MARK DREYFUS MP

The Government is falsely claiming that it is strengthening the law by removing insult, offend and humiliate from section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.

On Monday night the Australian Taxation Office made a significant revelation about the Bell Group matter in March 2016, they suspected George Brandis was about to issue a direction to stop them intervening in the Bell High Court case, and they were so worried that they sought legal advice about how to handle that possibility.

Today a Senate motion introduced by Labor and co-sponsored by Senators Jacqui Lambie, Derryn Hinch, the Greens and the Nick Xenophon Team condemning the governments cruel cuts to Community Legal Centres (CLCs) has passed the Senate.

Communications Minister Mitch Fifield has once again failed to bring the Turnbull Government’s flawed media reform legislation into the Senate.

The Labor Party is encouraged by reports today that the Prime Minister might finally overturn his government's ridiculous opposition to implementing justice targets under the Closing the Gap framework.

Today's story in The Australian newspaper is utterly false. There is no secret plan to overhaul discrimination law in this country.

Labor will strengthen native title protections for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians when the Native Title Amendment (Indigenous Land Use Agreement) Bill returns to the Parliament.

Labor congratulates Justin Milne on his appointment as the new Chairman of the ABC.Mr Milne is certainly qualified for the role given his extensive experience in, and knowledge of, the media industry.

Finally, we have an answer to the question of how much more racial hate speech will be allowed under the proposed changes to Section 18C, courtesy of Andrew Bolt five times as much.

In a test of the Prime Minister's leadership - which he has failed miserably, Malcolm Turnbull is prepared to trade away protections for Australia's multicultural communities in order to save his own skin.