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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 wages grown in five years under the Coalition only as much as they did in one year under Labor?
Despite the Turnbull Government predicting a rise in pay packets, former treasurer Wayne Swan says real private sector wages have grown just one per cent across the five years since the Coalition assumed office in 2013, and claims Labor achieved an equiva
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Fact Check: Has equality for Australian women relative to the world fallen in the last six or eight years?
Gillian Triggs, former president of the Australian Human Rights Commission, has warned that equality for Australian women has worsened dramatically since the beginning of the decade.
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Fact Check: Is sugar consumption down while obesity rates have risen?
Alison Watkins, the group managing director of Coca-Cola Amatil, has argued against a sugar tax, emphasising that despite a fall in the consumption of added sugars since 1995, obesity rates have continued to rise.
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Fact Check: Is the Government's income tax relief focused on female taxpayers?
Ahead of the 2019 federal election, debate has turned to the fairness of the Turnbull Government's tax package. Kelly O'Dwyer, the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, and Minister for Women, has weighed in, claiming the tax cuts were "good for wo
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Fact Check: Has a government not won a seat from an opposition at a by-election in 100 years?
In the run up to a series of federal by-elections, Special Minister of State Mathias Cormann claimed no government, of either political persuasion, had won a seat off an opposition at a by-election in the past 100 years.