The Latest Breaking News from Mark Dreyfus

The attorney-general has released the government's plans to understand and tackle the role of coercive control in family and domestic violence.

Louise Beaston says their lives were shattered when her husband was charged after speaking out about the tax office’s pursuit of tax debts from small businesses

PM Anthony Albanese will visit China later this year at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, 50 years after Gough Whitlam’s historic visit, and the jostling begins for the seat of Liberal Senator Marise Payne as speculation mounts that she will retire from politics ‘imminently’.

After failing for several years to hand in a plan on government transparency, Australia has one more chance to get it right.

Lawyers to push forward with action against Salvatore Vasta after federal court found he committed ‘serious and fundamental errors’ in separate Mr Stradford case

Thank goodness for Senate committees. This week, they’ve proved, yet again, to be worth their weight in accountability gold.

Australia needs tougher protections for those who blow the whistle on corruption.

Donald Trump will face a federal criminal trial in Washington DC on March 4 2024, years earlier than he’d wanted, and Australia’s whistleblower protection laws ‘have not successfully protected a single person since their inception’.

Australian media organisations say they aren’t aware of any attempts by Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus to bring about reform.