Fact Check: Tony Abbott's Tasmanian wilderness claim doesn't check out

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Fact Check: Tony Abbott's Tasmanian wilderness claim doesn't check out

26 Mar 2014

RMIT ABC Fact Check

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Fact Check: Tony Abbott's Tasmanian wilderness claim doesn't check out

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Prime Minister Tony Abbott claims the 74,000 hectares the Government is proposing to remove from the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area is not pristine forest.
Verdict: Doesn't check out

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2014

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26 May 2020

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