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