Two truths and a lie was so popular last week, I thought I’d do it again!

Here are three headlines from the past week. But one is fake. Which one? That’s for you to guess!

The answer is, like, in the tidbit.

The quote
"I think the Prime Minister is at a point where if he realises the Voice is going down, and that’s what all of the polling is indicating at the moment, then he should make a decision that’s in our country’s best interest and say ‘Look, I’m going to call it off because it is just going to divide the country down the middle'.” – Opposition Leader Peter Dutton speaking to 2GB.

The stat
22%
The number of Australian businesses that experienced a cyber security attack during the 2021-22 financial year, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. This is compared to 8% the previous year.

Today in history
2016: The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in a referendum. It would take over three and a half years of negotiations and two more Prime Ministers before Brexit actually took effect in January 2020.

Some headlines from this morning:

Melbourne and Sydney have returned to the top of the annual 'most liveable city' rankings after a dip during the pandemic.

This year's list, compiled by The Economist's Intelligence Unit, rated Melbourne and Sydney as third and fourth. Vienna and Copenhagen took out the two top spots.

Other Australian cities also rated highly, with Perth and Adelaide equal 12th and Brisbane 16th. Perth and Adelaide were among the biggest improvers compared to last year.

What is liveability?
The Economist's liveability ranking system scores cities on five categories:

Melbourne and Sydney
Melbourne and Sydney scored very highly in all five categories.

Both cities received a perfect score (100) for health care, education and infrastructure and 95 out of 100 for stability.

Melbourne edged out Sydney with a slightly higher score for culture and environment (95.8 compared to 94.4).

Top cities
- Vienna
- Copenhagen
- Melbourne
- Sydney
- Vancouver
- Zurich
- Calgary
- Geneva
- Toronto
- Osaka
- Auckland

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A new dashboard launched in Australia this week will make tracking deaths in custody more transparent.

Real-time updates will report deaths within Australian prisons, youth detention centres, and police custody.

The dashboard provides information about the deceased, including age, sex, and if they were a First Nations person.

Real-time reporting:
Once the family of the deceased are notified, initial details of the incident will be provided in real-time, and then verified on a quarterly and annual basis.

Previous reporting on deaths in custody was updated every three months.

Deaths in custody:
The deaths in custody register was established in 1992, following a recommendation by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

Since the Royal Commission, 547 First Nations people have died in custody.

New data from the Federal Productivity Commission found that First Nations deaths in custody reached record highs in the 2021/22 financial year.

Government comments:
The Federal Government called the number of First Nations deaths in custody a "national shame".

Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney said the real-time register would help address the "lack of trusted information" publicly available following a death in custody.

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A rare all-white whale has been spotted off the coast of Queensland.

The whale was heading north when it was located near the Whitsundays on the central Queensland coast. The sighting has spurred speculation that the whale could be Migaloo, a white whale who hasn’t been seen since 2020.

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1. An Australian MP has said he’ll “get on his knees” to beg Taylor Swift to perform her Eras Tour in Queensland

This is true.

Liberal MP Andrew Wallace said after years of driving his daughters around listening to Taylor Swift he was an "absolute convert".

“Taylor, I’m asking you, begging you, I’m pleading with you. I’ll get down on my knees if I have to. Please come to Queensland. There are so many Swiftie fans in Queensland. I am one of them," he said.

He has also started a petition.

2. Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have agreed to hold a cage fight

This is true.

Elon Musk tweeted he would be “up for a cage fight” with the CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg posted a screenshot of the message saying “send me location” (and then confirmed he was being serious, as did Musk). Musk said the location should be Vegas Octagon.

3. A new study from Yale University has found that Australians use the word “like” more frequently than any other English-speaking country

This is not true.