18 August 2015
Today's announcement of changes to the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act is nothing but a pathetic attempt by the Abbott Government to distract from its political woes and its defence of Tony Abbott's besieged royal commissioner Dyson Heydon.
05 August 2015
At today's packed public hearing in Melbourne for the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs references Committee into the Impact of the 2014 and 2015 Commonwealth Budget decisions on the Arts, witnesses roundly condemned the Abbott Government's attack on the arts.
28 July 2015
Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus today challenged the Abbott Government's secrecy in a hearing of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
23 June 2015
Reports today reveal the Abbott Government has dropped the ball in regards to preventing radicalisation at home.
22 June 2015
NSW Liberal Member for Hughes, Craig Kelly has today used a bipartisan motion celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Racial Discrimination Act to continue the push to repeal Section 18C of the Act.
19 June 2015
Two senior Coalition ministers misled parliament for at least four days so that they could avoid proper scrutiny about the Abbott Governments handling of a letter from the Lindt Cafe Siege gunman.
17 June 2015
Art groups will have the opportunity previously denied to them to let the Abbott Government know what they think of its decision to strip $105 million from the Australia Council.
17 June 2015
Allan Browne, Australian jazz great, has died in Melbourne, aged 70.
16 June 2015
An urgent Senate inquiry will be held into the Abbott Governments handling of a letter to Attorney-General George Brandis from the Lindt Cafe siege gunman Man Haron Monis.
15 June 2015
Tony Abbott has gagged federal parliament to prevent it debating his ministers failure to properly correct misleading statements about a letter from the Lindt Cafe siege gunman.
