Is that a fact?
By: John Barron and the Fact Checkers
Contributors: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Publisher: ABC Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Sydney, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780733334030
Subjects: Questions and answers; Truthfulness and falsehood
Description: Asylum seekers are illegal economic migrants ; axing the carbon tax will reduce power bills; the budget is in crisis; mandatory sentencing does not work . . . Or so we're told. In the age of 24/7 media, we're subjected to a daily barrage of claims, counter-claims and spin on the claims. Fortunately the ABC's Fact Check team are on the case, sorting fact from fiction, checking sources, tackling the fact zombies which will not die, shining a spotlight on the public figures who play fast and loose with the truth. Here they take on the year's burning questions, from political 'truths' to accepted facts about health, education, society and the law.
Notes: Includes name index.
Table of contents: title: A brief history of fact checking; title: To the victors go the spoils; title: No school will be worse off; title: We will decide who comes to this country; title: Girt by sea; title: The flying kangaroo and other endangered species; title: Lifters or leaners?; title: The hip pocket; title: Budget emergency; title: Political climate change; title: Save the whales!; title: The politics of the personal; title: What God has joined; title: Law and disorder; title: Fact or fiction?; title: Promises promises; title: Name index; title: Acknowledgements