MARK DREYFUS MP

In yesterday's Budget Senator Brandis locked in harsh cuts to vital legal assistance services, which will result in Australians in need being turned away from their doors.

Malcolm Turnbull has smashed the hopes of thousands of survivors of child sexual abuse in last night's budget by failing to allocate any funding for a national redress scheme.

Last night's budget has done nothing to reverse damage done to the arts by the Abbott-Turnbull government, and locks in harsh cuts to national cultural institutions.

Malcolm Turnbull is continuing Tony Abbott's ideological attack on environmental advocacy groups.

Arts minister Mitch Fifield has chosen the day before the budget to unceremoniously dump details of 79 arts grants from his Catalyst fund, without so much as a press release.

Today, late on a Friday afternoon the week before the budget, Attorney-General George Brandis released his response to a vital Productivity Commission report on Access to Justice delivered to him 17 months ago in September 2014.

Another day, another example of the Turnbull Government following Labor's lead on an important policy issue.

A Shorten Labor Government will appoint a full-time Disability Discrimination Commissioner to the Australian Human Rights Commission.

Labor welcomes today's belated announcement that Australian law enforcement agencies will get a $15 million funding boost to tackle the scourge of foreign bribery, delivered by the Abbott-Turnbull government as it finally responds to repeated calls throughout its three-year term to take the problem seriously.

Revelations from today's Senate Economics Committee inquiry raise serious concerns about the ability of Australian law enforcement agencies to act swiftly on allegations of foreign bribery.