MARK DREYFUS MP

Member for Isaacs

Media Releases

Keenan follows Brandis in misleading Parliament

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.

Brandis opinion shopping another sign of government dysfunction

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.

Brandis lied to Parliament over Solicitor-General

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.

Labor welcomes Information Commissioner backdown

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.

Time for Turnbull to allow a free vote on marriage equality

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.

Honest George doesn't want a plebiscite

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.

Labor re-opens Victoria's Emergency Management Institute

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.

Turnbull confirms no National Redress Scheme for survivors of child sexual abuse

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.

Senate Inquiry into George Brandis's attack on the Solicitor-General

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.

Government makes a mess of marriage equality

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.