MARK DREYFUS MP

Scott Morrison’s claim in Question Time that his support for Clive Palmer’s challenge to Western Australia’s borders was ‘normal convention’ is yet another example of Barnaby Joyce’s observation ‘how earnestly he rearranges the truth to a lie’. 

Labor supports the extension of the federal anti-discrimination framework to ensure that Australians are not discriminated against because of their religious beliefs or activities.
 
Labor believes religious organisations and people of faith have the right to act in accordance with the doctrines, beliefs or teachings of their traditions and faith.
 
But as we have made clear from the outset, any extension of the federal anti-discrimination framework should not come at the expense of existing laws that protect Australians from other forms of discrimination.

The Attorney-General has today confirmed Scott Morrison cannot be trusted by the Australian people to establish a national anti-corruption commission. 

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.