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  • start of business
  •   delegation reports
    • delegation to the 98th inter-parliamentary union conference, cairo, and bilateral visit to kuwait
      • Mr SPEAKER
      • Mr GRIFFIN
      • Mr SINCLAIR
      • Mr QUICK
      • Mr SLIPPER
    • delegation to laos and thailand and to the aipo general assembly
      • Mrs SULLIVAN
      • Mr ADAMS
      • Mr HICKS
  •   private members business
    • older motor vehicles
      • Mr MARTYN EVANS
      • Mr BILLSON
      • Mr JENKINS
      • Mr EOIN CAMERON
      • Mr WILTON
      • Mrs WEST
  •   statements by members
    • filipino senior citizens society of sydney
      • Mr PRICE
    • literacy
      • Mr CHARLES
    • drugs
      • Mrs CROSIO
    • kelly, mr john douglas: death
      • Mr COBB
    • nursing homes
      • Mr FILING
    • rosalind park water cascades
      • Mr REID
    • injured workers: legal rights
      • Mr JENKINS
    • nursing homes
      • Mr RANDALL
    • filipino senior citizens society of sydney nursing homes
      • Mr MOSSFIELD
    • papua new guinea
      • Mr BROUGH
    • woden school
      • Ms ELLIS
    • domestic violence
      • Mr HOCKEY
  •   ministerial arrangements
    • Mr TIM FISCHER
  •   leader of the opposition
    • Mr GARETH EVANS
  •   questions without notice
    • asian financial issues (Mr GARETH EVANS)
    • asian financial issues (Mrs STONE)
    • taxation: family trusts (Mr WILLIS)
    • nursing homes (Dr NELSON)
    • taxation: family trusts (Mr GARETH EVANS)
    • greenhouse gases (Mr ANTHONY)
    • greenhouse gases (Mr GARETH EVANS)
    • telstra (Mr McARTHUR)
    • diesel fuel rebate scheme (Mr CAMPBELL)
    • waterfront productivity (Mr CHARLES)
    • minister for industry, science and tourism (Mr LEE)
    • work skills: rural and regional youth (Mr HAWKER)
    • nursing homes (Ms MACKLIN)
    • breast cancer (Dr SOUTHCOTT)
    • nursing homes (Ms MACKLIN)
    • immigration: asians (Mr GEORGIOU)
    • nursing homes (Mr LEE)
    • public service and merit protection commission (Mr NAIRN)
    • nursing homes (Ms MACKLIN)
    • workplace relations act: labour market (Mr REID)
  •   nursing homes
    • motion
      • Mr LEE
        • division
        • procedural text
      • Ms MACKLIN
        • division
        • procedural text
        • division
  •   personal explanations
    • Mr GARETH EVANS
  • presiding officers information technology advisory group (Mr PRICE)
  • personal explanations (Mr GARETH EVANS)
  • parliamentary behaviour (Mr LEE)
  •   petitions
    • australian pensioners and superannuants federation
    • funding: australian pensioners and superannuants federation
    • navy: service recognition
    • medicare office: marrickville
    • nursing homes
    • medicare office: salisbury
    • badgerys creek airport
    • small businesses
    • racism
    • forest protection
    • nursing care
    • medicare office: deer park
    • medicare office: mount druitt
    • badgerys creek airport
    • sbs television services
    • procedural text
  •   private members business
    • development approval process
      • Mr McDOUGALL
      • Mr KERR
      • Mr REID
      • Mr MARTIN
    • gambling
      • Mr BRADFORD
      • Mr PETER MORRIS
      • Mr ROSS CAMERON
      • Mr MARTIN
      • Mr ANTHONY
      • Mr HOLDING
  •   grievance debate
    • social democracy
      • Mr LATHAM
    • international trade: language studies
      • Dr SOUTHCOTT
    • technical and further education: new south wales
      • Mr MOSSFIELD
    • drugs
      • Mrs WEST
    • wood royal commission
      • Mr ALBANESE
    • law and order
      • Mr HARDGRAVE
    • medicare office closures greenhouse gases
      • Mr LAURIE FERGUSON
    • sales tax
      • Mr MAREK
  • assent to bills
  •   workplace relations and other legislation amendment bill 1997
    • consideration of senate message
  •   committees
    • native title and the aboriginal and torres strait islander land fund committee
      • report
        • Mr ENTSCH
        • Mr MELHAM
  •   social security legislation amendment (parenting and other measures) bill 1997
    • second reading
      • Miss JACKIE KELLY
      • Mr LEE
      • Mrs JOHNSTON
      • Mr ENTSCH
      • Mr RUDDOCK
        • division
        • procedural text
    • third reading
  • australian meat and live-stock industry bill 1997 cognate bills: australian meat and live-stock industry (repeals and consequential provisions) bill 1997 beef production levy amendment bill 1997
  •   buffalo export charge bill 1997 buffalo slaughter levy bill 1997 cattle (exporters) export charge bill 1997 cattle (producers) export charges bill 1997 cattle transactions levy bill 1997 live-stock slaughter (processors) levy bill 1997 live-stock transactions levy bill 1997 live-stock (exporters) export charge bill 1997 live-stock (producers) export charges bill 1997 national residue survey (buffalo slaughter) levy bill 1997 national residue survey (cattle transactions) levy bill 1997 national residue survey (cattle export) levy bill 1997 national residue survey (sheep, lambs and goats transactions) levy bill 1997 national residue survey (sheep, lambs and goats export) levy bill 1997
    • Mr RONALDSON
    • Mr O'KEEFE
    • Mrs JOHNSTON
    • Mr CAMPBELL
  •   adjournment
    • tax reform
      • Mr MOSSFIELD
    • delegation to laos and thailand and to the aipo general assembly
      • Mrs SULLIVAN
    • delegation to laos and thailand and to the aipo general assembly
      • Mr ADAMS
    • chronic fatigue syndrome
      • Mrs ELIZABETH GRACE
    • city of casey: volunteer transport service
      • Mr WILTON
    • refugee week
      • Mrs DRAPER
    • changi: prisoners of war
      • Dr NELSON
  • adjournment
  • notices
  • papers
  •   questions on notice
    • jandakot airport noise study (Dr Lawrence)
    • commonwealth employment service staff: electoral division of fremantle (Dr Lawrence)
    • minister for employment, education, training and youth affairs: legal advice (Mr Martin Ferguson)
    • unemployment: electoral division of barton (Mr McClelland)
    • aged care: bond certification system (Mr Mossfield)
    • aged care industry: senior skilled workers resignations (Mr Mossfield)
    • australian defence force airfields: cost of review (Mr Bevis)
    • commonwealth employment service staff: relocation allowances (Mr Campbell)
    • department of industry, science and tourism: installations on the georges river (Mr McClelland)
    • telstra: public telephones (Mr Bevis)
    • nursing homes and hostels: certification (Mr Allan Morris)

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