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Liberal Party Lie Collector
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We fact check big claims by the Liberal Party of Australia and share collector cards exposing their lies.

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(Tangent: Just in case you're not across why that's nonsense, the Paris agreement calls for keeping global warming "well below" 2°C above pre-industrial levels. But Liberal policy (as analysed in 2022) is more aligned with a (literally) disastrous +3°C warming.)

www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-does...
Chart showing Australian GHG emissions - historical, and modelling of those implied by the policies of various political parties, along with the warming that would result if the whole world took similar action. Liberal Party policy implied almost 3° of warming, Labor in the upper end of 2°, Teal independents just below 1.5° and Greens significantly lower than the Teals.
November 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Antony Green has called Dickson for Labor:
Peter Dutton projected to lose his seat on the edge of Brisbane, with a swing of almost 10% in a seat he held with a margin of 1.7%.

#LiesOut #auspol #ausvotes #AusVotes2025
Peter Dutton frowning
May 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Antony Green has called the election:
A Labor win, majority or minority not yet clear.

"I can't see how the coalition could win from here."

Thank you Australia for voting the #LiesOut!

#auspol #ausvotes #AusVotes2025
Antony Green looking very excited
May 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Yep, good question.
Covers 1/2 of Queensland, none of it coastal.
Voted One Nation at #2 a few times in the past.
Fully Koolaid-ed on the conservative ideology it seems.
Image of boundaries of Maranoa federal division in Queensland.
May 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Hey Aussies! 🇦🇺🗳️

If you were heading into the polling booth with a pack of lies in your head, you'd want to know about it, right?

Well, you're gonna want to watch this! 👇

#auspol #ausvotes #AusVotes2025 #factcheck
#CostOfLiving #energy #nuclear #immigration #renewables #business #housing #Liberal
May 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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April 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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All of our content is under a Creative Commons license, which means you're free to copy it and share it elsewhere. (But not to create derivatives or use them commercially.)

🧵 Cards #7 + #8 out of 8
Liberal Lies collector card #7. The Lie: "We have a $5 billion plan to create 500,000 new homes". The Facts: They have no plan to build homes. Their policy is a $5b fund for infrastructure grants and loans that would increase public infrastructure spending by just 2.3% a year. Liberal Lies collector card #8. The Lie: "Our energy plan using nuclear will cost 44% less" The Facts: Their modelling excludes most of the cost, with only about 16% of the cost of nuclear plants being included in the years of the modelling window.
April 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Here you can find all 8 of our collector cards in one thread, which you can point your friends to, or 📌 so you can find them quickly to grab one when you need it.

🧵 Cards #5 + #6 out of 8
Liberal Lies collector card #5. The Cheery-Pick: "27,000 small businesses have shut their doors". The Whole Truth: There's more businesses than ever. High numbers of businesses start and close every year. Liberal Lies collector card #6. The Lie: "Renewables are driving up power bills". The Facts: Coal and gas pries have doubled, which pushed up wholesale and then retail electricity prices".
April 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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These aren't just little mistakes, but core issues where the Liberal Party is aiming to deceive people to try to sway their vote.

🧵 Cards #3 + #4 out of 8
Liberal Lies collector card #3. The Lie: "Labor has lost control of immigration!" The Facts: Pandemic caused a crash, then a spike. Migration level is back to normal. Liberal Lies collector card #4. The Lie: "This renewables-only grid plan is ... 😱". The Facts: No one is planning "renewables-only".
April 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Hey Australia! 🇦🇺🗳️
We've spent 4 months collecting a WHOLE PACK OF LIES the Liberal Party of Australia is using to fool Aussies into voting for them

🧵 Cards #1 + #2 out of 8

#auspol #ausvotes #AusVotes2025 #factcheck #Dutton #CostOfLiving #energy #nuclear #immigration #renewables #business #housing
Liberal Lies collector card #1. The Lie: "Labor's cost of living crisis!" The Facts: Liberals left the economy with the highest inflation in over 30 years. Liberal Lies collector card #2. The Lie: "No nuclear power means Australia is lagging behind!" The Facts: Half the OECD don't have nuclear power, most of the other half have reduced it this century.
April 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Here's the video for Liberal Lies Collector Card #8:
☢️ Our Energy Plan Using Nuclear Will Cost 44% Less ☢️

The truth?
Their modelling excludes MOST of the cost of nuclear plants!

