Fact Check | Immigration 

By Maddy Bos & Isobel Pattinson

We created a series of artifacts centred around RMIT ABC Fact Checks that focus on the topic of immigration. 

Based on the articles, By sending asylum seekers to Nauru and Manus, is Australia guilty of crimes against humanity? and Is Australia’s population growth mostly the result of migration, and is that underpinning the budget? we created two podcast episodes that use these Fact Checks as case studies. The topic of Podcast One is asylum seekers. The podcast begins with an anonymous interview of a social worker who worked for an immigration detention centre. We then look at crimes against humanity and go on to discuss government censorship in Australian offshore immigration and how asylum seekers are using social media to bypass mainstream news media. Podcasts Two opens begins with an interview with a Dutch immigrant, Micheal Bos. We then discuss whether mass media has the power to set agendas and influence public policy, using the Fact Check of Peter Dutton and the ‘genocide’ of white farmers in South Africa as a case study. 

Our artifacts include a series of experimental Tiktoks, discussing ‘how new media versus old media discuss immigration’ as well as a two-part TikTok looking at Pauline Hanson’s tweet about immigration statistics. We also created two infographics based on the ABC RMIT Fact Checks covered in our podcasts and TikToks

 

Podcast One 

 

Podcast Two 

 

TikToks 

Fact Check – New Media vs Old Media Perspective of Immigration

Fact Check – Pauline Hanson Tweet _ Part 1

 

Infographics