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.
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.
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.
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.