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The Conversation’s FactCheck has become the first fact-checking team in Australia and one of only two worldwide accredited by the International Fact-Checking Network at the US-based Poynter Institute.
The Conversation published 29 FactChecks over the eight week federal election campaign.
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Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation and Lucinda Beaman, The Conversation
Bald-faced lies are fairly rare in Australian politics but, in 2016, weasel-words and cherry-picking were common. Politicians and public figures are experts at disguising opinion and ideology as fact.
Who got their facts right in 2016?
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Has the Coalition invested an average of $5 billion per year more than Labor into Medicare?
Was Labor’s shadow health minister Catherine King, pictured here with shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus, right about cuts to bulk-billing payments?
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Labor’s shadow health minister Catherine King, said that the government has “cut bulk-billing payments for pathology and diagnostic imaging to make patients pay more”. Is that right?
Was Bill Shorten right about federal government spending on negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions?
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Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said that Australia spends more at a Commonwealth level on negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts than it does on child care or higher education. Is he right?
All our FactChecks are blind reviewed by a second expert.
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There’s now a global network of factcheck units, operating in myriad different languages. However, none have a process quite like ours at The Conversation. Here’s a step-by-step guide to how we do it.
Was the prime minister right about storms and global warming?
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Was Malcolm Turnbull right to say that larger and more frequent storms are one of the predicted consequences of climate change – but that you can’t attribute any particular storm to global warming?
Was Opposition Leader Bill Shorten right about full time job losses and underemployment under the Coalition government?
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Was Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources Anne Ruston right to say that no solely-managed Commonwealth fishery is subject to overfishing?
Was Bill Shorten right about debt under the Coalition government?
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Was Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen right to say that the Coalition presided over the most sustained fall in our living standards since records began?
Is Pauline Hanson right to suggest that with bombs and stabbings and murders featured nightly on TV that the situation in Australia is growing worse?
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Greens leader Richard Di Natale told Q&A that if there was a vote among people who are under 30 in Australia, there’d possibly be a Greens prime minister. What do the polls say?
Trade Minister Steven Ciobo told Q&A viewers that Australia has had 25 years of continuous economic growth, and is the only country in the world with a period of growth that long. Is that true?
Is Labor right to say that public sector infrastructure investment has fallen by 20% under the current government?
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