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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
  •   documents
    • perth freight link
      • order for the production of documents
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Back, Sen Chris
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Lines, Sen Susan
  •   questions without notice
    • pauline hanson's one nation (Ketter, Sen Christopher)
    • indigenous employment (Williams, Sen John)
    • pauline hanson's one nation (Sterle, Sen Glenn)
    • social services legislation amendment (omnibus savings and child care reform) bill 2017 (Siewert, Sen Rachel)
    • renewable energy (Fawcett, Sen David)
    • education funding (Collins, Sen Jacinta)
    • iraq and syria (Reynolds, Sen Linda)
    • child sexual abuse (Hinch, Sen Derryn)
    • industry (Carr, Sen Kim)
    • energy (O'Sullivan, Sen Barry)
    • defence land acquisition (Watt, Sen Murray)
    • international development assistance (Back, Sen Chris)
    • taxation (Gallagher, Sen Katy)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • pauline hanson's one nation
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher
      • Hume, Sen Jane
      • Sterle, Sen Glenn
      • Back, Sen Chris
      • Pratt, Sen Louise
    • social services legislation amendment (omnibus savings and child care reform) bill 2017
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   committees
    • reporting date
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   motions
    • port augusta ash dams
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • order of australia
      • Bushby, Sen David
    • female genital mutilation
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • wildlife management: bathurst
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   documents
    • perth freight link
      • order for the production of documents
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • McGrath, Sen James
        • Kakoschke-Moore, Sen Skye
  •   motions
    • q society fundraiser
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • division
  •   motions
    • q society fundraiser
      • Dastyari, Sen Sam
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • division
  •   motions
    • leader of the government in the senate
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • division
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   motions
    • papua new guinea: asylum seekers
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • division
  •   matters of public importance
    • renewable energy
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • Back, Sen Chris
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
      • Marshall, Sen Gavin
      • Paterson, Sen James
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • public works committee
      • report
        • Williams, Sen John
    • education and employment legislation committee
      • additional information
        • Williams, Sen John
    • public accounts and audit committee
      • government response to report
        • Payne, Sen Marise
  •   ministerial statements
    • closing the gap
      • Payne, Sen Marise
  •   documents
    • bell group liquidation
      • order for the production of documents
        • Payne, Sen Marise
  •   committees
    • select committee on the establishment of a national integrity commission
      • membership
        • Payne, Sen Marise
  •   bills
    • agriculture and water resources legislation amendment bill 2016, excise levies legislation amendment (honey) bill 2016
      • first reading
        • Payne, Sen Marise
      • second reading
        • Payne, Sen Marise
    • customs and other legislation amendment bill 2016, customs tariff amendment bill 2016, superannuation amendment (pssap membership) bill 2016, treasury laws amendment (2016 measures no. 1) bill 2016
      • first reading
        • Payne, Sen Marise
      • second reading
        • Payne, Sen Marise
  •   committees
    • economics legislation committee
      • report
        • Williams, Sen John
    • legal and constitutional affairs legislation committee—report—migration legislation amendment (code of procedure harmonisation) bill 2016
      • report
        • Williams, Sen John
  •   documents
    • closing the gap
      • consideration
        • Payne, Sen Marise
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Dodson, Sen Patrick
        • McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
  •   bills
    • transport security legislation amendment bill 2016
      • second reading
        • Farrell, Sen Don
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Sterle, Sen Glenn
  •   adjournment
    • Gallacher, Sen Alex (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • azerbaijan: khojaly tragedy
      • Back, Sen Chris
    • bosman, mr leonard lewis
      • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
    • united nations
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
    • defence properties
      • Watt, Sen Murray
    • victoria: crime
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
    • palliative care tasmania
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • tasmania
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • brandis, senator george, pauline hanson's one nation
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher
    • migration
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
    • jones, hon. peter, am
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • tasmania: innovation
      • Polley, Sen Helen
    • western australia: economy
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • western australia: government
      • Pratt, Sen Louise
    • queensland economy
      • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
    • women's rights
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
    • tasmania
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
    • smith, ms kathy
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
    • tasmania: aquaculture industry
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
    • forestry
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • climate change
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
    • housing, westconnex
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling
    • tabling

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