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RMIT ABC Fact Check
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RMIT ABC Fact Check determines the accuracy of claims by politicians, public figures, advocacy groups and institutions engaged in the public debate. It is a partnership between RMIT University and the ABC, combining academic excellence and the best of Australian journalism to inform the public through an independent, non-partisan voice.
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Fact Check: Have emissions fallen since 2005, and are they the lowest they've ever been, as Liberal MP Katie Allen says?
Liberal MP Katie Allen says the Government has "done a great job" at reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and claims they have fallen since 2005 to reach a record low in 2019.
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Fact Check: Is the Snowy Mountains Scheme the achievement of the Coalition or Labor?
On the 70th anniversary of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, politicians tussled over which side of politics should take credit for the biggest engineering feat in Australia's history.
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Fact Check Fact File: Labor and the Coalition are arguing about asylum seekers coming by plane. Here are the facts
Opposition spokeswoman for home affairs Kristina Keneally says the number of asylum seekers arriving in Australia by plane has blown out to 95,000 people in the last five years. But what's the real story?
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Fact Check: Linda Burney says Australia is the only first world nation with a colonial history that doesn't recognise its first people in its constitution. Is she correct?
Amid debate over Indigenous constitutional recognition, Labor Opposition spokeswoman for Indigenous Australians, Senator Linda Burney, claims that of all the first-world nations with a colonial past, Australia alone has failed to acknowledge its original
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Fact Check: Barnaby Joyce says the Nationals represent Australia's poorest electorates. Is he correct?
Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce claims that the Greens — followed by the Liberals, then Labor — represent Australia's richest people, while the Nationals look after the poorest.