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.
15 February 2016
The Turnbull Government must re-appoint a full-time Disability Discrimination Commissioner following Tim Wilson's decision to resign as Human Rights Commissioner to seek Liberal Party pre-selection in the seat of Goldstein.
11 February 2016
George Brandis finds the idea that Professor Gillian Triggs would be included in a selection panel for the new Sex Discrimination Commissioner personally offensive according to reports today well, Senator Brandis, the nation finds your running grudge against the Human Rights Commission President personally offensive.
11 February 2016
Labor welcomes the much-delayed appointment of Kate Jenkins as the new Sex Discrimination Commissioner, who will take the role vacated by Elizabeth Broderick five months ago.
10 February 2016
New arts minister Mitch Fifield has shown his true colours in continuing the Abbott Government's antipathy toward the arts sector, starting with $20 million in cuts to our national cultural institutions.
09 February 2016
The shocking revelation that Professor Gillian Triggs was never consulted about the imminent appointment of a new Sex Discrimination Commissioner makes a mockery of the due process the government has said it would follow, showing once again that the position has become captive to Liberal Party infighting.
