MARK DREYFUS MP

Labor is deeply concerned that Australia has been the target of commercial intellectual property theft, including by a group known as APT10, acting on behalf of the Chinese Ministry of State Security.

Reports today that Japan will withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) need to be immediately verified by the Government and legal advice needs to be sought as to what this means for the moratorium on commercial whaling.

Today marks the first anniversary of the Final Report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Today, after 12 months of denial, the government has been dragged kicking and screaming to a National Integrity Commission but it's clear Scott Morrison is not being honest here.

Last night the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security handed down a bipartisan report with 17 important recommendations for amendment to the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill.

Labor has spent five years responsibly improving national security legislation to make Australians safer, and we have done the same thing today.

Government Senators have teamed up with Centre Alliance to block a vote to remove exemptions in the Sex Discrimination Act relating to discrimination against LGBTIQ kids - in breach of Prime Minister Morrison's commitment to deal with the matter urgently.

Labor will introduce a Private Members Bill to remove exemptions in the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 that allow religious schools to discriminate against LGBTI students.

Today's revelations that Peter Dutton's capacity to make decisions as a Minister and cancel visas is being challenged in the Federal Court shows the cost of the Morrison Governments refusal to refer Mr Dutton to the High Court.

Today's farce over a National Integrity Commission is more proof of how divided, chaotic and out of touch Morrison and his Liberals are.