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This is the best summary I could come up with:
It was almost 12 years ago that the first formal fact check was published on the ABC News website, an analysis of a claim about Australia's debt by then-prime minister Kevin Rudd, which the fledgling fact-checking unit found to be accurate.
The intervening years saw growing public policy challenges brought about by climate change, the Black Summer bushfires, a global pandemic and the Voice to Parliament referendum triggering an epidemic of misinformation, supercharged by social media.
Even though both parties may have produced the largest debt or deficit in nominal terms, when accounting for the size of the economy and the passage of time, this was overshadowed by the numbers racked up during World War II.
Scott Morrison fell into the trap of making misleading comparisons when, as prime minister, he claimed the COVID-19 recession was 30 times larger than the global financial crisis, with experts telling Fact Check the two downturns were fundamentally different in nature and shouldn't be compared.
In the months leading up to the 2022 election, Mr Morrison and treasurer Josh Frydenberg made a series of claims to the effect that Australia had achieved greater reductions in carbon emissions than other comparable nations.
Heading the eponymously named Katter's Australian Party, the Queenslander declared that people were "entitled to their sexual proclivities, let there be a thousand blossoms bloom", before his demeanour darkened and he said he would spend no more time on the topic.
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