“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

In the Alice in Wonderland world of the ABC, it now appears that ‘allegation’ may be interpreted as ‘fact’, or at least according to its own Board-ordered external review, when, ABC documentaries on the Luna Park Ghost Train fire were presented as ‘allegations’ rather than ‘facts’.