MARK DREYFUS MP

It is time for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to show some leadership and rein in Liberal MPs who are intent on using divisive and counter-productive language on national security matters.

MYEFO today confirms that Malcolm Turnbull will continue the slash-and-burn approach of the Abbott Government to arts funding.

The Turnbull Government's MYEFO confirms the Governments decision to retain cuts to legal services that help women experiencing domestic violence.

When the Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced$47.3 million of grants for Hollywood blockbusters in October, she didn't admit that this would come at the expense of Australian filmmakers.

A Shorten Labor Government will deliver a package of governance changes aimed at deterring and detecting corruption in unions.

Getting rid of Senator Brandis as the Minister for the Arts was a good start, but the report today from the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee makes clear that the Prime Minister must now act to get rid of Senator Brandis's policies too.

Federal Labor has welcomed the Palaszczuk Government's decision to make non-fatal strangulation an offence, as part of Queensland's response to family and domestic violence.

Labor has been advised the Turnbull Government is seeking to vary amendments to the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Allegiance to Australia) Bill 2015.

The difference between Labor's policy and that of the Government is stark. Labor opposes the Government's plan to hold an expensive, unnecessary and divisive plebiscite on marriage equality.

The Liberal National Party is again seeking to weaken race hate speech protections with a motion at this weekend's Queensland LNP State Council calling on the Turnbull Government to have another crack at watering down the Racial Discrimination Act.