A Dutton-led Coalition Government will turbocharge our resources sector – and we see the future of gas as being instrumental to that.

The radical Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) has been referred to the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission to assess whether the organisation has complied with its tax-exempt charity status, after it was forced by the Federal Court to make a $9.04 million settlement with Australian oil and gas company, Santos.

The Albanese Government must urgently cease payments to the taxpayer-funded Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) following the release of Federal Court documents that showed it tried to fabricate Indigenous heritage in an attempt to stop an essential gas project in the Timor Sea.

Calls for the Departmental review into the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) to be expanded into a comprehensive investigation and for the next multi-million dollar payment to be cut have been turbocharged by Coalition Senators after more revelations over the mishandling of the $8.3 million grant were exposed at Senate Estimates.

Only a Coalition Government will hold the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) accountable by ceasing the $8.3 million in Government handouts introduced by Labor.