MARK DREYFUS MP

A Shorten Labor Government will reverse the Abbott-Turnbull Governments cruel cuts to Trove, allowing the National Library to continue providing its unique online collection of Australian culture and history for current and future generations.

A Shorten Labor Government will support the re-establishment of Environmental Defenders Offices (EDOs), so they can continue to ensure that Australian environmental laws are complied with by corporations and governments.

Today it became embarrassingly clear that the Abbott-Turnbull Government plans to go to the 2016 election with absolutely no arts policy.

A Shorten Labor Government will deliver Community Legal Centres across the country the funding they need to keep their doors open, after three years of devastating cuts by the Abbott-Turnbull Government.

A Shorten Labor Government would ensure Community Legal Centres have the funds they need to keep their doors open and can continue to serve those in the community who need them the most.

A Shorten Labor Government will restore the essential role of the arts and creative industries to their rightful place in Australia's cultural and economic life.

A Shorten Labor Government will ensure the Northern Suburbs Community Legal Centres in Mirrabooka and Joondalup have the funds they need to keep their doors open and can continue to serve those in the community who need them the most.

Residents of Launceston have woken to the shocking news today that the Launceston Community Legal Centre will have to shed nearly half of its staff by December, thanks to harsh funding cuts by the Abbott-Turnbull Government.

A Shorten Labor Government will appoint a full-time LGBTI Discrimination Commissioner to the Australian Human Rights Commission.

I can confirm the office of Labor Senator Stephen Conroy has this evening been searched by the AFP. I understand two Labor staff members have also been named in warrants relating to this matter.