MARK DREYFUS MP

The abuse of children in the care of institutions has been one of the most appalling chapters of Australia's recent history.

Federal Labor welcomes the Interim Report of the Royal commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory.

The debate over the government's Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 has finally ended with a whimper.

Last night's defeat of changes to section 18C in the Senate is a victory for multicultural Australia of which we should all be proud.

Today the Native Title Amendment (Indigenous Land Use Agreement) Bill was withdrawn from debate in the Senate, thanks to George Brandis's incompetent handling of the Bill.

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.