MARK DREYFUS MP

Labor acknowledges the resignation of the President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and thanks him for his service on the Tribunal.

The Morrison Government’s rorting and failure to tackle corruption has dragged Australia down to its lowest level on record in Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perceptions Index. 

Labor congratulates the Australian Republic Movement (ARM) on the release of its proposed model for an Australian Head of State.

The long overdue National Elder Abuse Prevalence Study confirms the shocking cost of the Morrison Government’s failure to take action to protect older Australians.

Today marks the third anniversary of Scott Morrison’s 2019 election promise to establish a national anti-corruption commission. Three years later, nothing has happened. To this day, Mr Morrison has still not even brought a bill before the Parliament.

Veterans and other Australians are suffering massive delays in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, in large part because the Morrison-Joyce Government has stacked the Tribunal with an ever-growing number of Liberal mates who can’t or won’t do their jobs.

The limitations of the Morrison-Joyce Government’s ‘inquiry’ into the Religious Discrimination Bill are on full display, with the Government-controlled Joint Standing Committee on Human Rights signalling it does not even want to hear from individuals unless they are academics.  

The Morrison-Joyce Government is now refusing to commit to keeping its 2019 election promise to introduce a national anti-corruption commission.  

Today the Government’s long promised Religious Discrimination Bill has finally been introduced into Federal Parliament.

The Morrison-Joyce Government must abandon its attempts to force the establishment of a rushed and inadequate Senate inquiry into its Religious Discrimination Bill.