MARK DREYFUS MP

The Government is committed to ensuring a strong regulatory framework to protect people’s right to privacy and ensuring the security of their personal information.

My university years coincided with the Whitlam Government, and the wave of social change it would bring inspired in me my passion for politics and its potential to improve lives.

That experience stayed with me all my life, that a progressive government can change the country. That experience that politics is a worthwhile activity has never left me.

It’s why I left the law to become an MP, and now, as Commonwealth Attorney-General have the great privilege to speak with Australia’s next generation of legal practitioners.

The Albanese Government is delivering on its promise to tackle corruption and restore trust and integrity to public institutions.

While law enforcement methods have evolved, we continue to grapple with new and innovative technologies that facilitate and hide the sexual abuse of children.

It was a Labor government that established the foundations of the anti-discrimination framework underpinned by international human rights law. The Albanese Government will build on that proud tradition of strengthening anti-discrimination law.

This Bill sends a clear message that the Albanese Government takes privacy, security and data protection seriously.

It is a great privilege, on behalf of the Australian Government and the Australian people, to welcome your Honour as a Justice of the High Court of Australia.

It is through meaningful partnership and collaboration with organisations such as the Centre that we can ensure the justice system is designed with those most important stakeholders – the Australian people – in mind.

As Attorney-General, I have an important role to play in safeguarding and promoting the rule of law.

The National Anti-Corruption Commission is a nation-building reform that will help restore trust in government and in Australian democracy.