Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Environment, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Senator Wong. Last month, in one of the most scathing Federal Court judgements in memory, Justice Natalie Charlesworth found: that the actions of the Environmental Defenders Office and its team were severely lacking in integrity; that they distorted, misrepresented and confected evidence; and that they manipulated and coached a number of traditional owners in the Munkara and Santos case. Especially after all of the warnings that the government was given about the problems, including green lawfare and the social and economic devastation that it would trigger, does the Albanese Labor government finally now concede that its October 2022 budget decision to supply $8.3 million to the EDO was a terrible, terrible waste of taxpayers' money?