29 April 2021
Senator Amanda Stoker’s attempt to block the Australian Human Rights Commission’s (AHRC) anti-racism campaign is a disturbing and outrageous attempt to interfere with the work of an independent government agency.
28 April 2021
Today’s findings that ACT Policing have had “a cavalier approach to exercising telecommunications data powers” highlights the need for the government to urgently act on changes to metadata laws, as recommended by the bipartisan Intelligence and Security Committee over six months ago.
15 April 2021
30 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 474 First Nations people have died.
Labor is announcing a suite of substantive measures today to begin to turn the tide on the incarceration and the deaths.
08 April 2021
After more than a year of delays, it’s about time Scott Morrison did something to respond to the Respect@Work report about sexual harassment in Australian workplaces.
29 March 2021
The appointment of Michaelia Cash as Attorney-General is an indictment on the lack of talent, and standards, within Mr Morrison’s Government.
24 March 2021
Attorney-General Christian Porter has so little interest in tackling sexual harassment in Australian workplaces that in the year since he received the landmark Respect@Work report he did not meet once with either the Sex Discrimination Commissioner or his own department to discuss it
24 March 2021
The Morrison Government continues to overlook highly qualified women when it comes to making judicial appointments to the Federal Court Registry in Victoria.
23 March 2021
The Prime Minister now has no other option but to stand Christian Porter aside, after Senate Estimates confirmed the Attorney-General’s private defamation action against the ABC has left him hopelessly conflicted.
18 February 2021
The Morrison Government’s abolition of a stand-alone Family Court is a terrible decision that will affect the lives of thousands of vulnerable children and families.
17 February 2021
The Morrison Government has today voted to shut down debate in the Senate so that it can ram through its dangerous and radical proposal to effectively abolish the Family Court of Australia.
