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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • community affairs references committee, environment and communications references committee
      • meeting
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   statement by the president
    • clerk of the senate
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Scullion, Sen Nigel
  •   bills
    • building and construction industry (improving productivity) bill 2013, building and construction industry (consequential and transitional provisions) bill 2013
      • in committee
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Paterson, Sen James
  •   questions without notice
    • attorney-general (Gallagher, Sen Katy)
    • high court of australia (Macdonald, Sen Ian)
    • attorney-general (Sterle, Sen Glenn)
    • revenue (Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter)
    • trade (Williams, Sen John)
    • minister for social services (McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri)
    • coal industry (O'Sullivan, Sen Barry)
    • health care (Hinch, Sen Derryn)
    • attorney-general (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • child care (Paterson, Sen James)
    • attorney-general (Dodson, Sen Patrick)
    • disability (Hume, Sen Jane)
    • attorney-general (Watt, Sen Murray)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • answers to questions
      • Sterle, Sen Glenn
      • Hume, Sen Jane
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • Paterson, Sen James
      • Dodson, Sen Patrick
    • revenue
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   notices
    • presentation
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • presentation
  •   committees
    • community affairs references committee
      • reference
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • McGrath, Sen James
    • scrutiny of bills committee
      • documents
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   motions
    • disability awareness week
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • international day of people with disability
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
  •   committees
    • public accounts and audit committee
      • meeting
        • Bushby, Sen David
    • resilience of electricity infrastructure in a warming world
      • reporting date
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
    • strengthening multiculturalism committee
      • appointment
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
  •   documents
    • red imported fire ants
      • order for the production of documents
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • McGrath, Sen James
    • minamata convention on mercury
      • order for the production of documents
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
        • McGrath, Sen James
  •   motions
    • new south wales independent commission against corruption
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   committees
    • funding for research into cancers with low survival rates committee
      • appointment
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • economics references committee
      • reference
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • McGrath, Sen James
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • division
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • reference
        • Watt, Sen Murray
        • McGrath, Sen James
        • division
  •   motions
    • australian broadcasting corporation
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
      • division
  •   documents
    • australian pesticides and veterinary medicine authority
      • order for the production of documents
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • division
  •   motions
    • australian of the year
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
      • division
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   matters of public importance
    • revenue
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Sterle, Sen Glenn
      • Back, Sen Chris
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
      • McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • community affairs references committee
      • report
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Brown, Sen Carol
        • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
    • economics references committee
      • government response to report
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
    • environment and communications references committee
      • report
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
  •   documents
    • community affairs references committee
      • order for the production of documents
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
  •   bills
    • criminal code amendment (high risk terrorist offenders) bill 2016
      • explanatory memorandum
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
    • competition and consumer amendment (country of origin) bill 2016
      • first reading
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
      • second reading
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
    • building and construction industry (improving productivity) bill 2013, building and construction industry (consequential and transitional provisions) bill 2013
      • in committee
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Hinch, Sen Derryn
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • division
        • Carr, Sen Kim
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Carr, Sen Kim
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Hinch, Sen Derryn
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
        • Hinch, Sen Derryn
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Carr, Sen Kim
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
        • division
        • Hinch, Sen Derryn
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Hinch, Sen Derryn
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Hinch, Sen Derryn
        • Hinch, Sen Derryn
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Hinch, Sen Derryn
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
        • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • division
        • Hinch, Sen Derryn
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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