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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   petitions
    • medicare
    • nuclear disarmament
    • local government (personal income tax sharing) act
    • metric system
    • wynyard airport, tasmania
    • meat export inspection charges
    • education
    • education
    • discrimination against women
    • sex discrimination legislation
    • sex discrimination legislation
    • sex discrimination legislation
    • procedural text
  •   presentation of papers
    • Senator RYAN
  •   australian meat research committee
    • annual report 1982-83
      • Senator ARCHER
      • Senator TATE
  •   australia-japan tuna long-line fishing agreement
    • Senator ARCHER
    • Senator BOSWELL
  •   aussat pty ltd
    • Senator JESSOP
  •   national advisory committee on computers in schools
    • report
      • Senator PETER BAUME
      • Senator HAINES
  •   implementation of the supplementary licence scheme
    • ministerial statement
      • Senator CHIPP
  •   second commonwealth conference on delegated legislation
    • Senator COATES
    • Senator MISSEN
    • Senator LEWIS
  •   standing committee on finance and government operations
    • Senator COATES
  •   joint committee of public accounts
    • 213th report
      • Senator MAGUIRE
      • Senator GEORGES
  •   select committee on passenger fares and services to and from tasmania
    • ministerial statement
      • Senator GIETZELT
      • Senator HARRADINE
  •   order of business
    • Senator HARRADINE
    • Senator CHANEY
    • Senator GIETZELT
  •   bank accounts debits tax legislation amendment bill 1983
    • second reading
      • Senator BUTTON
      • Senator Dame MARGARET GUILFOYLE
      • Senator HARRADINE
      • Senator BUTTON
    • in committee
      • Senator JACK EVANS
      • Senator BUTTON
    • third reading
  •   taxation administration amendment bill 1983
    • second reading
  •   conciliation and arbitration amendment bill (no. 2) 1983
    • Senator DURACK
    • Senator FOREMAN
    • Senator WALTERS
    • Senator COOK
  •   radiocommunications (transitional provisions and consequential amendments) bill 1983 radiocommunications taxes collection bill 1983 radiocommunications (frequency reservation certificate tax) bill 1983 radiocommunications (receiver licence tax) bill 1983 radiocommunications (temporary permit tax) bill 1983 radiocommunications (test permit tax) bill 1983 radiocommunications (transmitter licence tax) bill 1983
    • first readings
      • Senator GILES
      • Senator MACKLIN
  •   questions without notice
    • pensions: assets test (Senator MESSNER)
    • pensions: assets test (Senator ROBERTSON)
    • pensions: assets test (Senator LAJOVIC)
    • australian national line (Senator CHILDS)
    • women: part time study (Senator HAINES)
    • australian secret intelligence service (Senator BOLKUS)
    • pensioner assets test (Senator WALTERS)
    • interest rates (Senator MAGUIRE)
    • northern territory: uranium mining (Senator KILGARIFF)
    • diethylstilboestrol (Senator HEARN)
    • tariff preferences (Senator SCOTT)
    • employees compensation (Senator CROWLEY)
    • sex education in schools (Senator BOSWELL)
    • tariff protection (Senator COOK)
    • non-government school funding (Senator PETER BAUME)
    • department of foreign affairs (Senator PRIMMER)
    • medicare advertising (Senator BJELKE-PETERSEN)
    • unemployment: longreach shire, queensland (Senator JONES)
    • tertiary education assistance scheme (Senator WATSON)
    • new caledonia (Senator SIBRAA)
    • imported light commercial and four-wheel drive vehicles (Senator CHANEY)
    • mr bruce bond: statements on assets test (Senator COATES)
    • diethylstilboestrol (Senator MARTIN)
  •   australian atomic energy commission
    • Senator CHANEY
  •   uranium advisory council
    • Senator CHANEY
    • Senator CHIPP
  •   commissioner for employees compensation
    • Senator CROWLEY
    • Senator COOK
  •   repatriation review tribunal
    • Senator SCOTT
  •   australian aid to vietnam
    • Senator HILL
    • Senator TEAGUE
      • division
  • order of business
  •   insurance contracts bill 1983
    • second reading
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
  •   telecommunications (interception) amendment bill 1983
    • second reading
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
  •   live-stock slaughter (export inspection charge) validation bill 1983
    • second reading
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
  •   insurance amendment bill 1983
    • second reading
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
  •   life insurance amendment bill 1983
    • second reading
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
  •   commonwealth electoral legislation amendment bill 1983
    • in committee
      • Senator MACKLIN
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
      • Senator MACKLIN
      • Senator ROBERT RAY
      • Senator MACKLIN
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
      • Senator PETER BAUME
      • Senator ROBERT RAY
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
      • Senator MACKLIN
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
      • Senator HARRADINE
      • Senator PETER BAUME
      • Senator MACKLIN
      • Senator MACKLIN
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
      • Senator PETER BAUME
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
      • Senator HARRADINE
        • division
        • procedural text
      • Senator MACKLIN
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
      • Senator PETER BAUME
      • Senator MACKLIN
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
      • Senator HARRADINE
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
      • Senator MACKLIN
      • Senator HARRADINE
      • Senator ROBERT RAY
      • Senator PETER BAUME
      • Senator Sir JOHN CARRICK
      • Senator ROBERT RAY
      • Senator PETER BAUME
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
      • Senator Sir JOHN CARRICK
      • Senator MISSEN
      • Senator ROBERT RAY
      • Senator MACKLIN
      • Senator PETER BAUME
      • Senator Sir JOHN CARRICK
      • Senator SIBRAA
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
      • Senator Sir JOHN CARRICK
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
        • division
        • procedural text
      • Senator PETER BAUME
      • Senator ROBERT RAY
      • Senator PETER BAUME
      • Senator MACKLIN
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
      • Senator MACKLIN
      • Senator ROBERT RAY
      • Senator PETER BAUME
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
      • Senator MACKLIN
      • Senator PETER BAUME
      • Senator MACKLIN
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
      • Senator PETER BAUME
      • Senator MACKLIN
      • Senator PETER BAUME
      • Senator Sir JOHN CARRICK
      • Senator ROBERT RAY
      • Senator MISSEN
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
      • Senator Sir JOHN CARRICK
      • Senator MACKLIN
      • Senator HARRADINE
      • Senator Sir JOHN CARRICK
      • Senator GARETH EVANS
      • Senator Sir JOHN CARRICK
      • Senator PETER BAUME
      • Senator PETER BAUME
      • Senator ROBERT RAY
      • Senator Sir JOHN CARRICK
      • Senator SIBRAA
      • Senator HARRADINE
      • Senator PETER BAUME
  •   adjournment
    • censorship of parliamentarians-parliamentary delegation gifts-professional protestors against uranium mining-human rights commission of inquiry on the northern territory police-parliamentary committee sittings
      • Senator REYNOLDS
      • Senator HAINES
      • Senator MACKLIN
      • Senator KILGARIFF
      • Senator CROWLEY
      • Senator CHANEY
      • Senator HARRADINE
      • Senator GRIMES
  • papers
  •   answers to questions
    • pensions and benefits (Senator Messner)
    • australian national line (Senator Peter Rae)
    • telephone connections: non-rural domestic residences (Senator Maguire)
    • mr phillip lynch (Senator Bolkus)
    • indonesia (Senator Kilgariff)
    • computers (Senator Bolkus)
    • chemical weapons (Senator Bolkus)
    • stuart highway (Senator Kilgariff)
    • foreign awards (Senator Bolkus)
    • facilities at diego garcia (Senator Hearn)
    • grenada (Senator Hearn)

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