MARK DREYFUS MP

The 2021 Budget confirms the Morrison Government has no intention to establish a national anti-corruption commission.

An Albanese Labor Government will strengthen laws to make it clear employers must take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment at work.

Further revelations around land deals in Western Sydney by the Coalition Government again highlights the need for a national anti-corruption commission.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The appointment of Michaelia Cash as Attorney-General is an indictment on the lack of talent, and standards, within Mr Morrison’s Government.

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

The Morrison Government continues to overlook highly qualified women when it comes to making judicial appointments to the Federal Court Registry in Victoria.