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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee, trade and investment growth committee
      • meeting
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   condolences
    • hughes, mr phillip joel
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • Faulkner, Sen John
      • Milne, Sen Christine
      • Scullion, Sen Nigel
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
      • Conroy, Sen Stephen
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Madigan, Sen John
      • division
  •   bills
    • migration and maritime powers legislation amendment (resolving the asylum legacy caseload) bill 2014
      • second reading
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
        • Reynolds, Sen Linda
        • Back, Sen Chris
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Madigan, Sen John
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
  •   statements by senators
    • corporate tax evasion
      • Heffernan, Sen Bill
    • broadband
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • nuclear energy
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
    • economy
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
    • middle east
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • aboriginal deaths in custody
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • australian capital territory
      • Seselja, Sen Zed
    • taxation, micah challenge
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
  •   questions without notice
    • defence procurement (Gallacher, Sen Alex)
    • budget (McGrath, Sen James)
    • australian defence force (Lundy, Sen Kate)
    • education (Rhiannon, Sen Lee)
    • asylum seekers (Smith, Sen Dean)
    • renewable energy (Lazarus, Sen Glenn)
    • international day of people with disability, disability services (O'Sullivan, Sen Barry)
    • defence procurement (Day, Sen Bob)
    • minister for defence (Conroy, Sen Stephen)
    • therapeutic goods administration (Seselja, Sen Zed)
    • defence procurement (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • economy (Bushby, Sen David)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • defence
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Edwards, Sen Sean
      • Dastyari, Sen Sam
      • Williams, Sen John
      • Lundy, Sen Kate
  •   personal explanations
    • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
  •   notices
    • presentation
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • legal and constitutional affairs legislation committee, legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • reporting date
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • Marshall, Sen Gavin
  •   committees
    • community affairs references committee
      • reference
        • Reynolds, Sen Linda
      • reference
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
  •   bills
    • defence legislation amendment (military justice enhancements—inspector-general adf) bill 2014
      • first reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • independent national security legislation monitor (improved oversight and resourcing) bill 2014
      • first reading
        • Wright, Sen Penny
      • second reading
        • Wright, Sen Penny
    • tribunals amalgamation bill 2014
      • first reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   committees
    • law enforcement committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • australian commission for law enforcement integrity committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   motions
    • ywca australia
      • Milne, Sen Christine
      • Cash, Sen Michaelia
    • coal industry
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
    • trade with china
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
    • trade with india
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
    • coal industry
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
    • mining
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   documents
    • productivity commission report
      • order for the production of documents
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
    • students with disability report, ernst and young report
      • order for the production of documents
        • Wright, Sen Penny
  •   motions
    • live animal exports
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
    • climate change
      • Milne, Sen Christine
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • united nations environment programme
      • Milne, Sen Christine
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • division
    • environment
      • Milne, Sen Christine
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • division
  •   documents
    • pricewaterhousecoopers data retention legislation report
      • order for the production of documents
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • division
  •   matters of public importance
    • abbott government
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Lines, Sen Susan
      • Mason, Sen Brett
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
      • Polley, Sen Helen
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Smith, Sen Dean
      • Back, Sen Chris
  •   documents
    • productivity commission
      • Wright, Sen Penny
    • department of the environment
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • scrutiny of bills committee
      • report
        • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • regulations and ordinances committee
      • delegated legislation monitor
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • community affairs references committee
      • report
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
        • Peris, Sen Nova
        • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
        • Moore, Sen Claire
  •   documents
    • homelessness, ipswich motorway, income management proposals
      • order for the production of documents
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
  •   ministerial statements
    • aviation safety regulation review
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
    • afghanistan, iraq
      • Johnston, Sen David
      • Conroy, Sen Stephen
  •   documents
    • indigenous communities
      • order for the production of documents
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   committees
    • abbott government's budget cuts select committee
      • membership
        • Smith, Sen Dean (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   bills
    • act government loan bill 2014, acts and instruments (framework reform) bill 2014, federal courts legislation amendment bill 2014, treasury legislation amendment (repeal day) bill 2014
      • consideration of house of representatives message
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • counter-terrorism legislation amendment bill (no. 1) 2014
      • returned from the house of representatives
  •   committees
    • rural and regional affairs and transport legislation committee
      • report
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • division
  •   bills
    • national water commission (abolition) bill 2014
      • second reading
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   adjournment
    • Sterle, Sen Glenn (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • victorian government
      • Marshall, Sen Gavin
    • labor party
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • international day of people with disability
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
    • abbott government
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
    • tasmanian liberal members, tasmanian coastal shipping
      • Bushby, Sen David
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling
    • order for the production of documents

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