MARK DREYFUS MP

Malcolm Turnbull has done the right thing in stripping the Arts ministry from Senator George Brandis QC.

A Senate Committee has today rejected Tony Abbott's plan for a plebiscite on marriage equality, a plan that Malcolm Turnbull has made his own as the price of taking the Liberal leadership.

Labor welcomes the release of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse's Final report Redress and Civil Litigation.

Labor welcomes the Prime Minister's strong support for action to end the scourge of family violence on our nation.

More than nine months after announcing the creation of a new Book Council of Australia on 8 December 2014, the Minister for the Arts Senator Brandis today announced it once again in his speech to the Australian Society of Authors in Sydney.

Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs Shayne Neumann and Shadow Minister for Women Senator Claire Moore met in Canberra today with representatives from Family Violence Prevention Legal Services from around the country and heard the importance these frontline services play to reduce victimisation and incarceration rates among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Tomorrow marks the two year anniversary of the Abbott Government's election.

Today the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security released the report of its inquiry into the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Allegiance to Australia) Bill 2015.

After promising to weaken protections against racist hate speech, which would have made it easier for Holocaust deniers to preach their hate, Attorney-General Senator George Brandis has today flagged new criminal laws to stop people seeking to espouse hatred, violence, or worse."

At today's packed public hearing inquiring into cuts to arts funding, witnesses expressed deep concern about the future of the Tasmanian arts sector given the Government's harsh cuts to the Australia Council in the 2015/16 budget