MARK DREYFUS MP

If we needed more proof that Senator Brandis is unfit to hold the office of Attorney-General, it was delivered in Senate Estimates last night.

Today's Senate inquiry has put beyond doubt that Senator Brandis has destroyed the integrity of the office of the Solicitor-General and knowingly misled the Senate. He must resign.

Proposed amendments to the Marriage Act, released late on Monday night by Senator George Brandis, would introduce new forms of legal discrimination against Australia's LGBTI community and deepen Labor's concerns about the governments wasteful, hurtful, $200 million plebiscite.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.