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A Voice To Parliament: Fact Checking

Fact-checking the media

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fact-checking

noun [ U ]

the process of checking that all the facts in a piece of writing, a news article, a speech, etc. are correct:

Eg. The newspaper now does more fact-checking before publishing letters.

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Fact Checking the Yes/No campaigns

Concerns have been raised over the absence of any formal requirement that the arguments put forward in the pamphlet be based strictly on fact, with the commission establishing in advance that the Yes and No arguments would "be published in separate, unedited, and unformatted documents, exactly as they have been received".

The Yes campaign focused on the positive case for Indigenous recognition, making claims about the disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians across key measures, constitutional recognition in similar countries and the effect of the 1967 referendum.

On the No side, claims were made about the National Indigenous Australians Agency, the definition of a treaty and whether constitutional conventions preceded previous constitutional changes.

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The AEC's Yes/No Pamphlets

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Pamphlets written by politicians and published by the AEC have put the official case for a yes and no vote. They were not independently factchecked before publication.

Fact Checking the No Campaign

Fact Checking the Yes Campaign