MARK DREYFUS MP

In an effort to make up for the poor performance of Scott Morrison in the House of Representatives yesterday, Senator Cormann has said several times today that he does not have the power to direct an investigation by the Australian Electoral Commission into the NSW Liberal Party's dodgy dealings with donations.

In the government's desperation to get its double-dissolution election trigger ready, Senator Brandis has forgotten the facts.

Hot on the heels of Senator Brandis egregious mistake on the Australian Building and Construction Commission this morning, Scott Morrison has made a major error in Question Time today in his description of the powers of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

Today marks the 25^th anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus today visited two Community Legal Centres with local candidates Peta Murphy and Julian Hill to hear first-hand of their struggles to continue providing vital frontline services to domestic violence victims despite $24 million in cuts from the Abbott-Turnbull government.

Saul Same was a true friend of Labor, but he was also much more than that.

The Treasurer is in trouble, again, this time on the back of factually inaccurate comments on the powers of a Royal Commission compared to those of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

A Shorten Labor Government will hold a Royal Commission into misconduct in the banking and financial services industry.

Further allegations of foreign bribery in The Age today suggest that Leighton Holdings dirty dealings overseas go far deeper than first thought

Revelations this evening that personal information delivered in confidence to the Trade Union Royal Commission has been sent mistakenly to third parties is yet more evidence of the farcical nature of the entire process.