Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd says Aung San Suu Kyi is largely powerless to act because of political constraints in a country where the military is supreme.
Victoria's laws for disclosing political donations have long been criticised as among the weakest in the nation, but Premier Daniel Andrews says his proposed reforms will make the state's donations laws "the strictest donation laws in the country".
Treasurer Scott Morrison says Australia will be left "stranded on a tax island — uncompetitive with the United States, with the United Kingdom, with Singapore," if Labor doesn't agree to pass the Government's corporate tax cuts.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says that there are more women in his current cabinet than in any previous government. RMIT ABC Fact Check runs the numbers.
Sydney cardiologist Dr Ross Walker says that common health checks for blood pressure and cholesterol were not the best predictors of heart attacks. He says that a scan for coronary calcium is the best indicator. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott claims that "same-sex couples in a settled domestic relationship have exactly the same rights as people who are married".
Is Mr Abbott correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check finds out.
Prominent barrister Geoffrey Watson SC has criticised Australia's failure to establish a federal anti-corruption watchdog, telling ABC's RN Breakfast that it puts us "out of step with our international obligations" by not having a federal anti-corruption body.
Fact Check has scrutinisedthe available data on domestic violence and talked to experts to present this guide to what the data does, and does not, show.
This fact file, based on the latest research in Australia, is one of the first using geographical areas to reveal how the patterns of homelessness have changed over 15 years.
