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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   statement by the president
    • former clerk of the senate's wig and gown
      • Hogg, Sen John
  •   committees
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade joint committee
      • meeting
        • Furner, Sen Mark
    • gambling reform committee
      • meeting
        • Crossin, Sen Trish
    • rural affairs and transport legislation committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   bills
    • minerals resource rent tax bill 2011, minerals resource rent tax (consequential amendments and transitional provisions) bill 2011, minerals resource rent tax (imposition—general) bill 2011, minerals resource rent tax (imposition—customs) bill 2011, minerals resource rent tax (imposition—excise) bill 2011, petroleum resource rent tax assessment amendment bill 2011, petroleum resource rent tax (imposition—general) bill 2011, petroleum resource rent tax (imposition—customs) bill 2011, petroleum resource rent tax (imposition—excise) bill 2011, tax laws amendment (stronger, fairer, simpler and other measures) bill 2011, superannuation guarantee (administration) amendment bill 2011
      • first reading
        • Arbib, Sen Mark
      • second reading
        • Arbib, Sen Mark
  •   documents
    • minerals resource rent tax
      • order for the production of documents
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Johnston, Sen David
        • Arbib, Sen Mark
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Sterle, Sen Glenn
        • division
  •   bills
    • tobacco advertising prohibition amendment bill 2010
      • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
  •   ministerial arrangements
    • Evans, Sen Christopher
    • Abetz, Sen Eric
  •   questions without notice
    • member for dobell (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • economy (Moore, Sen Claire)
    • gillard government (Cormann, Sen Mathias)
    • forestry (Brown, Sen Bob)
    • carbon pricing (Birmingham, Sen Simon)
    • automotive industry (Gallacher, Sen Alex)
    • carbon pricing (Williams, Sen John)
    • australian federal police (Milne, Sen Christine)
    • carbon pricing (Edwards, Sen Sean)
    • economy (Polley, Sen Helen)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • carbon pricing
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • Sherry, Sen Nick
      • Boswell, Sen Ronald
    • forestry, australian federal police
      • Milne, Sen Christine
  •   condolences
    • cowen, sir zelman, ak, gcmg, gcvo, qc
      • Hogg, Sen John
      • Evans, Sen Christopher
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Brown, Sen Bob
      • Parry, Sen Stephen
      • Scullion, Sen Nigel
  •   motions
    • queen elizabeth ii: diamond jubilee
      • Hogg, Sen John
      • Evans, Sen Christopher
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • Brown, Sen Bob
  •   petitions
    • global greens
  •   notices
    • presentation
      • Wright, Sen Penny
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Arbib, Sen Mark
  •   committees
    • public accounts and audit committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   committees
    • community affairs legislation committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • electoral matters committee
      • meeting
        • Brown, Sen Carol
  •   notices
    • postponement
      • Brown, Sen Bob
  •   committees
    • cyber-safety committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   motions
    • papua new guinea
      • Brown, Sen Bob
    • middle east
      • Brown, Sen Bob
      • division
    • sovereign wealth fund
      • Brown, Sen Bob
      • division
  •   matters of public importance
    • gillard government
      • Parry, Sen Stephen
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Thistlethwaite, Sen Matt
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
      • Sinodinos, Sen Arthur
      • Faulkner, Sen John
  •   ministerial statements
    • queensland and new south wales floods, foreign aid budget, people trafficking, murray-darling basin, afghanistan
      • Feeney, Sen David
  •   documents
    • tabling
      • Boyce, Sen Sue (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
  •   committees
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade references committee
      • reporting date
        • Bushby, Sen David
    • rural affairs and transport references committee
      • reporting date
        • Bushby, Sen David
  •   documents
    • tabling
      • Polley, Sen Helen
      • Boyce, Sen Sue (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   privilege
    • Boyce, Sen Sue (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
  •   documents
    • business of the senate
      • tabling
        • Boyce, Sen Sue (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • questions on notice summary
      • tabling
        • Boyce, Sen Sue (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • register of senate senior executive officers' interests
      • tabling
        • Boyce, Sen Sue (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Brown, Sen Bob
  •   auditor-general's reports
    • reports nos 14, 22 and 23 of 2011-12
      • Boyce, Sen Sue (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
  •   documents
    • tabling
      • Boyce, Sen Sue (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
