MARK DREYFUS MP

Member for Isaacs

Media Releases

Broad agreement on marriage amendments needed

13 January 2017

Labor's Mark Dreyfus and Terri Butler have called on a Senate Select Committee to reach agreement on the terms of a bill for marriage equality, in a submission made this morning.

Mathias Cormann knew more on Bell

06 January 2017

Another week, another Turnbull minister with something to confess about how much they knew about the Bell affair.

Istanbul Terror Attack

02 January 2017

Labor utterly condemns the barbarous and deadly attack on the Reina Nightclub in Turkey.

Community groups united against 18C

29 December 2016

News today that ethnic community groups around the nation have mobilised in opposition to the Turnbull governments attack on protections against racial hate speech should surprise no-one except perhaps Mr Turnbull himself.

Bell group - what did Porter know?

27 December 2016

Christian Porter's late confession that he knew far more about the Bell Group saga than originally disclosed delivered just days before Christmas raises serious questions about the depth of his involvement in this sordid affair.

MYEFO confirms: Labor's policy is the only path to marriage equality

19 December 2016

Today, just days after Malcolm Turnbull declared the wasteful, hurtful $300 million plebiscite on marriage equality is still the Government's policy, it has been killed off in MYEFO.

Brandis refuses to rule out taking London posting

12 December 2016

This afternoon, under questioning from Labor senators at a hearing of the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, George Brandis was given the opportunity to rule out taking a diplomatic or judicial posting before the expiry of his current term in the Senate.

PM and Premiers must act on redress at COAG

09 December 2016

Malcolm Turnbull and the State Premiers must act to establish a National Redress Scheme for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse at today's COAG meeting in Canberra.

Labor will support Australian stories and Australian jobs

09 December 2016

A Shorten Labor Government will support our local publishing industry, and ensure authors can keep telling the Australian stories we love so dearly, by maintaining restrictions against imports of foreign copies of books that are published in Australia.

Turnbull ignores calls for Family Court reform

09 December 2016

The Turnbull Government continues to ignore calls from experts such as the Productivity Commission and leaders such as Rosie Batty to prevent domestic violence victims being cross-examined in court by their abusers.