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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: Did the budget take from working mums and give tax cuts to millionaires?
Labor Opposition Leader Bill Shorten claims the 2016 federal budget will boost the take-home pay of millionaires while cutting payments for working mums, arguing that a mother earning $65,000 with two kids at high school would lose more than $4,500 in gov
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Fact Check: Is the Government not yet in caretaker mode?
In response to accusations the Government was holding a defence industry roundtable during an election campaign, Industry Minister Christopher Pyne claimed that caretaker mode had not yet started.
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Fact Check: Did the Greens win the seat of Melbourne in 2013 in their own right without having to rely on Liberal preferences?
Greens MP Adam Bandt has accused Labor of "begging" the Liberals for voter preferences in the leadup to the 2016 election, claiming he retained his Melbourne seat in 2013 under his own steam, without Liberal preference flows.
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Fact Check: Do two-thirds of negative gearers earn under $80,000?
Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer argues Labor's negative gearing policy would disadvantage average earners, claiming two-thirds of negative gearers have incomes of $80,000.
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Fact Check: Have firearm homicides and suicides dropped since Port Arthur as a result of John Howard's reforms?
Nearly twenty years after the Port Arthur massacre, John Howard, the prime minister who overhauled gun laws, claims they led to significant falls in gun-related homicides and a 74 per cent fall in gun-related suicide rates.