WHAT WAS CLAIMED
A Freedom of Information (FoI) request has revealed the voice will propose Indigenous people only pay 50 per cent the rate of income tax.
OUR VERDICT
False. There is no such proposal in any FoI response related to the voice.
A supposed bombshell document released under Freedom of Information (FoI) laws has allegedly revealed several proposals set to be put forward by the Indigenous voice to parliament.
The claim is false. There is no such document and the claim appears to confuse two different strands of existing misinformation.
The claims are made in two Facebook posts (here and here), with the social media user promising more posts across the week.
The first post (archived) claims that those behind the voice are lying and their proposals have been revealed in documents released by the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) under Freedom of Information (FoI) laws.
“Now let’s look at what has been released,” the post reads.
“We will just do a couple at a time so everyone can see just how ‘modest’ the lying crying little Prime Ministers (sic) proposal really is.”
The post then details two alleged proposals: “Aboriginals” will pay only 50 per cent the rate of income tax and “Aboriginal groups” will have ownership of beaches and national parks and charge “non-Aboriginal people” to use them.
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