MARK DREYFUS MP

Today marks the third anniversary of Scott Morrison’s 2019 election promise to establish a national anti-corruption commission. Three years later, nothing has happened. To this day, Mr Morrison has still not even brought a bill before the Parliament.

Veterans and other Australians are suffering massive delays in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, in large part because the Morrison-Joyce Government has stacked the Tribunal with an ever-growing number of Liberal mates who can’t or won’t do their jobs.

The limitations of the Morrison-Joyce Government’s ‘inquiry’ into the Religious Discrimination Bill are on full display, with the Government-controlled Joint Standing Committee on Human Rights signalling it does not even want to hear from individuals unless they are academics.  

The Morrison-Joyce Government is now refusing to commit to keeping its 2019 election promise to introduce a national anti-corruption commission.  

Today the Government’s long promised Religious Discrimination Bill has finally been introduced into Federal Parliament.

The Morrison-Joyce Government must abandon its attempts to force the establishment of a rushed and inadequate Senate inquiry into its Religious Discrimination Bill.

This Prime Minister never takes responsibility and always blames others for his own failures. Now Mr Morrison is trying to blame Labor for him failing to even bring legislation to Parliament to establish a Commonwealth anti-corruption commission.  

Labor warmly welcomes Professor Hilary Charlesworth’s election to the International Court of Justice.

Senate Estimates has confirmed taxpayers are footing the bill for yet another Morrison-Joyce Government Minister’s defamation case, this time for Michael Sukkar.

The Prime Minister’s promise of extra funding to fight domestic violence has been exposed as yet another heartless con.