MARK DREYFUS MP

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.

In his mad scrambling response to Labor's call for a Royal Commission into the banking and financial services, Treasurer Scott Morrison has ignored ASIC's own calls to improve Australia's corporate whistleblower laws.

Shadow Minister for Emergency Services Mark Dreyfus today visited the Blue Mountains town of Winmalee, devastated in a 2013 bushfire which claimed 200 homes, to see first-hand the difficulties victims are having in rebuilding their own homes.

Three years after mandatory data breach notification legislation was introduced into the Parliament by the Labor government, the Liberal Party is set to squib it on this important cyber-security measure once again

In an effort to make up for the poor performance of Scott Morrison in the House of Representatives yesterday, Senator Cormann has said several times today that he does not have the power to direct an investigation by the Australian Electoral Commission into the NSW Liberal Party's dodgy dealings with donations.

In the government's desperation to get its double-dissolution election trigger ready, Senator Brandis has forgotten the facts.