07 December 2016
It has been confirmed today that Senator Brandis's own office sought a briefing on the matter of the Bell Group liquidation as far back as mid-2015 - making the Attorney-Generals claims that he knew nothing of the matter until March 2016 utterly unbelievable.
01 December 2016
Today Australians were on the brink of finally being given a basic privacy protection which they have waited three years for, but the Government has squibbed it yet again.
29 November 2016
This afternoon the Senate voted to establish an inquiry into the Attorney-Generals gross mishandling of the Bell Group litigation in the High Court of Australia.
29 November 2016
Labor warmly welcomes the appointment of The Hon Susan Kiefel AC as Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, and the appointment of The Hon James Edelman to the High Court.
28 November 2016
Senator Brandis's statement in the Senate today was one of the most remarkable attempts at blame-shifting this Parliament has surely ever seen.
25 November 2016
Reports in this morning's West Australian newspaper, if true, suggest that George Brandis has put the interests of his West Australian Liberal mates ahead of the Commonwealth, the Constitution, the Australian Taxation Office, and hundreds of millions of dollars that was owed to the Australian taxpayer.
23 November 2016
Today in Question Time, Prime Minister Turnbull was offered the chance to join Labor in a bipartisan effort to stop family violence survivors being cross-examined by their abusers in court.
17 November 2016
The Turnbull Government's plan for a National Redress Scheme for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse has been thrown into doubt.
11 November 2016
In another sign of Malcolm Turnbull's inability to control the right wing of his party, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has this morning made an outrageous set of statements about Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act and the Australian Human Rights Commission.
10 November 2016
After all of the blustering, posturing and lying, it has come to this George Brandis has reversed his own Legal Services Direction, which limited the role of the Solicitor-General to such an extent that it forced Justin Gleeson to resign.
