MARK DREYFUS MP

Today marks 750 days since the Prime Minister and Attorney-General promised Australians they would establish a Commonwealth Integrity Commission.

The Liberal-dominated Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services has recklessly endorsed sweeping and permanent changes to Australia’s continuous disclosure laws and Josh Frydenberg’s dangerously ill-conceived new regulations on litigation funders.

Labor welcomes the imminent conclusion of the 12 year battle to bring Malka Leifer to justice in Australia.

The Government’s acceptance of the bipartisan recommendations of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security report is a welcome announcement, but it is only an announcement.

Labor welcomes the appointments to the Office of the Special Investigator announced by the Government today

It is now two years since the Prime Minister and Attorney-General announced they would establish a Commonwealth Integrity Commission.

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.