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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: Does the projected increase in revenue from the Government's crackdown on illicit tobacco rely on smokers switching to legal product?
The Government has used its 2018 federal budget to announce new revenue from a crackdown on illegal tobacco. But Liberal Democrats senator David Leyonhjelm says the measure will “never raise anything like $3.3 billion”, forecast in the first year, claimin
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Fact Check: Did the Pope declare wage theft a mortal sin that reaps eternal punishment?
The union movement has enlisted the opinion of an unlikely ally in its campaign to make wage theft a crime. Australian Council of Trade Unions Secretary Sally McManus has told her Twitter followers that the Pope declared wage theft a mortal sin, which mea
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Fact Check: Was the latest dual citizenship decision 'absolutely obvious and clear'?
The decision of the High Court in relation to the dual citizenship of Labor's Katy Gallagher has led to the departure of five politicians from Parliament, four of whom were from the Labor Party. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull claimed that the outcome for
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Fact Check: Is the level of Liberal women in Parliament lower now than it was in 1996?
The Liberal Party has again come under fire for the low number of women in its federal parliamentary team, with former Liberal senator Judith Troeth arguing female representation was "disgracefully lagging" and had regressed over the past 22 years.
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Fact Check: Are more than half of Australia's working-age Muslims not in the workforce?
Independent Senator Fraser Anning argues free welfare and public housing attracts migrants in "search of a free ride at everyone else's expense", claiming that 56 per cent of Australia's working-age Muslims are not in the labour force.