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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • law enforcement committee
      • meeting
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   motions
    • death penalty
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • treasury laws amendment (personal income tax plan) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • division
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
      • in committee
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • division
        • Storer, Sen Timothy
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
  •   statements by senators
    • royal flying doctor service, drought
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
    • shop, distributive and allied employees' association, cooper, professor david, ac
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
    • marine plastic pollution
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
    • education
      • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
    • music industry, john lennon educational tour bus
      • Sterle, Sen Glenn
    • department of veterans' affairs
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
    • james cook university, australian national university
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • child care, early childhood education
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher
  •   questions without notice
    • telstra (Carr, Sen Kim)
    • infrastructure (O'Sullivan, Sen Barry)
    • income tax (McAllister, Sen Jenny)
    • asylum seekers (McKim, Sen Nicholas)
    • space industry (Colbeck, Sen Richard)
    • defence procurement (Patrick, Sen Rex)
    • northern australia infrastructure facility (Macdonald, Sen Ian)
    • taxation (Leyonhjelm, Sen David)
    • australian broadcasting corporation (O'Neill, Sen Deb)
    • defence (Reynolds, Sen Linda)
    • special broadcasting service (Farrell, Sen Don)
    • national disability insurance scheme (Stoker, Sen Amanda)
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • division
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Wong, Sen Penny
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • telstra
      • Carr, Sen Kim
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
  •   first speech
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • Stoker, Sen Amanda
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • telstra
      • Fawcett, Sen David
      • Watt, Sen Murray
    • defence procurement
      • Patrick, Sen Rex
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • withdrawal
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • membership
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • rural and regional affairs and transport references committee
      • reference
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • McGrath, Sen James
  •   motions
    • world haemochromatosis week
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • johnson, mr tori
      • Bushby, Sen David
    • asylum seekers
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • division
    • immigration detention
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • division
    • world refugee day
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • division
    • preventive health
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • division
  •   documents
    • great barrier reef
      • order for the production of documents
        • Carr, Sen Kim
  •   motions
    • world refugee day
      • Pratt, Sen Louise
    • brain cancer
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • feral animals
      • Anning, Sen Fraser
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • Rice, Sen Janet
  •   documents
    • future submarine project
      • order for the production of documents
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • McGrath, Sen James
  •   condolences
    • funde, mr eddie
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   motions
    • fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
      • Griff, Sen Stirling
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • marine plastic pollution
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • child sexual abuse
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • goods and services tax
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Georgiou, Sen Peter
      • McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri
      • division
  •   bills
    • treasury laws amendment (personal income tax plan) bill 2018
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
      • third reading
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • division
  •   adjournment
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • grandparent carers
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • braddon by-election
      • Brown, Sen Carol
    • ex-med cancer
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • voting age
      • Steele-John, Sen Jordon
    • united nations human rights council
      • Anning, Sen Fraser
    • united nations human rights council, young liberal movement, cancer, braddon by-election
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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