  •   committees
    • government response to report
      • Feeney, Sen David
  •   documents
    • tabling
      • Feeney, Sen David
  •   committees
    • corporations and financial services committee
      • report
        • Bushby, Sen David
    • public accounts and audit committee
      • report
        • Polley, Sen Helen
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • membership
      • Boyce, Sen Sue (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Feeney, Sen David
  •   bills
    • excise tariff amendment (condensate) bill 2011, deterring people smuggling bill 2011, tax laws amendment (2011 measures no. 8) bill 2011, work health and safety bill 2011, personal property securities amendment (registration commencement) bill 2011, national health reform amendment (independent hospital pricing authority) bill 2011, excise legislation amendment (condensate) bill 2011, clean energy (household assistance amendments) bill 2011, coal mining industry (long service leave) legislation amendment bill 2011, climate change authority bill 2011, corporations (fees) amendment bill 2011, social security and other legislation amendment bill 2011, work health and safety (transitional and consequential provisions) bill 2011, tax laws amendment (2011 measures no. 7) bill 2011, tobacco plain packaging bill 2011, trade marks amendment (tobacco plain packaging) bill 2011, clean energy (income tax rates amendments) bill 2011, australian renewable energy agency bill 2011, australian renewable energy agency (consequential amendments and transitional provisions) bill 2011, clean energy (charges—customs) bill 2011, clean energy (charges—excise) bill 2011, clean energy (customs tariff amendment) bill 2011, clean energy (excise tariff legislation amendment) bill 2011, clean energy (fuel tax legislation amendment) bill 2011, clean energy (international unit surrender charge) bill 2011, clean energy (tax laws amendments) bill 2011, clean energy (unit issue charge—auctions) bill 2011, clean energy (unit issue charge—fixed charge) bill 2011, clean energy (unit shortfall charge—general) bill 2011, clean energy regulator bill 2011, ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas (import levy) amendment bill 2011, ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas (manufacture levy) amendment bill 2011, territories self-government legislation amendment (disallowance and amendment of laws) bill 2011, maritime legislation amendment bill 2011, navigation amendment bill 2011, veterans’ affairs legislation amendment (participants in british nuclear tests) bill 2011, parliamentary service amendment (parliamentary budget officer) bill 2011, national vocational education and training regulator amendment bill 2011, business names registration (application of consequential amendments) bill 2011, social security legislation amendment (family participation measures) bill 2011, crimes legislation amendment act (no. 2) 2011, national residue survey (excise) levy amendment (deer) bill 2011, protection of the sea (prevention of pollution from ships) amendment (oils in the antarctic area) bill 2011, broadcasting services amendment (review of future uses of broadcasting services bands spectrum) bill 2011, higher education support amendment act (no. 2) 2011, social security amendment (student income support reforms) bill 2011, aviation transport security amendment (air cargo) bill 2011, safety, rehabilitation and compensation and other legislation amendment bill 2011, safety, rehabilitation and compensation amendment (fair protection for firefighters) bill 2011, defence legislation amendment bill 2011, competition and consumer legislation amendment bill 2011, competition and consumer amendment bill (no. 1) 2011, human rights (parliamentary scrutiny) bill 2011, human rights (parliamentary scrutiny) (consequential provisions) bill 2011, indigenous affairs legislation amendment bill (no. 2) 2011, family law legislation amendment (family violence and other measures) bill 2011, auditor-general amendment bill 2011
      • assent
    • aviation transport security amendment (air cargo) bill 2011, family law legislation amendment (family violence and other measures) bill 2011
      • returned from the house of representatives
    • business names registration (application of consequential amendments) bill 2011, coal mining industry (long service leave) legislation amendment bill 2011, social security legislation amendment (family participation measures) bill 2011
      • returned from the house of representatives
    • offshore petroleum and greenhouse gas storage amendment (significant incident directions) bill 2011
      • first reading
        • Feeney, Sen David
      • second reading
        • Feeney, Sen David
  •   committees
    • cyber-safety committee
      • membership
  •   motions
    • dissent from ruling
      • Brown, Sen Bob
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • Milne, Sen Christine
      • Arbib, Sen Mark
      • Boswell, Sen Ronald
  •   documents
    • australian curriculum assessment and reporting authority
      • Mason, Sen Brett
      • Marshall, Sen Gavin
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   adjournment
    • Crossin, Sen Trish (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • sydney cricket ground
      • Faulkner, Sen John
    • b-24 liberator restoration project, employment
