MARK DREYFUS MP

Today the High Court chose to uphold the Turnbull Government's $122 million postal survey as constitutionally valid.

The announcement by Sea Shepherd today that it will no longer be conducting its protests in the Southern Ocean will put a renewed focus on what action the Australian Government is taking to prevent Japan from ignoring the agreed moratorium.

The government's response to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Intellectual Property Arrangements is an attack on the publishing industry and Australian stories. The response has failed to deliver certainty that the future of the industry will be supported.

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse today released 85 new recommendations to improve the nation's criminal justice systems.

Revelations that the government's ridiculous $122 million postal survey on marriage equality will have no legal protections against voter fraud, bribery or deceptive campaign material have completely undermined its integrity before ballots are even sent out.

The outcome of this evening's coalition party room meeting is a severe disappointment to LGBTI Australians, their families, and those who love them

Today's ABC Radio Perth news reports that 95% of Indigenous Australians appearing in court have a mental or physical disability have reignited the discussion on the need for national justice targets under the Closing the Gap framework.

Even after the Parliament and Australian people comprehensively said no to a plebiscite on marriage equality, the government is keeping the zombie idea of a postal plebiscite alive

The Government's admission that they had no idea that Medicare numbers of Australians were up for grabs on the internet is alarming.

Shocking new data has revealed that judges in Newcastle's Family Circuit Court are straining under workloads twice the size of the national average thanks to the Turnbull Government's failure to fill a critical judicial position.