The Latest Breaking News from Mark Dreyfus

Budgetary independence for corruption commission and wider ability to investigate also sought amid crossbench concern at omitted reforms

Thursday: A scheme to recruit an extra 2,000 doctors and nurses from abroad assisted just 24 people. Plus: record-breaking rainfall expected

Mark Dreyfus ‘cannot have confidence’ in current make-up of Administrative Appeals Tribunal, but won’t be drawn on recommendation to scrap body

Green senator says argument court used to overturn power to strip citizenship could also apply to temporary exclusion order regime

Moderate Liberal MP says Albanese government has opportunity to make parliament more collaborative

Here's your TL;DR for today's news.

Federal leaders say they will hold a meeting with the National Children's Commissioner to determine action to protect children after an ABC investigation reveals youths in care are being raped and neglected.

Greens senator Lidia Thorpe calls on Labor to pull appeal launched by Morrison government, saying Indigenous people ‘cannot be aliens to this country’

Labor says decision called into question the legal basis for former government’s ‘absurd attempt to regulate funded class actions out of existence’

PM opts to continue to prevent release of documents related to meetings with state leaders despite his previous criticism of the practice

As the Albanese government works on getting legislation ready for its highly anticipated corruption watchdog, calls are growing for it to boost protections for whistleblowers and drop criminal prosecutions against Richard Boyle, David McBride and Bernard Collaery, and to advocate for Julian Assange.