      • Ronaldson, Sen Michael
    • beetson, mr arthur, ao, sydney street choir
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
    • banking
      • Marshall, Sen Gavin
    • bingara living classroom
      • Williams, Sen John
    • wind farms
      • Madigan, Sen John
    • national space policy
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
    • defence equipment
      • Humphries, Sen Gary
    • safer internet day
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • murray-darling basin
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
    • centenary of the brisbane general strike
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • employment
      • Thistlethwaite, Sen Matt
    • employment
      • Boyce, Sen Sue
    • workplace relations
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • australian flag
      • Kroger, Sen Helen
    • defence procurement
      • Bishop, Sen Mark
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling
    • departmental and agency appointments
    • departmental and agency grants
      • order for the production of documents
  •   questions on notice
    • foreign affairs and trade: overseas travel (question no. 549) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • foreign affairs and trade (question no. 681) (Brown, Sen Bob)
    • human rights (question no. 685) (Ludlam, Sen Scott)
    • australian bureau of statistics (question no. 686 amended) (Ludlam, Sen Scott)
    • sudan (question no. 892) (Rhiannon, Sen Lee)
    • foreign affairs and trade (question no. 904) (Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah)
    • foreign affairs and trade (question no. 930) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • foreign affairs and trade (question no. 931) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • australian broadcasting corporation (question no. 1021) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • wizard projects pty ltd (question no. 1041) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • foreign affairs and trade: code of conduct investigations (question nos 1049 and 1063) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • school education, early childhood and youth (question no. 1096) (Brown, Sen Bob)
    • indigenous communities (question no. 1097) (Siewert, Sen Rachel)
    • ausaid: agent orange (question no.1102) (Rhiannon, Sen Lee)
    • attorney-general, home affairs and justice: staffing (question nos 1127, 1136 and 1137) (Humphries, Sen Gary)
    • foreign affairs and trade (question nos 1164 and 1178) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • finance and deregulation (question no. 1201) (Cormann, Sen Mathias)
    • broadband, communications and the digital economy (question no. 1208) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • climate change (question no. 1215) (Boswell, Sen Ronald)
    • climate change (question no. 1217) (Boswell, Sen Ronald)
    • national rental affordability scheme (question no. 1226) (Ludlam, Sen Scott)
    • tertiary education, skills, science and research, and school education, early childhood and youth (question nos 1234 and 1235) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • tertiary education, skills, science and research, and school education, early childhood and youth (question nos 1236 and 1237) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • foreign affairs and trade: advertising (question no. 1244) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • foreign affairs and trade (question no. 1248) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • foreign affairs and trade (question no. 1249) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • seal products (question no. 1261) (Brown, Sen Bob)
    • thailand (question no. 1264) (Brown, Sen Bob)
    • pontville detention centre (question no. 1268) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • sustainability, environment, water, population and communities (question no. 1271) (Boswell, Sen Ronald)
    • uranium mining (question no. 1273) (Ludlam, Sen Scott)
    • whaling (question no. 1277) (Brown, Sen Bob)
    • australian health survey (question no. 1278) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • carbon pricing (question no. 1283) (Milne, Sen Christine)
    • broadband, communications and the digital economy (question no. 1284) (Ludlam, Sen Scott)
    • pontville detention centre (question no. 1285) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • pontville detention centre (question no. 1287) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • pontville detention centre (question no. 1288) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • tasman national park (question no. 1289) (Brown, Sen Bob)
    • tasmanian regional forest agreement (question no. 1290) (Brown, Sen Bob)
    • tasmanian regional forest agreement (question no. 1291) (Brown, Sen Bob)
    • immigration and citizenship (question no. 1292) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • pontville detention centre (question no. 1293) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • pontville detention centre (question no. 1294) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • defence: special purpose aircraft (question no. 1296) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • prime minister: stationery (question no. 1302) (Abetz, Sen Eric)

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