Prime Minister Tony Abbott claims there is a big between turning boats around in Australian waters and the Australian Navy towing them back to Indonesia.

In the lead up to the federal election, Greens MP Adam Bandt called for the minimum wage to be increased to a so-called "living wage", claiming that nearly one in four people in poverty worked full-time.

Former Victorian premier and president of AFL club Hawthorn, Jeff Kennett, claims AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou secured hundreds of millions of dollars for ground upgrades, giving the game supremacy over other codes.

Amnesty International secretary general Salil Shetty claims the rate at which Western Australia jails Indigenous children is higher than the rate black children in the US are incarcerated.

Since International Women's Day in 2018, RMIT ABC Fact Check has investigated a slew of claims relating to women and their place in Australian society and politics. This article summarises the findings.

In leaders' debates held in the run up to federal elections, is the more persuasive leader also the more accurate? RMIT ABC Fact Check looked at some of the key claims made during the first leaders' debate of the 2019 federal election.

RMIT ABC Fact Check looked at some of the key claims made during the third leaders' debate of the 2019 federal election.

RMIT ABC Fact Check looked at some of the key claims made during the second leaders' debate of the 2019 federal election.

Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton says a spike in arson offences was to blame for this season's devastating bushfires. But there is no evidence to show arson was even moderately responsible.

Some say Australia is doing its fair share to tackle climate change, given it accounts for just 1.3 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions. Depending on the accounting method, however, that number could be much higher.