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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade references committee
      • meeting
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • social services and other legislation amendment (2014 budget measures no. 1) bill 2014, social services and other legislation amendment (2014 budget measures no. 2) bill 2014
      • second reading
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
        • Reynolds, Sen Linda
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
        • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Lines, Sen Susan
        • Day, Sen Bob
        • Polley, Sen Helen
        • Madigan, Sen John
        • Ketter, Sen Christopher
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Lundy, Sen Kate
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
  •   statements by senators
    • O'Neill, Sen Deb (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • queensland: health
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
    • budget
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
    • climate change
      • Rice, Sen Janet
    • defence procurement
      • Fawcett, Sen David
    • aged care
      • Polley, Sen Helen
    • tobacco smoking
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
    • australian capital territory government
      • Seselja, Sen Zed
    • prostate cancer
      • Lundy, Sen Kate
  •   questions without notice
    • indigenous affairs (Sterle, Sen Glenn)
    • employment (Bushby, Sen David)
    • department of the prime minister and cabinet (McLucas, Sen Jan)
    • taxation (Milne, Sen Christine)
    • budget (Edwards, Sen Sean)
    • minister for defence: staffing (Gallacher, Sen Alex)
    • defence procurement (McGrath, Sen James)
    • housing affordability (Day, Sen Bob)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • defence procurement (Conroy, Sen Stephen)
    • workplace relations (McKenzie, Sen Bridget)
    • higher education (Moore, Sen Claire)
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • asylum seekers
      • Cash, Sen Michaelia
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • indigenous affairs, department of the prime minister and cabinet
      • McLucas, Sen Jan
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Sterle, Sen Glenn
      • Edwards, Sen Sean
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • taxation
      • Milne, Sen Christine
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • withdrawal
      • Bushby, Sen David
    • presentation
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • postponement
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • consideration of legislation
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   motions
    • borderline personality disorder awareness week
      • Wright, Sen Penny
    • international development assistance: disability
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • local content broadcasting
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • division
  •   documents
    • asylum seekers
      • order for the production of documents
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • division
  •   motions
    • west papua
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
  •   matters of public importance
    • asylum seekers
      • Lines, Sen Susan (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • Back, Sen Chris
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
      • Milne, Sen Christine
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • Reynolds, Sen Linda
      • Seselja, Sen Zed
  •   documents
    • responses to senate resolutions
      • tabling
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • global fund to fight aids, tuberculosis and malaria
  •   committees
    • regulations and ordinances committee
      • delegated legislation monitor
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • scrutiny of bills committee
      • report
        • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade references committee
      • report
        • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
  •   regulations and determinations
    • corporations amendment (streamlining future of financial advice) regulation 2014
      • disallowance
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Ludwig, Sen Joe
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • division
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   committees
    • human rights committee
      • report
        • Fawcett, Sen David
  •   ministerial statements
    • ukraine air disaster
      • Cash, Sen Michaelia
  •   committees
    • certain aspects of queensland government administration related to commonwealth government affairs committee, education and employment legislation committee
      • membership
        • Peris, Sen Nova (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
  •   bills
    • australian transaction reports and analysis centre supervisory cost recovery levy amendment bill 2014, australian transaction reports and analysis centre supervisory cost recovery levy (collection) amendment bill 2014
      • first reading
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
      • second reading
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
    • fair entitlements guarantee amendment bill 2014
      • first reading
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
      • second reading
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
    • national security legislation amendment bill (no. 1) 2014
      • returned from the house of representatives
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Cash, Sen Michaelia
  •   bills
    • customs amendment (korea-australia free trade agreement implementation) bill 2014, customs tariff amendment (korea-australia free trade agreement implementation) bill 2014
      • second reading
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
      • third reading
        • Edwards, Sen Sean (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
  •   adjournment
    • Edwards, Sen Sean (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • national security
      • Fawcett, Sen David
    • aboriginal deaths in custody
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • national security
      • Edwards, Sen Sean
    • asylum seekers
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling
    • tabling
    • order for the production of documents

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