The Latest Breaking News from Mark Dreyfus

Last month the BBC was raided by Indian authorities after it aired a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Leaders from the credit, financing, accounting and legal sectors and consumer groups have discussed bankruptcy reform with the government and regulators.

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Federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says journalists should not be prosecuted for doing their jobs, amid reforms to press freedom and national secrecy laws.

Rwanda is the only other country to have had a visit cancelled, with Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner calling decision ‘disappointing’

The US case against Assange is a ‘direct threat to every publisher in that room’, a prominent silk said.

Australians would be able to demand companies delete their personal information under a European-style overhaul of privacy laws.

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus yesterday released a report with 30 proposals for updating Australia’s privacy regime. The proposals are practical, necessary and overdue. However, they are just proposals, which have been made several times in the past before disappearing into the “too hard basket” of the Australian, state and territory governments.

We’re still ‘stopping the boats’ with even stronger border patrols after ditching temporary protection visas, and Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has vowed to establish a treaty with First Nations peoples.