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Fact Check: Were Queensland fire danger indices historically high for early September?


With fires raging across Queensland by the first week of September, Inspector for Queensland Fire and Emergency Services Andrew Sturgess called the weather conditions before the fires "an historic event".
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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