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Tanya Plibersek, Shadow Minister for Education and Women

“Right now in Sydney, if you're a Muslim woman sitting on a train and someone yells at you for wearing a hijab, you've got no protection under the law from that.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Overreach

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Ms Plibersek's claim is overreach. There are no religious vilification laws at either a state or federal level which would protect someone in NSW from vilification as described by Ms Plibersek, but experts told Fact Che…

Social media posts

“Classified documents from Ukraine “confirm without a shadow of a doubt” that the Ukraine government was “covertly preparing an offensive operation against Donbas, scheduled for March 2022.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: The document isn’t classified, and there are no direct statements in it about an attack on the Donbas. It makes references to a training camp on the opposite side of the country.

Scott Morrison, Prime Minister

“There was no authority for the federal government to reject, approve anything in relation to the leasing of [the Port of Darwin].”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Not the full story

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Morrison's claim is not the full story. The Foreign Investment Review Board determined in 2015 that it had no authority to examine the Darwin port deal — because it fell under exemption provisions of the Foreign Acqu…