MARK DREYFUS MP

Today marks 1,000 days since Scott Morrison promised the Australian people a national anti-corruption commission.

 At a time when our intelligence agencies are battling against what they describe as an unprecedented rise in dangerous extremism Mr Morrison’s Government has appointed as the Human Rights Commissioner a person who believes our long-standing protections against racist hate speech place a ‘heavy burden’ on ‘the implied freedom of political communication’. 

Just weeks after he was humiliated by a Federal Court Judge over his delusional and arrogant attempt to make meetings of First Ministers exempt from public scrutiny by calling it “National Cabinet”, Mr Morrison is now trying to get the Parliament to overturn the umpire’s ruling.

Scott Morrison and the Liberals vote against Labor’s proposal to fully implement the Respect@Work report to help keep Australians safe from sexual harassment at work.

An Albanese Labor Government will help keep Australians safe from sexual harassment at work by investing in women’s support services, and establishing a one-stop shop to assist victims.

To the many members of the Afghan-Australian community across our electorates of Bruce, Holt and Isaacs, we offer our deepest sympathies for the distress you have suffered in recent weeks. We will continue to stand by you in the difficult days ahead and we will do everything that we can to help.

Journalist Nick McKenzie’s expose of the National Socialist Network and other groups, such as Combat-18, that are active here in Australia raises the very serious question of why the Morrison Government has not yet proscribed these groups as terrorist organisations.

Scott Morrison and Christian Porter’s disastrous intervention to support Clive Palmer’s attack on Western Australia and Queensland’s COVID-19 border restrictions cost taxpayers over $1 million.

An Albanese Labor Government will fully implement all 55 recommendations of the Sex Discrimination Commissioner’s groundbreaking Respect@Work Report to help keep Australians safe from sexual harassment at work.

The Morrison Government must finally reveal the full cost of its decision to side with Clive Palmer’s bid to tear down Western Australia’s border controls against COVID-19.