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Fact Check: Would reducing international student visas create university places for Australians?
Senator Fraser Anning of Katter's Australian Party says migration is a "critical problem" facing the nation, and used his controversial maiden speech to argue for a big reduction in student visas, which he claims would create more university places for Au
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Fact Check: Are Muslims in NSW and Victoria three times more likely than other groups to be convicted of crimes?
In his headline-grabbing first speech to parliament, Katter's Australian Party senator Fraser Anning railed against Muslim immigration, and claimed Muslims in Australia were "vastly" overrepresented in crime rates.
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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.