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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: Will the medevac bill allow healthy refugees on Nauru and Manus to come to Australia?
Immigration Minister David Coleman has criticised the so-called "medevac bill", claiming the legislation requires a "very, very low threshold" for bringing refugees and asylum seekers to Australia from Manus Island and Nauru.
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Fact Check: By sending asylum seekers to Nauru and Manus, is Australia guilty of crimes against humanity?
Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has condemned successive Australian governments for failing to meet their obligations under international law to asylum seekers and refugees who arrive by sea, and says the Government has committed crimes against humanity.
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Fact Check: Labor's capital gains changes will hurt those on less than $80,000, Josh Frydenberg says. Is that right?
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says Labor's proposed 50 per cent capital gains tax increase will hit not only the economy but also taxpayers on low-to-middle incomes, and claims that more than 60 per cent of people who declare capital gains have taxable income
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Fact Check: Labor says the home ownership rate for young people has fallen 20 per cent. Is that right?
Keeping to Labor's theme of economic inequality in the leadup to the 2019 federal election, Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen claims home ownership rates for people aged 25-34 have "spiralled downwards in recent years".
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Fact Check: Are five MCGs of native forest being logged in Victoria every day?
Environmentalists frequently talk about logging in terms of how many "football fields" or "soccer pitches" are felled. But in the lead up to the 2018 Victorian state election, the Greens released a policy paper that measured logging in a slightly differen