RMIT ABC Fact Check was a partnership between RMIT University and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Ms Rishworth's claim is in the ballpark. The increase in childcare costs can be measured by comparing average hourly childcare fees or by examining childcare costs as part of the Consumer Price Index. Using either of th…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Shorten is correct. Both claims — that a million Australians are underemployed and a million Australians are working two jobs — check out according to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures. However, as one expert t…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Morrison's claim is in need of a tune up. Right now, there are a handful of electric vehicles available on the Australian market and only around half specify towing capacity. However, those powerful enough to tow a b…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Shorten's claim is justifiable. The $77 billion figure he cites is an underestimate according to two leading tax and economic modellers consulted by Fact Check. Their analyses, using tax and welfare models similar to…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Senator Di Natale's claim is overblown. The Greens leader has compared several months of detention costs with only part of the Coalition's new spending on climate change, allocated in the 2019 budget. And by focussing o…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Butler's claim is close to the mark. As a proportion of total new car sales, thirty-two OECD member countries have higher sales rates for electric vehicles than Australia does. Australia is ahead of just Mexico, Chil…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Frydenberg's claim is a fair call. The minimum wage, as set by the Fair Work Commission, has increased at a faster rate than both inflation and the average wage on an annual basis since 2014-15, the first full financ…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Shorten's claim is misleading. Apprenticeships have long been associated with traditional trades, such as plumbing. But traineeships are a newer type of training program and are typically associated with the services…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Morrison's claim is wishful thinking. YouTube and Facebook already use algorithms to detect hate content which is then reviewed by people. But ensuring such material is removed "at a moment's notice" requires a fully…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Ms McManus's claim is not clear cut. The most recent data compiled by the OECD puts the rate of temporary employment in Australia at 5.2 per cent of "dependent employment" (wage and salary workers). This would place Aus…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Taylor's claim is misleading. When the Coalition came to power in September 2013, the most up-to-date projections available were from a Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency report almost a year earlier.…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Hunt's claim is half-baked. He has the numbers right, but it does not necessarily follow that an increase in bulk-billing means fewer patients face out-of-pocket costs when seeing their GP. Department of Health stati…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Senator Keneally's figures broadly check out, but there's more to the story when it comes to increased out-of-pocket costs. For a start, the initial 10 months of the rebate freeze was imposed on Labor's watch. At any ra…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Shorten's claim is misleading. Last year, Fact Check examined a similar claim by Mr Shorten, in which he accused the Government of cutting $1.2 billion from aged care. Our analysis and conclusions have not changed. I…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Ms Berejiklian's claim doesn't check out. Fact Check compared NSW with other states in three ways: Of the resulting 11 measures presented in this fact check, New South Wales held the top ranking in only one. Queensland …
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Daley's claim is oversimplified. The department that oversees payments to the sector does not classify funding in terms of "specialist domestic violence shelters". Moreover, the Coalition Government overhauled its ad…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: The NSW Government has indeed closed 15 more schools than it has opened over the past eight years — but Mr Daley's claim is spin. Mr Daley, in fact, understates the number of schools closed compared to the number of new…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Shoebridge's claim is close to the mark. According to the most recent data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the number of homeless people in New South Wales increased by 37 per cent between 2011 and 2016. Ho…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Perrottet's claim amounts to cherrypicking. His figures are accurate, but they do not fairly represent Labor's record on jobs. Experts told Fact Check that comparing unemployment rates for two individual months 10 ye…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Coleman's claim is spin. The bill governs the transfer of people from offshore processing countries in order to receive medical or psychiatric "treatment or assessment". Experts told Fact Check that it could be possi…