MARK DREYFUS MP

Member for Isaacs

Media Releases

Brandis Must Come Clean On Sex Discrimination Commissioner

07 February 2016

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.

Abetz Makes Mockery Of $160 Million Gay Marriage Pledge

27 January 2016

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.

Brandis Keeps Fighting Using Your Taxes To Suppress Release Of Diary

20 January 2016

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.

Government Still Playing Politics With Their Royal Commission

16 January 2016

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

Turnbull Must Support A National Redress Scheme

15 January 2016

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

Government Must Abandon Workchoices On Water

13 January 2016

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.

Still No Sex Discrimination Commissioner As Turnbull Fails On Briggs Behaviour

06 January 2016

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

Brandis Secrecy Ruled Out Of Order

22 December 2015

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.

Government Set To Miss Deadline On Redress Scheme

21 December 2015

The Government looks set to miss the deadline set by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to announce whether it will establish a National Redress Scheme.

Turnbull Must Demand Japan Cease Illegal Whaling Programs

18 December 2015

Labor deplores the decision of the Japanese Government this year to ignore the ruling of the International Court of Justice and to re-commence the slaughter of whales in the Southern Ocean.