🔄 Repost to share the truth
☝️ See thread for extra details
➕ Follow for more!

#auspol #AusVotes2025 #factcheck #Dutton
April 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Here's a video of Liberal Lies Collector Card #1:
"Labor's Cost of Living Crisis!"

The truth:
The inflation that caused the crisis peaked during the Liberal's last government.

🔄 Repost to share the truth
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#auspol #AusVotes2025 #factcheck #CostOfLiving #Dutton
April 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Here's the video for Liberal Lies Collector Card #7
"We have a $5 BILLION plan to create 500k new homes"

How many homes will their policy build?
ZERO! 😲

🔄 Repost to share the truth
☝️ See thread for extra details
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#auspol #AusVotes2025 #factcheck #housing #Dutton
April 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Here's the video for Liberal Lies Collector Card #6:
"Renewables are driving up power bills"

The Truth?
Fossil fuel prices have exploded!

🔄 Repost to share the truth
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☝️ See thread for extra details

#auspol #AusVotes2025 #factcheck #energy #renewables #nuclear #Dutton #Albanese
April 21, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Here's the video for Liberal Lies Collector Card #5:
"27,000 small businesses have shut their doors"

#auspol #auspolitics #AusVotes2025 #ausvotes #factcheck #Dutton
April 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Here's the video for Liberal Lies #4
"The renewables-only grid plan is ... 😱"

It might be scary... if it were true! 🤨

#auspol #AusVotes2025 #factcheck #energy #renewables
April 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Dutton also said at today's Liberal Party launch, "you knew nothing of [increased migration levels] before the PM was elected".

However, the immigration level in the final half-year of the coalition's last term ALREADY had immigration 50% above historical levels. 👀

#auspol #AusVotes2025 #factcheck
Chart of immigration levels in Australia, colour-coded to coalition (blue) and Labor (red) government. A green circle highlights the final period of coalition government, where immigration was 50% above the historical average of %0.5 of the population per half year.
April 13, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Here's Liberal Lie #3 on video:
"Labor Has Lost Control Of Immigration!"

Full details in the thread above
April 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Liberal Lies Collector Card #8:
☢️ "Our Energy Plan Using Nuclear Will Cost 44% Less" ☢️

The truth?
Their modelling excludes MOST of the cost of nuclear plants!

🔄 Repost to share the truth
💾 Save now to quickly share
👇 See thread for extra details
➕ Follow for more!

#auspol #factcheck #AusVotes2025
An imitation collector card, with the brand "Australian Liberal Party Lies". This is #8. The tagline is "Collect them all ... so you don't elect them all!" The Lie section says: “Our energy plan using nuclear will cost 44% less”. The Facts section says: “Their modelling excludes most of the cost, because nuclear arrives late in the 25 years modelled, and the cost is spread over the 50 years after their 20 year construction. It only includes about 16% of the cost of nuclear plants! ” A stacked bar chart shows the annual electricity production in TWh from renewable (in green), fossil (in charcoal), and nuclear (in red) sources. Nuclear plants can be seen only generating small amounts of energy at 2040, and significant amounts of energy from 2045 onwards. The large bar at the right, with a timeframe of “Later”, is labelled “The other 5 / 6ths of the nuclear lifetime / costs not in the model”. A small yellow line above the 2051 bar shows the energy expected from the AEMO Step Change scenario. A note says the Liberal’s nuclear plan “produces 25% less energy than AEMO’s plan they’re comparing to”. Footnotes refer to the data being “TWh annual electricity production, ‘Nuclear alternative – Progressive’”, and the source as Frontier Economics. The graphic is licensed as Creative Commons, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives.
March 30, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Here's a video version of Liberal Lies Collector Card #2:
"No Nuclear Power Means Australia Is Lagging Behind!"

