LNP to cut all funding for Queensland’s Environmental Defenders Office, breaking election promise

EDO boss says Crisafulli government decision means many ‘won’t even know their rights, let alone have the chance to exercise them’

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In a move raising comparisons to the government of Campbell Newman, Queensland’s Liberal National party government is set to slash all state funding for the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO).

The decision breaches a promise by the LNP to continue funding the body made prior to winning government at the October state election.

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