MARK DREYFUS MP

Labor welcomes the Australian Law Reform Commission's review of the family law system, the first since the 1970s.

Labor is urging Australians to make sure they have received their marriage equality survey form in the post, and to contact authorities to address any irregularities.

Labor welcomes today's report by the Select Committee into a National Integrity Commission.

All organisations responsible for horrific child sexual abuse must meet their obligations as part of the proposed national redress scheme.

Labor remains steadfastly opposed to the government's wasteful, hurtful $122 million postal survey on marriage equality which we've already seen has inflicted hurt and suffering on vulnerable LGBTI Australians and their families.

The Minister for Social Services, Christian Porter must urgently introduce legislation to establish a nationally consistent redress scheme for survivors of child sexual abuse.

Today the High Court chose to uphold the Turnbull Government's $122 million postal survey as constitutionally valid.

The announcement by Sea Shepherd today that it will no longer be conducting its protests in the Southern Ocean will put a renewed focus on what action the Australian Government is taking to prevent Japan from ignoring the agreed moratorium.

The government's response to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Intellectual Property Arrangements is an attack on the publishing industry and Australian stories. The response has failed to deliver certainty that the future of the industry will be supported.

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse today released 85 new recommendations to improve the nation's criminal justice systems.