MARK DREYFUS MP

The Morrison Government must move to appoint a new Independent National Security Legislation Monitor before the retirement of Dr James Renwick SC next week.

The Morrison Government is so terrified of being held to account, for the second week in a row it has refused to even allow a National Integrity Commission to be debated.

The Attorney-General Christian Porter has again shown his contempt for accountability and the Australian people by defying a Senate order to release his draft legislation for a National Integrity Commission.

The Senate has called time on the Morrison Governments endless delaying tactics, and ordered the Government to release its draft legislation for a National Integrity Commission.

The Morrison Government is now so terrified of being held to account it won't even allow a National Integrity Commission to be debated.

As National Reconciliation Week draws to a close, Labor is reiterating our call for the Government to adopt clear targets and policies to reduce rates of Indigenous incarceration and child removal.

Labor welcomes the High Courts decision that the Commonwealth was wrong to refuse access to the letters between Sir John Kerr and The Queen surrounding the 1975 Dismissal of the Whitlam Government.

Labor strongly welcomes the decision by Australian Federal Police to not proceed with charges against journalist Annika Smethurst.

Labor welcomes the Israeli court decision that Malka Leifer is mentally fit to be extradited to Australia.

Attorney-General Christian Porter has today found yet another excuse to delay action on a National Integrity Commission despite warnings "of huge corruption risks.