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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   statement by the president
    • clerk of the senate
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   parliamentary representation
    • qualifications of senators
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   party office holders
    • australian labor party
      • Wong, Sen Penny
  •   statements
    • liberal party of australia
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
  •   motions
    • australia-united states relationship
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
    • suspension of standing orders
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
      • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • Dastyari, Sen Sam
      • division
  •   bills
    • offshore petroleum and greenhouse gas storage amendment (petroleum pools and other measures) bill 2016
      • second reading
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Back, Sen Chris
  •   questions without notice
    • employment (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • economy (Hume, Sen Jane)
    • automotive industry (Carr, Sen Kim)
    • united states of america (Ludlam, Sen Scott)
    • defence properties (Back, Sen Chris)
    • defence properties (Watt, Sen Murray)
    • energy (O'Sullivan, Sen Barry)
    • renewable energy target (Lambie, Sen Jacqui)
    • centrelink (Cameron, Sen Doug)
    • energy (Paterson, Sen James)
    • centrelink (McAllister, Sen Jenny)
    • internet content (Duniam, Sen Jonathon)
      • Brandis, Sen George
  •   ministerial arrangements
    • Brandis, Sen George
  •   answers to questions on notice
    • question no. 196
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • Back, Sen Chris
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • employment, automotive industry
      • Carr, Sen Kim
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher
      • Back, Sen Chris
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
    • renewable energy target
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
  •   condolences
    • trood, professor russell brunell
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Scullion, Sen Nigel
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • Hanson, Sen Pauline
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Sterle, Sen Glenn
      • PRESIDENT, The
    • gorman, mr russell neville joseph
      • PRESIDENT, The
    • bradshaw, mr keith oscar, obe
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
    • leave of absence
      • Williams, Sen John
    • leave of absence
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • reporting date
  •   bills
    • australian human rights commission amendment (preliminary assessment process) bill 2017
      • first reading
        • Burston, Sen Brian
      • second reading
        • Burston, Sen Brian
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   matters of public importance
    • centrelink
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Brown, Sen Carol
      • Hume, Sen Jane
      • Burston, Sen Brian
      • Paterson, Sen James
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Polley, Sen Helen
  •   documents
    • indigenous advancement strategy
      • consideration
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • forestry
      • consideration
        • Rice, Sen Janet
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • legal and constitutional affairs legislation committee, education and employment legislation committee, foreign affairs, defence and trade legislation committee
      • report
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • community affairs references committee, parliamentary joint committee on corporations and financial services, rural and regional affairs and transport legislation committee
      • government response to report
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Sterle, Sen Glenn
    • treaties committee
      • report
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade references committee
      • report
        • Gallacher, Sen Alex
        • Back, Sen Chris
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
  •   committees
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • membership
      • Marshall, Sen Gavin (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Seselja, Sen Zed
  •   adjournment
    • Marshall, Sen Gavin (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • her majesty queen elizabeth ii—sapphire jubilee
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • child care
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • forestry
      • Rice, Sen Janet
    • australian broadcasting corporation
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
    • royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse
      • Pratt, Sen Louise
    • defence properties
      • Watt, Sen Murray
    • bernardi, senator cory
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
    • health care
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
    • asylum seekers
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
    • renewable energy target
      • Back, Sen Chris
    • aquaculture industry
      • Polley, Sen Helen
    • mental health
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • south-west queensland
      • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
    • vanuatu
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • indigenous advancement strategy
      • Dodson, Sen Patrick
    • ourimbah hospital auxiliary, education
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
    • middle east
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • middle east, environmental conservation
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
    • united nations
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
    • australia-united states relationship
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • report
    • government response to report

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