MARK DREYFUS MP

New arts minister Mitch Fifield has shown his true colours in continuing the Abbott Government's antipathy toward the arts sector, starting with $20 million in cuts to our national cultural institutions.

The shocking revelation that Professor Gillian Triggs was never consulted about the imminent appointment of a new Sex Discrimination Commissioner makes a mockery of the due process the government has said it would follow, showing once again that the position has become captive to Liberal Party infighting.

Attorney-General George Brandis has turned the selection process for the next Sex Discrimination Commissioner into a farce - refusing to give the President of the Human Rights Commission a say in the appointment of one of her most senior staff.

Eric Abetz has made a joke of the Liberal Government's promise to let the people decide on legalising same sex marriage, directly contradicting his Prime Minister and putting his party's lack of unity on full display.

Attorney-General George Brandis has once again proven his disdain for transparency, using taxpayers' money to go all the way to the Full Federal Court to try to avoid processing an FOI request for his ministerial diary.

The Liberal Government is once more using their Trade Union Royal Commission as a political plaything.

The Turnbull Government must announce its support for a national redress scheme for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse.

Malcolm Turnbull must heed the will of the Parliament and abandon his attempt to allow ship owners to cut costs by sacking their Australian crews and replacing them with foreign crews being paid third world wages.

Malcolm Turnbull's decision to leave the position of Sex Discrimination Commissioner empty for more than four months is nothing short of disgraceful.

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has overruled Attorney-General George Brandis this morning, directing him to process an FOI request for his ministerial diary by Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus.