13 September 2015
Labor welcomes the Prime Minister's strong support for action to end the scourge of family violence on our nation.
11 September 2015
More than nine months after announcing the creation of a new Book Council of Australia on 8 December 2014, the Minister for the Arts Senator Brandis today announced it once again in his speech to the Australian Society of Authors in Sydney.
07 September 2015
Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs Shayne Neumann and Shadow Minister for Women Senator Claire Moore met in Canberra today with representatives from Family Violence Prevention Legal Services from around the country and heard the importance these frontline services play to reduce victimisation and incarceration rates among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
06 September 2015
Tomorrow marks the two year anniversary of the Abbott Government's election.
04 September 2015
Today the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security released the report of its inquiry into the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Allegiance to Australia) Bill 2015.
04 September 2015
After promising to weaken protections against racist hate speech, which would have made it easier for Holocaust deniers to preach their hate, Attorney-General Senator George Brandis has today flagged new criminal laws to stop people seeking to espouse hatred, violence, or worse."
03 September 2015
At today's packed public hearing inquiring into cuts to arts funding, witnesses expressed deep concern about the future of the Tasmanian arts sector given the Government's harsh cuts to the Australia Council in the 2015/16 budget
31 August 2015
Tony Abbott's royal commission has descended into high farce, riddled with political bias.
31 August 2015
Labor calls on the Abbott Government to publicly release the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on redress, due to be handed to the Governor-General today.
20 August 2015
Labor is alarmed at today's report tobacco companies are hijacking Freedom of Information laws to obtain data from surveys by thousands of Victorian school children and teenagers that reveal their attitudes to smoking and alcohol.