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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
  •   bills
    • criminal code amendment (keeping australia safe) bill 2026
      • second reading
        • Watt, Sen Murray
        • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
        • division
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Cadell, Sen Ross
  •   bills
    • commonwealth environmental water holder commission of inquiry bill 2026
      • second reading
        • Cadell, Sen Ross
        • Watt, Sen Murray
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
    • social security and other legislation amendment (technical changes no. 1) bill 2026
      • limitation of debate
        • Kovacic, Sen Maria (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • division
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • division
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • division
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
    • appropriation (fuel security response) bill (no. 1) 2025-2026, appropriation (fuel security response) bill (no. 2) 2025-2026
      • limitation of debate
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Thorpe, Sen Lidia
    • veterans' affairs legislation amendment (miscellaneous measures no. 2) bill 2026
      • limitation of debate
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
    • commonwealth parole board bill 2025, commonwealth parole board (consequential and transitional provisions) bill 2025
      • limitation of debate
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • division
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • division
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • division
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • division
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • division
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • division
    • treasury laws amendment (genetic testing protections in life insurance and other measures) bill 2025
      • limitation of debate
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
    • national health amendment (passive immunological products) bill 2026
      • limitation of debate
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • division
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • division
    • excise tariff amendment (draught beer) bill 2025, customs tariff amendment (draught beer) bill 2025
      • limitation of debate
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • division
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • division
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • division
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • division
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • division
        • Pocock, Sen David
        • division
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
    • corporations amendment (digital assets framework) bill 2025
      • limitation of debate
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
        • division
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • Pocock, Sen David
    • translating and interpreting services bill 2025
      • limitation of debate
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • division
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • division
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
        • division
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • division
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
    • migration amendment (combatting migrant exploitation) bill 2025
      • limitation of debate
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • division
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • McKim, Sen Nick
  •   business
    • days and hours of meeting
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
  •   bills
    • health legislation amendment (prescribing of pharmaceutical benefits) bill 2025
      • second reading
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Whiteaker, Sen Ellie
        • Steele-John, Sen Jordon
  •   statements by senators
    • economy
      • Liddle, Sen Kerrynne
    • marine environment: plastic pollution
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
    • early childhood education and care
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Matt
    • wages and salaries
      • O'Neill, Sen Deborah
    • economy
      • Tyrrell, Sen Tammy
    • western australia: tourism industry
      • Cox, Sen Dorinda
    • tasmania: salmon fishing industry
      • Dowling, Sen Richard
    • aboriginal deaths in custody
      • Thorpe, Sen Lidia
    • babet, senator ralph emmanuel didier
      • Babet, Sen Ralph
    • wages and salaries
      • Mulholland, Sen Corinne
    • australian parliament
      • Whitten, Sen Tyron
    • nurses, superannuation
      • Darmanin, Sen Lisa
    • health care
      • Colbeck, Sen Richard
    • simpson prize
      • Brown, Sen Carol
    • taxation
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
    • south australia: marine environment
      • Liddle, Sen Kerrynne
    • electric vehicles: road transport industry
      • Ananda-Rajah, Sen Michelle
    • easter
      • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
    • cost of living
      • Brockman, Sen Slade
    • western australia: charitable initiatives
      • Sterle, Sen Glenn
    • sovereign capability
      • Hodgins-May, Sen Steph
    • sovereign capability
      • Babet, Sen Ralph
    • workplace relations
      • Stewart, Sen Jana
    • aboriginal deaths in custody
      • Shoebridge, Sen David
    • rural, regional and remote australia: cost of living
      • Thorpe, Sen Lidia
    • cost of living
      • Collins, Sen Jessica
    • wages and salaries
      • Polley, Sen Helen
  •   questions without notice
    • fuel (Cash, Sen Michaelia)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • acknowledgement
      • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
  •   questions without notice
    • middle east (Stewart, Sen Jana)
    • fuel (Duniam, Sen Jonathon)
    • budget: fuel (Waters, Sen Larissa)
    • economy (O'Neill, Sen Deborah)
    • tasmania: no. 34 aboriginal health service (Tyrrell, Sen Tammy)
    • water (Cadell, Sen Ross)
    • pensions and benefits (Allman-Payne, Sen Penny)
    • rural and regional australia (Brown, Sen Carol)
    • fuel (Hume, Sen Jane)
    • wages and salaries (Smith, Sen Marielle)
  •   committees
    • parliamentary joint committee on defence, education and employment references committee, taxation of gas resources
      • membership
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
    • impact of the conflict in iran select committee
      • appointment
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • division
        • Brockman, Sen Slade (The DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • division
    • a certain maritime incident select committee, adopting artificial intelligence select committee, community affairs references committee, constitutional recognition relating to aboriginal and torres strait islander peoples joint select committee, education and employment legislation committee, environment and communications references committee, finance and public administration legislation committee, finance and public administration references committee, foreign affairs, defence and trade references committee, human rights joint committee, legal and constitutional affairs legislation committee, legal and constitutional affairs references committee, northern australia joint committee, regional and remote indigenous communities select committee
      • government response to report
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • fuel
      • Brockman, Sen Slade (The DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Colbeck, Sen Richard
      • Sterle, Sen Glenn
      • Kovacic, Sen Maria
      • Stewart, Sen Jana
      • Scarr, Sen Paul
    • budget: fuel
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
  •   petitions
    • gun control
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • pensions and benefits
      • Allman-Payne, Sen Penny
  •   committees
    • selection of bills committee
      • report
        • Darmanin, Sen Lisa
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • senate procedure committee
      • reporting date
        • Lines, Sen Sue (The PRESIDENT)
  •   documents
    • department of the treasury, home guarantee scheme
      • order for the production of documents
        • Cadell, Sen Ross
        • division
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Shoebridge, Sen David
  •   bills
    • online safety amendment (fix our feeds) bill 2026
      • first reading
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • second reading
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
  •   motions
    • defence procurement
      • Shoebridge, Sen David
  •   matters of public importance
    • cost of living
      • Polley, Sen Helen (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Sharma, Sen Dave
      • Whiteaker, Sen Ellie
      • Scarr, Sen Paul
      • Brown, Sen Carol
      • Blyth, Sen Leah
  •   matters of urgency
    • climate change
      • Polley, Sen Helen (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
      • Walker, Sen Charlotte
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • Dolega, Sen Josh
      • Hodgins-May, Sen Steph
  •   bills
    • high seas biodiversity bill 2026, national disability insurance scheme amendment (integrity and safeguarding) bill 2026
      • returned from the house of representatives
    • universities accord (australian tertiary education commission) bill 2025, defence and veterans' service commissioner bill 2025
      • returned from the house of representatives
  •   committees
    • electoral matters joint committee, parliamentary joint committee on defence
      • membership
  •   bills
    • treasury laws amendment (supporting choice in superannuation and other measures) bill 2025, commonwealth entities legislation amendment bill 2026, national commission for aboriginal and torres strait islander children and young people bill 2026, national commission for aboriginal and torres strait islander children and young people (transitional provisions) bill 2026, appropriation (parliamentary departments) bill (no. 2) 2025-2026, appropriation bill (no. 3) 2025-2026, appropriation bill (no. 4) 2025-2026, treasury laws amendment (doubling penalties for accc enforcement) bill 2026
      • assent
  •   business
    • days and hours of meeting
      • Ayres, Sen Tim

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