“Five MCG's worth of native forest are being logged in Victoria every day.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
The Greens' claim is close to the mark. While the policy paper was unclear on just which measure of the MCG it used, the common practice of using a football field to measure logging activity provides a reasonable basis for assessing that the claim would be calculated against the size of its playing field — which is just over 2 hectares. Nearly 3,000 hectares of native forest was logged in Victoria in 2016-17, and forest harvesting crews generally work Monday to Saturday. This equates to aroun...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
The Greens (Political party) made this claim. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 20 February 2019. Its rating was “Close to the mark”.
Where the claim appeared
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