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ABC Fact Check determines the accuracy of claims by politicians, public figures, advocacy groups and institutions engaged in the public debate.
ACTU Secretary Sally McManus says labour's share of GDP is the lowest it's been since the 1960s.
Tech entrepreneur Mike Cannon-Brookes says Australia makes up 5 per cent of carbon emissions, when we factor in our exports of fossil fuels.
Opposition spokeswoman for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney, says Australia's constitution is the only constitution of a first world nation with a colonial history that doesn't recognise its first people. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.
Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce says his party, the Nationals, represents the poorest seats. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.
Liberal backbencher Trent Zimmerman says Australia lacks a law that prohibits discrimination because of their religious beliefs. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says renewables plus storage is cheaper than coal or nuclear for new power generation.
The chief executive of advocacy group National Shelter says Australia has a "severe housing problem" caused by a lack of social housing, saying it has fallen to a low of 4.2 per cent from a high of 7.1 per cent. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.
Senator for Queensland Matt Canavan says that hook turns are a "stupid" way to manage urban traffic flows. Are they?
RMIT ABC Fact Check's promise tracker is coming back in 2019, and we want to know the promises that you want tracked.
Assistant Minister for Community Housing, Homelessness and Community Services Luke Howarth gave a controversial interview where he tried to put a "positive spin" on homelessness. We fact checked his claims.
Former Labor minister Stephen Conroy says the trip from Sydney to Melbourne in an electric vehicle cannot be done easily. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.
While the politicians have been campaigning, RMIT Fact Check has been working hard checking their claims, to provide clarity to you at the ballot box.
Who was responsible for the abolition of the White Australia policy? Politicians on both sides of the divide have at various times claimed it for their party. Here's Madeleine Morris with the facts.
The Liberal Party is in the midst of a discussion over women's representation in the parliamentary party. Madeleine Morris has a quick explainer on the last two decades.
Deputy Liberal Leader Josh Frydenberg says that Prime Minister Scott Morrison's first cabinet has additional representation of women.
In his first speech to Parliament, Katter's Australian Party senator Fraser Anning made a number of contested claims. Fact Check takes a look at three of them in this Fraser Anning special.
Katter's Australian Party senator Fraser Anning says that international student visas should be reduced, which he says would create more university places for Australian students.
Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton says that asylum seekers who get to New Zealand can then travel to Australia and receive a visa on arrival. Is he correct?
Coca-Cola Amatil group managing director Alison Watkins says that sugar consumption has fallen whilst obesity rates have risen, and that this means neither sugar nor sugar-sweetened drinks are responsible. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.
Eminent fact checker Bill Adair speaks to RMIT ABC Fact Check director Russell Skelton about fake news in the digital age at Global Fact V in Rome, Italy.
Director of the Arena Program, Peter Pomerantsev, talks with Fact Check's Sushi Das about misinformation in the modern era.
ACTU Secretary Sally McManus says that the Pope has declared wage theft a mortal sin, with the punishment of eternal damnation. Is she correct?
Director of the International Fact Checking Network, Alexios Manzarlis, talks transparency and the future of fact checking with Fact Check's Josh Gordon.
Eminent fact checker Glenn Kessler, of the Washington Post, talks Trump and pinocchios with Fact Check's Josh Gordon at Global Fact 2018.
Independent senator Fraser Anning says that more than half of Australia's working-age Muslims are not in the labour force.