MARK DREYFUS MP

Member for Isaacs

Opinion pieces

George Brandis Has Failed The Test On Appointments To The Bench

18 December 2015

Making the right choices goes right to the core of the attorney-general's responsibility to maintain the integrity of our legal system. It is right that those who hold that office are held to account for these choices.

If George Brandis won't stand up for the Rule of Law, why is he the Attorney-General?

28 August 2015

Abbott and his attorney general should learn something from the fate of the Newman government and immediately abandon their attack on the rights of Australians and the rule of law.

Thuggish attacks on the Human Rights Commission should not be tolerated

17 February 2015

Australia wants governments with the ability to weather criticism with dignity, that have the integrity not to attack those institutions we have put deliberately beyond their control. Abbott and his ministers should be ashamed of themselves.

George Brandis, The Dangerously Divisive Attorney General

12 May 2014

The vast majority of the Australian public have made it clear that they utterly reject Brandis' deeply misguided views about bigotry in public debate.

We Can All Be Proud Of This Victory

03 April 2014

Australians from all sides of politics should be proud of the principled position our nation has taken against commercial whaling, a position we have fought for since the time of Prime Ministers Malcolm Fraser and Bob Hawke. And Australians from all sides of politics should be proud that with this legal victory we have brought an end to Japan's whaling program - a program that has killed over 10,000 whales under the guise of scientific research.

The Dreyfus Files - Labor says yes to a year of achievement

22 December 2011

Not only we do finish 2011 as a modern prosperous power, but we have a vision for future growth, and the policies to get us there.

The Dreyfus Files - Global action on climate change is happening

15 December 2011

For the first time, all of the world's major emitters, including the US and China, have committed to take on legal obligations to reduce carbon pollution.

The Dreyfus Files - Coalition should have red faces over costings

08 December 2011

Australians deserve the right to scrutinise the $70 billion in cuts the opposition is proposing and we shouldn't and won’t accept anything less.

The Dreyfus Files - Rewrites of history won't wash

01 December 2011

We have come to expect bleating and screeching from this opposition, but this level of nonsense and invention needs to be corrected.

The Dreyfus Files - Libs' sovereign risk talk is a cheap shot

24 November 2011

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and the Liberals have made it clear that they will oppose every government policy - lobbing everything they've got at us by way of attack.