When Paul Graham, the chief executive of Australia Post, sat down before Senate Estimates on 27 May, he repeated a number as though it were settled fact: Bank@Post, he said, was the only banking service in 183 towns. He said it first to Senator Sarah Henderson, assuring her that Australia Post was committed to keeping banking services in those communities. He said it again to Senator Malcolm Roberts, perhaps hoping the repetition would make it true. But the Australian Citizens Party, a political party that has spent years campaigning to protect post offices from closure, immediately recognised the claim for…

It starts with a headline that makes your blood boil. You’re scrolling through Facebook, and there it is: a story claiming that Pauline Hanson told Anthony Albanese to “shut your dirty mouth” during a live televised debate. Instantly, you feel the outrage, maybe even share it with a friend who’d be just as fired up. But here’s the thing: it never happened. Not on television, not anywhere. The quotes were completely fabricated, and the entire story was cooked up by a foreign-run disinformation operation. AAP FactCheck looked into the claim and found no record of any broadcast debate between the…