallen nearly 60% since 2005?
The BBC is reporting that Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) is reporting that "greenhouse gas emissions from the industry have fallen by almost 60% since 2005". This seems to be from the MLA State of the Industry Report 2019 which says:
a 57.6%…
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Are Australia's 5G radiation safety standards at least one hundred times laxer than of 6 other listed countries?
I saw this poster on the Facebook wall of a friend. The earliest I traced it was to Electrosensitivity Australia's Facebook wall where it was shared over 1700 times.
RADIATION LEVEL SAFETY STANDARDS
Luxembourg 20mW/m²
Switzerland 40mW/m²
China…
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Did GetUp! only spend 16% of donations on campaigns in 2019?
The conservative political lobby group Advance Australia has made a claim on their Facebook wall about progressive political lobby group GetUp!:
In 2019 GetUp! spent only 16 cents in the dollar of their donations on campaigning
Is this accurate?
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Are there 80,000 unoccupied residential properties in Melbourne, Australia?
There have been a number of claims that there are many unoccupied properties in Melbourne, Australia, and that this causes a meaningful difference in the price of rentals and purchase.
For example, the Herald Sun reports:
A MASSIVE number of…
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Does Australia label GMO foods?
From a facebook photo
What Labeling of US food looks like in Australia... Raw for beauty blog
The picture contains a purported list of ingredients for frosting in Australia:
INGREDIENTS: SUGAR, CORN SYRUP (GENETICALLY MODIFIED), [lots of other
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Could the Australian Aborigines have Descended from Three People?
My anthropology professor claimed that certain genetic simulations showed that the Australian Aborigines could have descended from a population of only one man and two women. Those three people and their offspring could have sustained a genetically…
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Are coal seams in Blue Mountains (Australia) burning?
The only source I found is a tweet that does not link to evidence, and I couldn't find reference to this with a quick search.
Coal seams in the Blue Mountains caught fire today, so it’s gone beyond the biomass above ground and into the geological…
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