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RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Yes Mr O'Brien is correct, but there's more to it. The state tax take has, in nominal terms, increased by about 35 per cent over four years, underpinned by strong collections of stamp duty, payroll, land and motor vehic…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Frydenberg's claim is misleading. Experts contacted by Fact Check took issue with Mr Frydenberg's use of taxable income to define wealth, due to the very nature of negative gearing, which is a tax deduction that redu…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: There's more to the story than Mr Judah's claim suggests. Mr Judah and the Liberals have been driving their campaign truck adorned with crime statistics across the Bentleigh electorate, including the suburbs of Bentleig…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr O'Donohue's claim is misleading. The figure he cites covers substantially more than the period Labor has been in office, so cannot be used to assess the record of just one government. There is also no agreed definiti…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Senator Hanson is wrong. The overwhelming majority of asylum seekers currently on Nauru have been deemed to be refugees by the Nauruan Government in accordance with international law and the United Nations refugee conve…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Ms O'Dwyer's claim is not the full story. She is entitled to claim that wages have grown, in nominal terms, by about 30 per cent over a decade, outstripping inflation of about 20 per cent over the same period. However, …
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Katter is wrong. His initial election as an independent in 2001, and re-election in 2004, was preceded by the re-election of two other independent MPs, whom he mentioned — one more than a decade earlier. In 1990, for…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Shorten's claim is misleading. In Mr Morrison's first year as federal treasurer — that is, 2016-17 — total Commonwealth funding for aged care (excluding the pension and other forms of income support for seniors, but …
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Costa's claim is overstated. Experts told Fact Check that crops reliant on bee pollination represented closer to 35 per cent (about one-third) of total food production. They said that although around 75 per cent of a…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Smith is incorrect. The "developed world" is not a settled concept, but Australia's population growth does not top any of four credible lists of developed countries. Fact Check compared Australia's population growth …
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Senator Canavan's claim is baseless. Experts told Fact Check that the bill before Parliament contained clear restrictions on abortions after 22 weeks' gestation. While abortions would be available on request up to 22 we…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Morrison's claim is overreach. His numbers check out, although they differ slightly to those from the government agency officially tasked with publishing the gender pay gap. However, they oversimplify what has happen…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Wilson's claim is simplistic. The White Australia policy was dismantled, piece by piece, over decades spanning governments both Liberal and Labor. Experts told Fact Check the 1966-67 Holt government's reforms were cr…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Senator Cormann is correct. The last time an opposition lost a seat to a government at a by-election was in 1920 — almost 100 years ago. The previous MP in that by-election, Hugh Mahon, remains the only member in the hi…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Turnbull's claim is a fair call. Spending on health was higher in 2016-17 than in any other year since at least 1985-86. The final budget outcome is not yet available for 2017-18, but on the most recent estimate spen…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Professor Del Mar's claim is misleading. The source of Professor Del Mar's claim is a systematic review of studies measuring the efficacy of flu vaccine in preventing the flu in healthy adults. That review found the flu…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Ms Anderson's claim is correct. Across the five financial years from 2014-15 to 2018-19, the aid budget has been cut twice in nominal terms. And while data from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade shows that nom…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Shorten's claim doesn't check out. In support of his argument, Mr Shorten cited three examples of men whose promotions, he claimed, had broken with protocol: Sir Thomas Blamey, Prince Philip, and General George Washi…