# Claim table — Common Sense TikTok

| Claim | Evidence label |
|---|---|
| Australia electrification needs real generation and grid capacity. | Directionally supported. Official Australian data show electricity demand rose with cooling demand, electrification of heating, population growth and other factors. The practical question “where does power come from?” is legitimate. |
| Australia’s electricity still depends heavily on fossil fuels. | Supported. energy.gov.au says fossil fuels supplied 60.5% of total electricity generation in 2025, including coal at 42.7%, gas at 16.2% and oil at 1.7%; renewables supplied 39.5%. |
| Coal is still central but declining. | Supported with nuance. Australia’s official electricity page says coal-fired generation continued its long-term decline, while coal still supplied 42.7% of 2025 total generation. |
| Australia has major uranium resources but “we’re not allowed to mine/use it.” | Needs qualification. Australia is widely described as having very large uranium resources. The broad “not allowed” phrase is imprecise: uranium mining exists in some jurisdictions, but nuclear power generation has long faced federal/state legal and policy prohibitions/restrictions. Needs jurisdiction-specific detail. |
| Charging electric vehicles requires upstream generation. | Common-sense/technical point. EV charging does not come “from space”; it depends on generation, transmission, distribution and charging infrastructure. The source mix can change over time. |
| Canada has large oil reserves but high fuel taxes/prices. | Broadly directionally true but not quantified here. The transcript uses “bajillion” rhetorically; PBC did not run a full Canada fuel-tax comparison in this quick extraction pass. |
| Australia is economically dependent on China at about 30%. | Partly supported depending on metric. DFAT says China represented 25% of Australia’s total goods and services trade in 2025 and 29% of exports, close to the TikTok’s “30%” shorthand. |
| Australia lockdown / distance-check claims prove China controlled policy. | Not established in this pass. The TikTok combines COVID lockdown criticism with China-trade dependence; PBC preserved the claim but did not verify a causal link. |
| “It’s part of a plan.” | Opinion/speculation. Not verified as a factual claim. |