22 June 2015
NSW Liberal Member for Hughes, Craig Kelly has today used a bipartisan motion celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Racial Discrimination Act to continue the push to repeal Section 18C of the Act.
19 June 2015
Two senior Coalition ministers misled parliament for at least four days so that they could avoid proper scrutiny about the Abbott Governments handling of a letter from the Lindt Cafe Siege gunman.
17 June 2015
Art groups will have the opportunity previously denied to them to let the Abbott Government know what they think of its decision to strip $105 million from the Australia Council.
17 June 2015
Allan Browne, Australian jazz great, has died in Melbourne, aged 70.
16 June 2015
An urgent Senate inquiry will be held into the Abbott Governments handling of a letter to Attorney-General George Brandis from the Lindt Cafe siege gunman Man Haron Monis.
15 June 2015
Tony Abbott has gagged federal parliament to prevent it debating his ministers failure to properly correct misleading statements about a letter from the Lindt Cafe siege gunman.
12 June 2015
Coalition members of the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee must agree to an urgent inquiry into why a letter from Man Haron Monis, sent to the Attorney-General nine weeks before the Lindt Cafe siege in Sydney, was withheld from a review into the tragedy.
04 June 2015
Prime Minister Tony Abbott must explain why a letter from Man Haron Monis sent to George Brandis only nine weeks before the Sydney Lindt Cafe siege was withheld from the inquiry into the tragedy.
02 June 2015
Labor will move to establish a Senate inquiry into the Coalition's new arts slush fund.
28 May 2015
The Abbott Government's politically-motivated decision to strip over $100 million from the independent Australia Council has been revealed at a chaotic Senate Estimates hearing as policy making on the run which will hurt small and medium sized arts organisations and emerging artists.
