Funding Could End for Environmental Group Found to Have ‘Confected’ Evidence

Published on January 30, 2024

Government funding for the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO)—a community legal service that says it runs “groundbreaking litigation and leading law reform advocacy”—is under review after Federal Court Justice Natalie Charlesworth issued a ruling that was highly critical of the organisation’s methods and behaviour. As reported by The Epoch Times earlier in January, the EDO represented Tiwi Islanders in a case against plans by energy giant Santos to develop a $5.8 billion (US$3.8 billion) Barossa gas export pipeline. The plaintiffs lost, with the judge making several findings condemning the actions of the EDO and some of its witnesses. She reserved her harshest criticism for an EDO expert witness, marine geoscientist Mick O’Leary, who conducted a cultural mapping exercise as part of the legal challenge, calling the resultant evidence “so lacking in integrity that no weight can be placed [on it].”...

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