16 March 2016
Prime Minister Turnbull is proceeding with a damaging, wasteful plebiscite on same-sex marriage to appease the right-wing of his party, and now cant even get on with his plans because of their latest offensive demands for exemptions from anti-discrimination laws. What a farce this important issue has become.
14 March 2016
A report by Pricewaterhouse Coopers released today, shows Malcolm Turnbull’s unnecessary and divisive plebiscite on marriage equality will cost the Australian economy a staggering $525 million.
06 March 2016
Senator George Brandis' admission on Sky News this morning that the Turnbull Liberals will waste $160m on a marriage equality plebiscite before the end of the year has exposed the lengths Malcolm Turnbull is going to placate the far right wing of his party.
03 March 2016
Malcolm Turnbull today confirmed in Question Time that there will be no single national redress scheme for survivors of child sexual abuse.
02 March 2016
Labor warmly congratulates Helen Garner on being recognised in the 2016 Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes.
01 March 2016
With the horrific extent of child sexual abuse ever clearer thanks to the current hearings of the Royal Commission, Prime Minister Turnbull must wait no longer to unequivocally commit to a national redress scheme for survivors of child sexual abuse.
29 February 2016
I wish to congratulate the Australians who have triumphed at the Academy Awards today in Los Angeles, in particular the makers of Mad Max: Fury Road which has taken home six awards and completed a near-clean sweep of all technical categories.
25 February 2016
Prime Minister Turnbull must reconsider the appointment of hardliner Andrew Nikolic as the Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, one of the most powerful committees in our Parliament, which oversees all national security legislation and ensures fundamental rights and freedoms of Australians are not put at risk.
23 February 2016
The National Library will be the first victim of the Turnbull government's shameful multi-million dollar cuts to Australia's flagship cultural institutions, with key services and personnel facing the axe.
23 February 2016
A report released yesterday by the Human Rights Law Centre has detailed the Abbott-Turnbull Government's attacks on Australian civil society, which are slowly but surely undermining our democracy.
