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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   bills
    • defence legislation amendment (woomera prohibited area) bill 2013
      • second reading
        • Farrell, Sen Don
        • Johnston, Sen David
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Gallacher, Sen Alex
        • Fawcett, Sen David
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Stephens, Sen Ursula
        • Edwards, Sen Sean
        • Bishop, Sen Mark
  •   documents
    • border protection
      • order for the production of documents
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   committees
    • selection of bills committee
      • report
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   motions
    • national apology to australia's aboriginal and torres strait islander peoples
      • Scullion, Sen Nigel
  •   committees
    • economics references committee
      • meeting
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
    • joint standing committee on treaties
      • meeting
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
    • rural and regional affairs and transport references committee
      • reporting date
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   motions
    • greste, mr peter
      • Milne, Sen Christine
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   bills
    • great barrier reef legislation amendment bill 2014
      • first reading
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • second reading
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
  •   motions
    • statements by the queensland premier
      • Wright, Sen Penny
      • division
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   committees
    • procedure committee
      • reference
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • reference
        • Wright, Sen Penny
  •   notices
    • postponement
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
  •   committees
    • environment and communications references committee
      • reference
        • Milne, Sen Christine
  •   motions
    • bell bay pulp mill
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   documents
    • korea-australia free trade agreement
      • order for the production of documents
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
  •   motions
    • australian rail track corporation
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
    • cambodian elections
      • Milne, Sen Christine
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • australian broadcasting corporation
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   documents
    • operation sovereign borders
      • order for the production of documents
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
  •   motions
    • coal seam gas
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • division
    • sri lanka
      • Stephens, Sen Ursula
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   committees
    • additional information
      • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   bills
    • climate change authority (abolition) bill 2013
      • second reading
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
    • australian research council amendment bill 2013
      • second reading
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • third reading
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • veterans' affairs legislation amendment (miscellaneous measures) bill 2013
      • second reading
        • Farrell, Sen Don
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • third reading
        • Smith, Sen Dean (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
  •   bills
    • telecommunications legislation amendment (consumer protection) bill 2013
      • second reading
        • Stephens, Sen Ursula
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • third reading
        • Smith, Sen Dean (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • education services for overseas students amendment bill 2013
      • second reading
        • Lines, Sen Susan
        • Thorp, Sen Lin
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • third reading
        • Smith, Sen Dean (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • therapeutic goods amendment (2013 measures no. 1) bill 2013
      • second reading
        • McLucas, Sen Jan
        • Thorp, Sen Lin
      • third reading
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
  •   statements
    • baird, corporal cameron stewart, mg
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Milne, Sen Christine
  •   questions without notice
    • spc ardmona (Carr, Sen Kim)
    • disabilitycare australia (Smith, Sen Dean)
    • ministerial staff: code of conduct (Faulkner, Sen John)
    • western australia: shark cull (Siewert, Sen Rachel)
    • building and construction industry (McKenzie, Sen Bridget)
    • ministerial staff: code of conduct (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • carbon pricing (Bushby, Sen David)
    • imports (Xenophon, Sen Nick)
    • ministerial staff: code of conduct (McLucas, Sen Jan)
    • national security (Fawcett, Sen David)
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • carbon pricing
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • ministerial staff: code of conduct
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • McLucas, Sen Jan
      • Williams, Sen John
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • western australia: shark cull
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   documents
    • border protection
      • Carr, Sen Kim
  •   ministerial statements
    • female genital mutilation
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
  •   committees
    • select committee on cyber safety, joint standing committee on treaties
      • government response to report
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
  •   documents
    • work of committees
      • tabling
    • protection of nationally important species and wilderness places
      • tabling
    • australian law reform commission report 122
      • tabling
        • Brandis, Sen George
  •   budget
    • proposed expenditure
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
    • portfolio additional estimates statements
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • membership
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
  •   motions
    • australian jobs
      • Carr, Sen Kim
      • Ronaldson, Sen Michael
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
      • Mason, Sen Brett
      • Marshall, Sen Gavin
      • Back, Sen Chris
  •   parliamentary representation
    • queensland
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • senators sworn
  •   budget
    • portfolio additional estimates statements
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • ministerial staff: code of conduct
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Brandis, Sen George
  •   documents
    • director of national parks—report for 2012-13
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • environment and communications references committee
      • report
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
  •   committees
    • consideration
  •   auditor-general's reports
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • finance and public administration legislation committee
      • membership
        • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
        • Ronaldson, Sen Michael
  •   adjournment
    • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
    • trade
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
    • dyslexia
      • Faulkner, Sen John
    • kelly, hon. bert
      • Smith, Sen Dean
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • departmental and agency contracts
    • departmental and agency appointments and vacancies
    • departmental and agency grants

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