MARK DREYFUS MP

Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus today visited two Community Legal Centres with local candidates Peta Murphy and Julian Hill to hear first-hand of their struggles to continue providing vital frontline services to domestic violence victims despite $24 million in cuts from the Abbott-Turnbull government.

Saul Same was a true friend of Labor, but he was also much more than that.

The Treasurer is in trouble, again, this time on the back of factually inaccurate comments on the powers of a Royal Commission compared to those of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

A Shorten Labor Government will hold a Royal Commission into misconduct in the banking and financial services industry.

Further allegations of foreign bribery in The Age today suggest that Leighton Holdings dirty dealings overseas go far deeper than first thought

Revelations this evening that personal information delivered in confidence to the Trade Union Royal Commission has been sent mistakenly to third parties is yet more evidence of the farcical nature of the entire process.

Always unpredictable, always interesting, always prolific, Bob Ellis will be a great loss to Australian literature, Australian film, and Australian politics.

According to reports today, Mr Turnbull has chosen Arthur Sinodinos, the man embroiled in the biggest donations scandal in the history of the New South Wales Liberal Party, to headline a $8,000-a-head fundraiser with him.

The Abbott-Turnbull Government has all but confirmed it will abolish the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT), which was established by the previous Labor Government to ensure Australian roads were safer for all users.

Prime Minister Turnbull and his Attorney-General George Brandis have gone to great lengths to present their decision today to use the Governor-General to override Parliament as a normal and unremarkable occurrence.