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Fact Check: Are five MCGs of native forest being logged in Victoria every day?


Environmentalists frequently talk about logging in terms of how many "football fields" or "soccer pitches" are felled. But in the lead up to the 2018 Victorian state election, the Greens released a policy paper that measured logging in a slightly differen
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Fact Check: Could Richard Di Natale and Bob Brown act as medical advisers on the transfer of refugees under proposed legislation?


As the Government seeks to prevent the passage of the so-called "medevac bill", Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has questioned the influence medical practitioners would have in deciding to transfer sick refugees to Australia for treatment, suggesting t
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Fact Check: Does Labor have twice the number of women the Liberals have in Parliament and on the frontbench?


Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek claims that Labor is well ahead of the Liberal Party when it comes to female representation, with more than double the number of women in its parliamentary party, and double the number of women on its frontbench.
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Fact Check: Will Labor's dividend imputation policy overwhelmingly affect the low paid?


The Morrison Government has argued Labor's controversial plan to scrap refundable franking credits on dividends from shares is unfair. Assistant Treasurer Stuart Robert says the plan will overwhelmingly hit low and middle-income earners, claiming that 84
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Fact Check: Is the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu growing, and not sinking, as Craig Kelly says?


Caught on tape mocking "lefties" for exaggerating the effects of climate change, Liberal MP and climate sceptic Craig Kelly has claimed that Tuvalu is not sinking beneath the seas but, according to the scientific literature, growing.