Episodes
Tech entrepreneur Mike Cannon-Brookes says Australia makes up 5 per cent of carbon emissions, when we factor in our exports of fossil fuels.
Published 12/20/19
Published 12/20/19
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.
Published 10/24/19
Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce says his party, the Nationals, represents the poorest seats. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.
Published 10/24/19
Liberal backbencher Trent Zimmerman says Australia lacks a law that prohibits discrimination because of their religious beliefs. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.
Published 09/26/19
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says renewables plus storage is cheaper than coal or nuclear for new power generation.
Published 09/25/19
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.
Published 08/19/19
Senator for Queensland Matt Canavan says that hook turns are a "stupid" way to manage urban traffic flows. Are they?
Published 08/19/19
RMIT ABC Fact Check's promise tracker is coming back in 2019, and we want to know the promises that you want tracked.
Published 07/25/19
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.
Published 07/25/19
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.
Published 07/05/19
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.
Published 05/17/19
Who got their facts wrong, and who was correct in 2018?
Published 12/21/18
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.
Published 09/13/18
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.
Published 09/13/18
Deputy Liberal Leader Josh Frydenberg says that Prime Minister Scott Morrison's first cabinet has additional representation of women.
Published 09/12/18
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.
Published 09/03/18
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.
Published 08/23/18
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?
Published 08/13/18
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.
Published 08/13/18
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.
Published 07/02/18
Director of the Arena Program, Peter Pomerantsev, talks with Fact Check's Sushi Das about misinformation in the modern era.
Published 06/28/18
ACTU Secretary Sally McManus says that the Pope has declared wage theft a mortal sin, with the punishment of eternal damnation. Is she correct?
Published 06/28/18
Director of the International Fact Checking Network, Alexios Manzarlis, talks transparency and the future of fact checking with Fact Check's Josh Gordon.
Published 06/25/18
Eminent fact checker Glenn Kessler, of the Washington Post, talks Trump and pinocchios with Fact Check's Josh Gordon at Global Fact 2018.
Published 06/21/18