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  • start of business
  •   parliamentary office holders
    • temporary chairmen of committees
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   business
    • days and hours of meeting
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Milne, Sen Christine
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Evans, Sen Christopher
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
  •   bills
    • paid parental leave and other legislation amendment (dad and partner pay and other measures) bill 2012
      • second reading
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
      • third reading
        • Fawcett, Sen David (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • passenger movement charge amendment bill 2012
      • second reading
        • Ronaldson, Sen Michael
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • third reading
        • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
    • tax laws amendment (2012 measures no. 2) bill 2012, pay as you go withholding non-compliance tax bill 2012
      • second reading
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Edwards, Sen Sean
        • Sinodinos, Sen Arthur
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Williams, Sen John
        • division
      • third reading
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
    • financial framework legislation amendment bill (no. 3) 2012
      • first reading
        • Wong, Sen Penny
      • second reading
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
        • Polley, Sen Helen
  •   ministerial arrangements
    • Evans, Sen Christopher
  •   questions without notice
    • carbon pricing (Ronaldson, Sen Michael)
    • vocational education and training (Marshall, Sen Gavin)
    • carbon pricing (Birmingham, Sen Simon)
    • asylum seekers (Milne, Sen Christine)
    • carbon pricing (Williams, Sen John)
    • agriculture, fisheries and forestry (Moore, Sen Claire)
    • carbon pricing (Nash, Sen Fiona)
    • foreign investment (Madigan, Sen John)
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • remand population (Ludwig, Sen Joe)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • carbon pricing
      • Johnston, Sen David
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • Ronaldson, Sen Michael
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
      • Fawcett, Sen David
  •   personal explanations
    • Carr, Sen Bob
  •   condolences
    • edwards, dr harold raymond (harry)
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • withdrawal
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • australia's food processing sector committee
      • reporting date
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   motions
    • national disability insurance scheme
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   committees
    • joint select committee on the national disability insurance scheme
      • appointment
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • McLucas, Sen Jan
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Boyce, Sen Sue
        • division
  •   motions
    • migrant workers
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
    • domestic and family violence discrimination
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   matters of public importance
    • gillard government
      • Parry, Sen Stephen
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • Thistlethwaite, Sen Matt
      • Williams, Sen John
      • Brown, Sen Carol
      • Humphries, Sen Gary
      • Furner, Sen Mark
  •   committees
    • scrutiny of bills committee
      • report
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • finance and public administration legislation committee
      • report
        • Polley, Sen Helen
        • Faulkner, Sen John
  •   first speech
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   committees
    • treaties committee
      • report
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
  •   auditor-general's reports
    • reports nos 53 and 54 of 2011-12
      • Fawcett, Sen David (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
  •   committees
    • education, employment and workplace relations references committee, rural and regional affairs and transport references committee
      • government response to report
        • Wong, Sen Penny
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • government response to report
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
    • membership
      • Fawcett, Sen David (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Wong, Sen Penny
  •   bills
    • legislative instruments amendment (sunsetting measures) bill 2012
      • first reading
        • Wong, Sen Penny
      • second reading
        • Wong, Sen Penny
    • higher education support amendment (student contribution amounts and other measures) bill 2012, statute stocktake (appropriations) bill (no. 1) 2012, tax laws amendment (investment manager regime) bill 2012
      • first reading
        • Wong, Sen Penny
      • second reading
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Wong, Sen Penny
    • national broadcasting legislation amendment bill 2010
      • returned from the house of representatives
  •   committees
    • procedure committee
      • report
        • Parry, Sen Stephen
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
  •   bills
    • financial framework legislation amendment bill (no. 3) 2012
      • second reading
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • division
      • in committee
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • division
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • division
      • third reading
        • Wong, Sen Penny
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
  •   adjournment
    • Cameron, Sen Doug (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • asbestos
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • anzac day, slape, mr william
      • Williams, Sen John
    • year in review
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
    • thebarton senior college
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   questions on notice
    • job network (question no. 1805) (Abetz, Sen Eric)

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