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  1. Get fact 2017: The year that was in fact checking

    RMIT ABC Fact Check was relaunched in 2017 as a partnership between RMIT University in Melbourne and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, combining the best of academic rigour with journalistic excellence. And there was no shortage of claims to check.

    Here's our wrap up of the facts and furphies of the year.

More Fact Checks

  1. Fact check: Australia's refugee program

    Coalition Senator George Brandis says that "Australia, per capita, runs the most generous refugee and humanitarian migration program in the world".

  2. Fact check: Keneally education spending

    In the lead-up to the Bennelong by-election, Labor and the Coalition have clashed over the issue of schools funding, with each offering an alternative view of Labor candidate, former NSW premier Kristina Keneally's, record on education spending in government.

  3. Fact check: Land clearing

    The Queensland Greens say that "[m]ore than 1 million hectares of native bush and forest has been cleared in Queensland over the last four years. Land clearing in Queensland is now on par with Brazil". RMIT ABC Fact Check runs the numbers.

  4. Fact check: Crocodile attacks

    Katter's Australian Party MP Bob Katter says that a person is "torn to pieces" every three months in north Queensland. RMIT ABC Fact Check runs the numbers.

  5. Fact check: Qld electricity prices

    Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says that under her Government, "average prices for households have increased an average of just 1.9 per cent per year compared to 43 per cent over the term of the LNP Newman-Nicholls Government".

  6. Fact check: Cross River Rail

    Leader of One Nation in Queensland, Steve Dickson, says that Queensland's Cross River Rail project is "$5.4 billion that doesn't need to be spent until 2036. Infrastructure Australia has said that this project is not needed until that time".

Fact Files

  1. Fact file: The dual citizenship crisis

    Australia has lost nine senators and two members of the House of Representatives since the July 2016 federal election to section 44 of the Australian constitution. How did we get here and what comes next?

  2. Fact file: "Robo-marking" NAPLAN essays

    The Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority says its research, trials and analysis show computers are just as good as humans, if not better, at marking essays. RMIT ABC Fact Check takes a look.

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  1. Explainer: How does RMIT ABC Fact Check find and fact check claims?

    At RMIT ABC Fact Check, we're committed to transparency, so we've made this handy explainer so you can be informed about how we find and check claims.

  2. Fact check: Has assisted dying been a legal slippery slope overseas?

    The Victorian Labor Government has introduced assisted dying laws into Parliament, but former prime minister Paul Keating says that once these laws are legislated, "the experience of overseas jurisdictions suggests the pressures for further liberalisation are irresistible".

  3. Fact check: Do same-sex couples in a settled domestic relationship have the same rights as married couples?

    Former prime minister Tony Abbott says that same-sex couples in a "settled domestic relationship" have exactly the same rights as married heterosexual couples. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

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Posted August 09, 2013 11:45:43 | Updated May 04, 2017 13:11:40

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