MARK DREYFUS MP

Member for Isaacs

Media Releases

Labor Launches Financial Rights Access To Justice Package

26 February 2019

Labor will give Australians the legal firepower they need to take the fight to the banks with a $120 million contribution over four years from the Banking Fairness Fund to expand the financial rights legal assistance sector from 40 lawyers to 240 lawyers across Australia.

The Wheels Are Falling Off Porter's Election Bus With New Jobs For Mates Scandal

25 February 2019

As the wheels fall off the Morrison Government, scandal after scandal is showing hard-working Australians that this desperate government is only in it for themselves and their mates.

Government Looks After Their Own With AAT Appointments

21 February 2019

If Australians needed any more evidence after the events of today that this government is only in it for themselves Attorney-General Christian Porter has announced a staggering 86 appointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) after Parliament rose, full of Liberal mates.

Win For Commonsense On Encryption

14 February 2019

Today, the Senate passed a key Labor amendment to the Telecommunications and Other Legislation (Assistance and Access) Amendment Act, designed to tighten the definition of systemic weakness and better target the operation of powers in the Act. The government voted against this amendment.

Dutton's Citizenship Loss Bill Gives A Win To Terrorists

14 February 2019

Peter Dutton and Scott Morrison are trying to rush legislation through the parliament that could result in terrorists taking the Australian Government to the High Court and winning.

Stronger Powers For Police At Airports

13 February 2019

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security have today handed down a bipartisan report recommending the passage of the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Police Powers at Airports) Bill.

Labor Will Protect And Reward Banking Whistleblowers

03 February 2019

A Shorten Labor Government will protect and reward the brave Australians who blow the whistle on crime and corruption, including in the banking and financial sector.

Restoring Integrity To Judicial And AAT Appointments

01 February 2019

A Federal Labor government will restore the rigorous, transparent and accountable judicial appointments process Labor adopted when last in government, and apply a similar process to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) for the first time.

Dutton's incompetence costs taxpayers $34 million

22 January 2019

The Australian National Audit Office's Report into the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commissions Administration of the Biometric Identification Services Project is a damning indictment on the dysfunctional and incompetent Morrison Government and Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton.

Dutton puts personal ambition before due diligence on national security

02 January 2019

Reports today that Neil Prakash is not a Fijian citizen, according to the Fijian Immigration Department, raise concerns about what due diligence Mr Dutton did before he announced the stripping of Prakash's citizenship