Are you lagging behind by not having something that most countries like you don't have or are reducing? 🤔

#auspol #AusVotes2025 #factcheck #Budget25
March 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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NEW RELEASE! - March 2025
Liberal Lies Collector Card #7:
"We have a $5 BILLION plan to create 500k new homes"

How many homes will their policy build?
ZERO! 😲

🔄 Repost to share the truth
💾 Save now to quickly share
👇 See thread for extra details
➕ Follow for more!

#auspol #factcheck #AusVotes2025
An imitation collector card, with the brand "Australian Liberal Party Lies". This is #7. The tagline is "Collect them all ... so you don't elect them all!" The Lie section says: “We have a $5 billion plan to create 500,000 new homes”. The Facts section says: “The have no plan to build homes. Their policy is: A $5B fund; grants & loans to companies & governments for infrastructure; Increasing spending on public infrastructure by just 2.3%. ” A stacked bar chart shows the $43B was spent on roads and utilities infrastructure in FY 2023/24, next to the $1B per year the Liberal policy is expected to spend on infrastructure. Footnotes refer to the data being “Engineering work done for the public section” and the source as ABS via The Australia Institute. An easter egg footnote says “A property development lobby group claims this would result in 500,000 new homes”. The graphic is licensed as Creative Commons, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives.
March 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Hey folks! Are you interested in seeing the video versions of our cards that we've been posting on other platforms?
#auspol #AusVotes2025 #factcheck
March 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Want more detail on what's driving electricity prices?
You can read ACCC's inquiry into the NEM, which reports to federal government every 6 months.

Liberal MPs have been told the real driver of power price increases.
Continuing to misrepresent it is a choice.

www.accc.gov.au/system/files...
A section of the ACCC's 'Inquiry into the National Electricity Market report - December 2024'. The section title is 'Costs of supply and retail margins have increased overall, but varied greatly between retailers', and a sentence is highlighted which reads: "The biggest driver of this increase [in the costs of supplying retail electricity] was higher wholesale costs reflecting the delayed impact of the volatile energy market events in 2022."
March 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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IT'S HERE!
Liberal Lies Collector Card #6:
"Renewables are driving up power bills"

The Truth?
Electricity is expensive because of surging fossil fuel prices.

🔄 Repost to share the truth
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👇 See thread for extra details
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#auspol #factcheck #AusVotes2025
An imitation collector card, with the brand "Australian Liberal Party Lies". This is #6. The tagline is "Collect them all ... so you don't elect them all!" The Lie section says: “Renewables are driving up power bills”. The Facts section says: “Coal and gas prices have DOUBLED, which pushed up wholesale and then retail electricity prices”. A series of small bar charts illustrate changes in relevant data between 2020/21 and 2022/23/24, showing coal prices increasing 135%, gas prices 112%, wholesale electricity prices 104%, and the percentage of renewables having increased 30%. Retail prices are shown in a larger chart to have increased 24% from 2020/21/22 to 2023/24. An arrow links wholesale prices to retail prices with the label “Lag”. Footnotes refer to the sources of the data as AER, ABS, Open Electricity, YCharts and OFX. The graphic is licensed as Creative Commons, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives.
March 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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This election looks like it'll be about:
1. Cost of living (+ the wider economy)
2. Energy

Liberals have little policy around either, but they're banking on swaying votes by lying to people about what's going on, and what their plans are.
(With support from the Nationals, AND Murdoch media! 🤯)
Photo of Peter Dutton in creepy lighting with the Liberal 2025 campaign motto "Back On Track" written in a dripping blood font
February 23, 2025 at 4:34 AM