11 October 2016
Today in Question Time Justice Minister Michael Keenan repeated Attorney-General Senator Brandis's claim that the Solicitor-General was consulted before a legally-binding direction was made which vastly limited his independence.
07 October 2016
Reports today that Attorney-General Senator George Brandis has been opinion shopping for legal advice goes to the heart of concerns about the failure of Senator Brandis to work with Australia's second law officer, Solicitor-General Justin Gleeson.
05 October 2016
Attorney-General Senator George Brandis has been caught lying to the Australian Parliament over his claim that he consulted the Solicitor-General, Justin Gleeson, prior to amending the Legal Services Direction.
29 September 2016
Labor applauds Attorney-General George Brandis for finally accepting the need to preserve the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, two years after attempting to abolish it.
28 September 2016
New reports showing more Australians support a parliamentary vote than a plebiscite on marriage equality show people want the Turnbull government to do its job.
18 September 2016
Senator George Brandis has finally injected some honesty into the Government's position on the marriage equality plebiscite, admitting today that it wasn't his "preferred option" but was forced on the Government by the radical right wing running the party room.
17 September 2016
Federal Labor applauds the announcement today by the Victorian state government that the former Australian Emergency Management Institute in Mount Macedon, cruelly shut last year by the Abbott-Turnbull government, will be reopened.
15 September 2016
Malcolm Turnbull today confirmed in Question Time that there will be no single national redress scheme for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse, while there is a Liberal Government.
15 September 2016
The Senate has today voted by a substantial majority to establish an inquiry into Senator George Brandis's appalling attack on the independence of the Solicitor-General.
12 September 2016
The Turnbull Government's $160 million plebiscite on marriage equality has not even gone to cabinet and already the government has descended into open warfare.
