MARK DREYFUS MP

Member for Isaacs

Media Releases

Royal Commission Damaged Beyond Repair

31 August 2015

Tony Abbott's royal commission has descended into high farce, riddled with political bias.

The Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses To Child Sexual Abuse Redress Recommendations Must Be Made Public

31 August 2015

Labor calls on the Abbott Government to publicly release the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on redress, due to be handed to the Governor-General today.

Big Tobacco FOI Attack On Children A New Low

20 August 2015

Labor is alarmed at today's report tobacco companies are hijacking Freedom of Information laws to obtain data from surveys by thousands of Victorian school children and teenagers that reveal their attitudes to smoking and alcohol.

Government All Over The Shop In Rushed EPBC Announcement

18 August 2015

Today's announcement of changes to the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act is nothing but a pathetic attempt by the Abbott Government to distract from its political woes and its defence of Tony Abbott's besieged royal commissioner Dyson Heydon.

Arts Sector Blasts Abbott Government Budget Cuts

05 August 2015

At today's packed public hearing in Melbourne for the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs references Committee into the Impact of the 2014 and 2015 Commonwealth Budget decisions on the Arts, witnesses roundly condemned the Abbott Government's attack on the arts.

Labor Challenges Abbott Government Secrecy In Tribunal Hearing

28 July 2015

Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus today challenged the Abbott Government's secrecy in a hearing of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

More Need To Be Done To Counter Violent Extremism At Home

23 June 2015

Reports today reveal the Abbott Government has dropped the ball in regards to preventing radicalisation at home.

Craig Kelly Continues The Push To Repeal 18C

22 June 2015

NSW Liberal Member for Hughes, Craig Kelly has today used a bipartisan motion celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Racial Discrimination Act to continue the push to repeal Section 18C of the Act.

Senate Inquiry Confirms Cover-Up

19 June 2015

Two senior Coalition ministers misled parliament for at least four days so that they could avoid proper scrutiny about the Abbott Governments handling of a letter from the Lindt Cafe Siege gunman.

Inquiry Into Senator Brandis' Arts Slush Fund

17 June 2015

Art groups will have the opportunity previously denied to them to let the Abbott Government know what they think of its decision to strip $105 million from the Australia Council.