MARK DREYFUS MP

With the Northern Territory due to lose its essential shortwave radio service tomorrow, the Government is ignoring Labor's calls to do all it can to continue this critical communications service and ensure listeners in the bush are not cut off.

Once again the Turnbull Government has shown absolute contempt for Australian consumers seeking information about the NBN.

With just over a week until the Northern Territory is due to lose its vital shortwave radio service, Indigenous Affairs Minister and Country Liberal Senator for the Northern Territory Nigel Scullion made his first, limp protest.

Labor condemns the resumption of illegal whaling by a Japanese fleet inside the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, reported over the weekend.

Labor encourages Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to use this weekend's visit from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to raise the issue of illegal Japanese whaling happening now in protected waters.

Labor's Mark Dreyfus and Terri Butler have called on a Senate Select Committee to reach agreement on the terms of a bill for marriage equality, in a submission made this morning.

Another week, another Turnbull minister with something to confess about how much they knew about the Bell affair.

Labor utterly condemns the barbarous and deadly attack on the Reina Nightclub in Turkey.

News today that ethnic community groups around the nation have mobilised in opposition to the Turnbull governments attack on protections against racial hate speech should surprise no-one except perhaps Mr Turnbull himself.

Christian Porter's late confession that he knew far more about the Bell Group saga than originally disclosed delivered just days before Christmas raises serious questions about the depth of his involvement in this sordid affair.