Mark Dreyfus MP

Today’s release of the unclassified report of the Richardson review of the legal framework governing the Australian National Intelligence Community is long overdue.

The Morrison Government has teamed up with Pauline Hanson’s One Nation to restrict the ability of ordinary Australians to seek access to justice and sell out Australian farmers.

The fate of thousands of vulnerable children and families now rests with the Senate after the House voted by the narrowest of margins to endorse the Morrison Government’s radical proposal to effectively abolish the Family Court.

Labor Senators have today rejected outright the Morrison Government’s radical proposal to effectively abolish the Family Court as a destructive and damaging move which will put Australian families at greater risk in their time of greatest need.

The release of today’s report by the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force (IGADF) into allegations of war crimes committed by Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan is a difficult moment for the nation.

Labor supports the announcement today that the Federal Government will establish an Office of the Special Investigator for the purposes of dealing with the outcomes of the Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force (IGADF)’s Afghanistan Inquiry.

The High Court has today delivered a humiliating rebuff to the Morrison Government and the Western Australian Liberals over their support for Clive Palmer’s bid to tear down WA’s border controls against COVID-19.

Experts have slammed the Morrison Government for announcing but not delivering a strong anti-corruption body

The Morrison Government has proposed a weak, secretive and compromised model clearly designed to allow the Government to pretend it is acting to address corruption while ensuring it could never be held accountable for its multiple scandals.

Labor congratulates Federal Court Justices Jacqueline Gleeson and Simon Steward on their appointments to the High Court of Australia.