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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
  •   bills
    • criminal code amendment (high risk terrorist offenders) bill 2016
      • second reading
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • division
      • in committee
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Brandis, Sen George
      • third reading
        • Brandis, Sen George
    • register of foreign ownership of agricultural land amendment (water) bill 2016
      • second reading
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Rice, Sen Janet
  •   petitions
    • bass strait: ferry services
    • tax avoidance
    • tax avoidance
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   committees
    • selection of bills committee
      • report
        • Bushby, Sen David
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • environment and communications references committee, rural and regional affairs and transport references committee
      • reporting date
  •   parliamentary zone
    • approval of works
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Hanson, Sen Pauline
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   committees
    • economics references committee
      • reference
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • McGrath, Sen James
    • community affairs references committee
      • reference
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   motions
    • australian defence force
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
    • financial services
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
      • Williams, Sen John
      • Culleton, Sen Rodney
    • world aids day
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • high court of australia
      • Kakoschke-Moore, Sen Skye
    • murray-darling basin plan
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
    • regional forest agreements
      • Rice, Sen Janet
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   committees
    • joint select committee on government procurement
      • appointment
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
    • finance and public administration references committee
      • reference
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • division
  •   notices
    • postponement
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
    • withdrawal
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
  •   motions
    • judiciary
      • Culleton, Sen Rodney
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Culleton, Sen Rodney
      • division
    • whaling
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   bills
    • register of foreign ownership of agricultural land amendment (water) bill 2016
      • second reading
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • in committee
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • third reading
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
    • criminal code amendment (war crimes) bill 2016
      • second reading
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • division
      • in committee
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • third reading
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • division
  •   questions without notice
    • economy (Bilyk, Sen Catryna)
    • national security (Fawcett, Sen David)
    • turnbull government (Moore, Sen Claire)
    • dental services (Di Natale, Sen Richard)
    • attorney-general (Kitching, Sen Kimberley)
    • legal aid (Roberts, Sen Malcolm)
    • mobile black spot program (Williams, Sen John)
    • rural and regional health services (Kakoschke-Moore, Sen Skye)
    • turnbull government (Dastyari, Sen Sam)
    • broadband (Smith, Sen Dean)
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • health care
      • Nash, Sen Fiona
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • attorney-general
      • Watt, Sen Murray
      • Reynolds, Sen Linda
      • Polley, Sen Helen
      • Fawcett, Sen David
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
  •   committees
    • senate standing committee of privileges
      • report
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • appropriations and staffing committee
      • report
        • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • Fawcett, Sen David
  •   committees
    • senate publications committee
      • report
        • Fawcett, Sen David
    • parliamentary joint committee on human rights
      • report
        • Fawcett, Sen David
    • finance and public administration references committee
      • additional information
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • economics references committee
      • report
        • Carr, Sen Kim
  •   documents
    • australian pesticides and veterinary medicine authority, cashless debit card trial progress report, minamata convention on mercury, national red imported fire ant eradication program, united nations framework convention on climate change
      • order for the production of documents
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
  •   bills
    • broadcasting legislation amendment (media reform) bill 2016
      • first reading
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
      • second reading
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
    • building and construction industry (improving productivity) bill 2013, building and construction industry (consequential and transitional provisions) bill 2013, vet student loans (consequential amendments and transitional provisions) bill 2016
      • returned from the house of representatives
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   motions
    • disability support pension
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • division
    • coal industry
      • Williams, Sen John
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
    • budget
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • division
    • hobart light rail
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • coal industry
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • division
    • culleton, senator rodney
      • Culleton, Sen Rodney
      • division
    • freedom of speech, asylum seekers
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • Williams, Sen John
    • west papua
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
    • children in care
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • Dastyari, Sen Sam
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
      • Pratt, Sen Louise
      • Lines, Sen Susan
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Dastyari, Sen Sam
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
      • division
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • division
  •   bills
    • income tax rates amendment (working holiday maker reform) bill 2016 (no. 2)
      • consideration of house of representatives message
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • division
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Polley, Sen Helen
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Hinch, Sen Derryn
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • division
      • third reading
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
    • superannuation (departing australia superannuation payments tax) amendment bill (no. 2) 2016
      • first reading
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • second reading
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
      • third reading
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
    • vet student loans bill 2016
      • consideration of house of representatives message
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Griff, Sen Stirling
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • division
        • CHAIR, The
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • division
        • CHAIR, The
      • third reading
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
    • civil nuclear transfers to india bill 2016
      • second reading
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • division
      • third reading
        • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
        • Brandis, Sen George
    • veterans' affairs legislation amendment (budget and other measures) bill 2016
      • Farrell, Sen Don
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • Kakoschke-Moore, Sen Skye
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • in committee
        • Kakoschke-Moore, Sen Skye
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Farrell, Sen Don
        • division
      • third reading
        • Brandis, Sen George
    • register of foreign ownership of agricultural land amendment (water) bill 2016
      • returned from the house of representatives
  •   committees
    • joint select committee government procurement
      • appointment
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   committees
    • membership
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   documents
    • order for the production of documents
  •   statement by the president
    • blunden, ms sue
      • PRESIDENT, The
    • clerk of the senate
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Scullion, Sen Nigel
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • Hanson, Sen Pauline
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   adjournment
    • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   statements
    • valedictories
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Scullion, Sen Nigel
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
      • Hanson, Sen Pauline
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
  •   adjournment
    • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   documents
    • tabling

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