ABC Fact Check: Testing claims by politicians and other public figures

by ABC News (Australia)
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Determines the accuracy of claims by politicians, public figures, advocacy groups and institutions.

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Fact check zombie: $667 billion deficit	ABC News (Australia)	0:39
Fact check: Has train punctuality improved under the Napthine Government?	ABC News (Australia)	1:16
Fact check: Can clean coal technology halve emissions within 5 years?	ABC News (Australia)	1:28
Backing the Melbourne Cup favourite: Are the odds in your favour?	ABC News (Australia)	1:27
Fact Check special: Is obesity a disease?	ABC News (Australia)	9:55
Experts tell Fact Check Australia is at war with Islamic State in Iraq	ABC News (Australia)	5:10
Will Australian universities 'slide into mediocrity' without reform?	ABC News (Australia)	1:22
Fact check: Will 50pc of Australians die before they can access their super?	ABC News (Australia)	1:04
Fact check: PUP Senator Jacqui Lambie incorrect on defence spending	ABC News (Australia)	1:27
Fact Check zombie: Tony Abbott on the mining tax	ABC News (Australia)	0:33
Fact check: Joe Hockey's 'poor people' don't have cars, don't drive far claim misleading	ABC News (Australia)	1:22
Fact Check: Do e-cigarettes help people quit smoking?	ABC News (Australia)	1:27
What is the Abbott Government's record on promises?	ABC News (Australia)	2:57
ABC Fact Check's Promise Tracker coming soon...	ABC News (Australia)	0:15
Does the budget cut $80 billion from hospitals and schools?	ABC News (Australia)	1:31
Is the Government paying $1 billion a month in interest on its debt?	ABC News (Australia)	1:31
Will Abbott's fuel excise hike cost families 40c a week?	ABC News (Australia)	1:24
Chris Bowen scaremongering about financial advice reforms	ABC News (Australia)	1:43
Will Australia have the biggest medical research fund in the world?	ABC News (Australia)	1:21
Commission of Audit chairman Tony Shepherd incorrect on doctor visits	ABC News (Australia)	1:15
Is the evidence on GP co-payments as bad as Labor says?	ABC News (Australia)	1:22
Has the Government doubled the budget deficit?	ABC News (Australia)	1:22
Do people really have a right to be bigots?	ABC News (Australia)	1:26
Fact or fiction: Common Anzac myths put to the test	ABC News (Australia)	4:12
Single-decker v double-decker trains: Barry O'Farrell's claim doubtful	ABC News (Australia)	1:27
Will the budget be $13.8 billion better off if the mining tax is scrapped?	ABC News (Australia)	1:24
Tony Abbott's Tasmanian wilderness claim doesn't check out	ABC News (Australia)	1:40
Did the NT's banned drinker register work?	ABC News (Australia)	1:32
How severe is the drought in Queensland and NSW?	ABC News (Australia)	1:11
Albanese wrong on government ownership of world's top airlines	ABC News (Australia)	1:29
SA leaders being selective on the economy	ABC News (Australia)	1:44
Kelly O'Dwyer incorrect on Australia's refugee intake	ABC News (Australia)	1:36
Bill Shorten cherrypicking manufacturing job loss figures	ABC News (Australia)	1:30
Turnbull correct: Australian farmers among world's least subsidised	ABC News (Australia)	1:24
Bill Shorten's car subsidy numbers irrelevant, outdated	ABC News (Australia)	1:22
ACTU boss overstates wages, productivity performance	ABC News (Australia)	1:26
Is Australia heading for European welfare spending?	ABC News (Australia)	1:38
Tony Abbott incorrect on asylum seekers breaking Australian law	ABC News (Australia)	1:21
Has plain tobacco packaging failed to stop people smoking?	ABC News (Australia)	1:26
Auction clearance rates based on incomplete data	ABC News (Australia)	1:24
Impossible to guarantee no school will be worse off under Coalition	ABC News (Australia)	1:19
Would spying on East Timor by ASIS be illegal?	ABC News (Australia)	1:14
Is it illegal to spy on Indonesian officials?	ABC News (Australia)	1:30
ACOSS child poverty claim overblown	ABC News (Australia)	1:29
Doing the sums: How much is Clive Palmer worth?	ABC News (Australia)	1:22
Warren Truss inflates the impact of GrainCorp's sale on ports	ABC News (Australia)	1:20
Does Indonesia have to take asylum seekers rescued by the Australian Navy?	ABC News (Australia)	1:22
Does the Abbott Government have a mandate?	ABC News (Australia)	1:50
Christopher Pyne in the red on student outcomes in independent public schools	ABC News (Australia)	1:33
Mathias Cormann on the money: Medibank Private sale will not raise premiums	ABC News (Australia)	1:43
Joe Hockey's Australia, US debt ceiling comparison overblown	ABC News (Australia)	2:05
Will abolishing the carbon tax reduce power bills?	ABC News (Australia)	2:16
How much has NSW done to reduce the risk of bushfires?	ABC News (Australia)	1:30
Will the ACT's marriage equality bill survive a High Court challenge?	ABC News (Australia)	1:48
MP expenses: Are the rules clear?	ABC News (Australia)	2:04
Abbott splitting hairs on the difference between towing and turning back the boats	ABC News (Australia)	2:44
What Greg Hunt didn't say about the carbon price and emissions	ABC News (Australia)	2:07
Is it illegal to turn back boats in international waters to Indonesia?	ABC News (Australia)	2:43
Claim Australian banks lending too much money overblown	ABC News (Australia)	2:17
Costello's foreign aid cuts claim not credible	ABC News (Australia)	2:03
The campaign that was: how the facts checked out	ABC News (Australia)	2:16
Scott Morrison correct on 'illegal entry' of people without a visa	ABC News (Australia)	1:39
Kevin Rudd incorrect on PPL, child care comparison	ABC News (Australia)	1:36
Greg Hunt not giving the full story on climate research	ABC News (Australia)	1:41
Abbott's claim on carbon tax cost to households is outdated	ABC News (Australia)	1:17
Chris Bowen correct on investor impact of parental leave scheme	ABC News (Australia)	1:39
Kevin Rudd goes too far on paid parental leave for millionaires	ABC News (Australia)	1:27
Joe Hockey exaggerates difference between Labor, Coalition record on debt	ABC News (Australia)	1:52
Tony Abbott correct on Pacific Solution outcome	ABC News (Australia)	1:55
Kevin Rudd's $70 billion black hole claim not credible	ABC News (Australia)	1:36

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