MARK DREYFUS MP

Labor welcomes the campaign by over 150 leading Australian writers, researchers and thinkers calling for the National Archives of Australia to be saved from the Morrison Government’s wanton neglect.

The ABC has today directly contradicted the wild claims made by former Attorney-General Christian Porter about his failed defamation action.

Labor is deeply saddened by the passing of eminent Australian lawyer and jurist James Crawford.

The decision by the former Attorney-General Christian Porter to abandon his defamation action against the ABC means Mr Morrison no longer has an excuse to refuse to hold an independent inquiry into these allegations.

Senate Estimates has confirmed that not only does Scott Morrison’s No Integrity Commission have no staff, its budget has now been effectively wiped.

Today marks four years since First Nations leaders from across the nation delivered the Uluru Statement from the Heart. 

Taxpayers are footing the bills for the legal stumbles of Scott Morrison’s ministers, even when they are at fault and their legal bills have little to do with their official duties.

The verdict is in on Scott Morrison’s No Integrity Commission – it’s so weak, so secretive and so lacking in independence that instead of exposing corruption it would cover it up.

For the second time in nine months a Parliamentary Inquiry has found media freedom is under threat in Australia, and still the Morrison Government fails to act.

In the same week its own Budget Papers confirmed wages will be going backwards for another four years, the Morrison Government has reappointed four of its mates to lucrative taxpayer funded jobs.