Australia’s peak Jewish representative body has written to Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus KC MP expressing “deep disappointment” over Labor’s decision...
Three senior members of the Federal Opposition are querying why the National Socialist Network and Combat-18 have not been branded as a terrorist organisation following journalist Nick McKenzie’s expose screened on 60 Minutes and published in The Age and 'The Sydney Morning Herald.
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) has recommended the Federal government consider listing Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organisation.
The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has condemned the views of the former Liberal candidate for the Melbourne seat of Isaacs for his disgraceful anti-Muslim comments.
The Abbott government's botched attempt in 2014 to repeal section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act- the law that has drawn a line against racial abuse, Holocaust denial and harmful hate speech for more than 20 years was one of its biggest failures...writes Mark Dreyfus.
A delegation of 50 AUJS students from around Australia has visited Canberra to develop their political knowledge and skills, by meeting with many of the nation's senior leaders in Parliament House...including Malcolm Turnbull days before he became Prime Minister.
Mark Dreyfus is the Shadow Attorney-General and has faced a media conference dealing with the plans to repeal Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.
The Abbott Government is committed to repealing Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. This sensitive topic was the subject of two important exchanges in parliament today...in the Senate, Attorney-General Senator George Brandis declared that "people have a right to be bigots" and in the House of Representatives Prime Minister Tony Abbott said: "Sometimes free speech will be speech which upsets people".
Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has been interviewed on Sky News on his views on the Abbott Government's proposed to repeal Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. Read the transcript.
After a hard fought Question Time yesterday, two groups of Labor MPs, staffers and candidates gathered for a refreshing SodaStream drink organised by Michael Danby MP and Mike Kelly, the former Member for Eden Monaro, and current International Affairs advisor to Opposition Leader Bill Shorten.
APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre have awarded the Distinguished Services to Australian Music honour at this week's 2013 ART Music Awards to composer George Dreyfus.
Federal police were called to meet a Qantas flight landing in Brisbane last week...requested to to do when a passenger refused to switch off his mobile phone as the plane prepared for take-off at Sydney.
