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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   bills
    • steel transformation plan bill 2011
      • second reading
        • Abetz, Sen Eric
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Williams, Sen John
        • Singh, Sen Lisa
        • Boyce, Sen Sue
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
        • division
        • division
      • third reading
        • Hogg, Sen John
        • division
    • australian renewable energy agency bill 2011, australian renewable energy agency (consequential amendments and transitional provisions) bill 2011
      • second reading
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Thistlethwaite, Sen Matt
        • Boswell, Sen Ronald
  •   matters of public interest
    • Cameron, Sen Doug
    • asbestos
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
    • mental health
      • Eggleston, Sen Alan
    • new south wales: infrastructure
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
    • israel
      • Furner, Sen Mark
    • australia network
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
  •   questions without notice
    • carbon pricing (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • mining (Sterle, Sen Glenn)
    • carbon pricing (Nash, Sen Fiona)
    • carbon pricing (Brown, Sen Bob)
    • mining (Cormann, Sen Mathias)
    • steel industry (Stephens, Sen Ursula)
    • australia network (Birmingham, Sen Simon)
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • schools: music
      • Evans, Sen Christopher
    • forestry
      • Ludwig, Sen Joe
    • carbon pricing
      • Wong, Sen Penny
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • australia network
      • Humphries, Sen Gary
      • Feeney, Sen David
      • Eggleston, Sen Alan
      • Marshall, Sen Gavin
      • Fawcett, Sen David
  •   committees
    • rural affairs and transport references committee
      • reporting date
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   motions
    • youth in communities
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • australia network
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
  •   committees
    • community affairs references committee
      • meeting
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   motions
    • coal seam gas
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • division
    • coral sea
      • Brown, Sen Bob
      • Ludwig, Sen Joe
      • Brown, Sen Bob
      • Joyce, Sen Barnaby
      • Colbeck, Sen Richard
      • division
    • vocational education and training
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • division
    • recycling
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • division
    • parliamentary behaviour
      • Brown, Sen Bob
    • suspension of standing orders
      • Brown, Sen Bob
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • Milne, Sen Christine
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • Faulkner, Sen John
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • great barrier reef
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • division
    • standing order 193(3)
      • Brown, Sen Bob
  •   committees
    • environment and communications references committee
      • additional information
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   bills
    • native title amendment (reform) bill 2011
      • report of legislation committee
        • Brown, Sen Carol
    • australian renewable energy agency bill 2011, australian renewable energy agency (consequential amendments and transitional provisions) bill 2011
      • second reading
        • Boyce, Sen Sue
        • Boswell, Sen Ronald
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • third reading
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • mining
      • Evans, Sen Christopher
  •   bills
    • tobacco plain packaging bill 2011, trade marks amendment (tobacco plain packaging) bill 2011
      • second reading
        • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Faulkner, Sen John
        • Humphries, Sen Gary
        • Brown, Sen Carol
        • Boyce, Sen Sue
        • Polley, Sen Helen
        • Crossin, Sen Trish
  •   adjournment
    • Marshall, Sen Gavin
    • multicultural policy
      • Lundy, Sen Kate
    • media
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • coal seam gas
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
    • alzheimer's disease
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
  •   documents
    • order for the production of documents
    • tabling
    • tabling
  •   questions on notice
    • immigration and citizenship (question no. 1166) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • agriculture, fisheries and forestry (question no. 1175 amended) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • tertiary education, skills, jobs and workplace relations (question no. 1204) (Scullion, Sen Nigel)

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