MARK DREYFUS MP

Member for Isaacs

Media Releases

Government response to Royal Commission recommendations

13 June 2018

Labor welcomes the Government's initial response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Labor taking action on forced marriage

08 June 2018

Today Labor committed to ground-breaking reform to tackle forced marriage alongside representatives from the Salvation Army, Anti-Slavery Australia and ACRATH Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans.

Bipartisan support on landmark Foreign Interference Bill

07 June 2018

Today's consensus report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security on the National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage and Foreign Interference) Bill 2017 is an important achievement.

Family Court: show us the evidence

30 May 2018

Labor welcomes the government's acknowledgement of the crisis in the family court system, and the pain it is causing families caught up in it.

Serious financial crime taskforce abolished

24 May 2018

Today the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions has confirmed that the government will end funding for the Serious Financial Crime Taskforce from July next year right after the expected completion of the Banking Royal Commission.

Porter backtracks on Integrity Commission

23 May 2018

After months of prevarication from the Coalition, Attorney-General Christian Porter has written to Labor and formally refused the offer of bipartisan support for the creation of a National Integrity Commission.

Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters into Section 44

17 May 2018

Labor welcomes the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters report into section 44 of the Constitution.

Turnbull blocking political donations transparency

16 May 2018

Turnbull's extraordinary attack on Queensland's political donation thresholds proves the Liberals will do anything to avoid improved transparency in Australia's democratic processes.

Porter cuts off CDPP at the knees

09 May 2018

The ability of the Commonwealth Prosecutor to tackle corporate crime including any recommendations for prosecution that will arise from the Financial Services Royal Commission has been called into doubt by significant cuts in last night's budget.

Turnbull government asleep as banks fail to protect consumer data

03 May 2018

Today’s revelations of lost customer data by Commonwealth Bank has shown the Turnbull government’s weakness yet again in failing to take a stand against big business abuse of consumer data and privacy.