MARK DREYFUS MP

Today in Question Time in the Senate the Minister for Women, Senator Michaelia Cash, repeatedly refused to acknowledge, or give reason why, the Government will not commit to renewing desperately needed $12 million in funding to community legal centres.

Malcolm Turnbull must guarantee that his Liberal Senators will oppose Senator Bob Day's Bill to weaken Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act when it is considered by the Senate this Thursday.

Labor has welcomed the Government's decision to return $15 million dollars to legal assistance services to help women experiencing domestic violence.

Federal Labor's Tasmania Taskforce today met in Hobart to discuss the future of Tasmania's arts industry.

Malcolm Turnbull's decision to appoint Senator James McGrath as his Assistant Minister shows a lack of judgement and will greatly concern Australia's diverse migrant communities who oppose weakening Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.

Malcolm Turnbull has done the right thing in stripping the Arts ministry from Senator George Brandis QC.

A Senate Committee has today rejected Tony Abbott's plan for a plebiscite on marriage equality, a plan that Malcolm Turnbull has made his own as the price of taking the Liberal leadership.

Labor welcomes the release of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse's Final report Redress and Civil Litigation.

Labor welcomes the Prime Minister's strong support for action to end the scourge of family violence on our nation.

More than nine months after announcing the creation of a new Book Council of Australia on 8 December 2014, the Minister for the Arts Senator Brandis today announced it once again in his speech to the Australian Society of Authors in Sydney.