Hopefully the ABC's about-time diminished budget won't retain a soft, wet, left, Tony Jones component.

Any one can ask TC to do some fact checking - https://theconversation.com/au/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=fact+checking

Fact checking is not an ABC initiative. TC readers were quite scathing about the way Q & A simply accepted as gospel whatever was said (one of the reasons I stopped watching). After about a year of exposing that quite often statements were factually incorrect Q & A enetered into some sort of partnership with TC but it is not up to Tony Jones to decide what will be fact checked.

Fact checking is not a threat - if anything Lambi's comment supported by the fact check https://theconversation.com/factcheck-qanda-was-it-four-degrees-hotter-110-000-years-ago-73045

Your other point that the claim that Muslims are feminists should have been fact checked confuses facts with opinions. One simply cannot fact check such statement - what do we mean by feminism? What would be the evidence to support such a statement? If even the Catholic Church can lay claims to being feminist then what hope do you have of fact checking this claim?

Fact checking doesn't prove everything under the sun, however common sense and a just touch of scientific literacy, will confirm planet earth is an ovoid orbiting around a sun currently in a waning phase, which as part of a normal cyclical series of events, would have heralded at the very least, a mini ice age!

Not extreme weather events rising heatwave trends culminating in the hottest summer on record! Yes there is something we as a species can do about it, but like our PM, would rather expend considerable energy pushing it uphill, to grasp defeat from the Jaws of victory the very next time we have an ever hotter more enduring drought, that turns the dams into little more than puddles that nothing can be pumped from, let alone unhill?

Rather than simply come to the inescapable conclusion that our energy crisis will only be solved, regardless of the vagaries of the weather, with the acceptance and rollout of a for peaceful purpose only, nuclear future!

Batteries? Yes and why not as an interim measure that'll take care of the surge related blackouts for the next decade?

What then, Peddle power? The return of coal fired, back to the future, steam engines? Well what else is a coal fired power station? Innovative lastest science?

Senator Lambie is not the problem, just the dunder heads making the decisions? And resolutely refusing point blank to fact check the irrefutable evidence that ought to impact those same decisions!
Alan B.