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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • social services legislation amendment (cashless debit card trial expansion) bill 2018
      • in committee
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
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        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
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        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • division
        • CHAIR, The
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        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
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        • Lines, Sen Susan
        • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
        • Lines, Sen Susan
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Lines, Sen Susan
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Lines, Sen Susan
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Lines, Sen Susan
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
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        • Waters, Sen Larissa
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        • Waters, Sen Larissa
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        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
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        • Waters, Sen Larissa
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        • Waters, Sen Larissa
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        • Waters, Sen Larissa
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        • Waters, Sen Larissa
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
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        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
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        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
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        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Storer, Sen Timothy
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
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        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
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        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
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        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
      • third reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • liberal party leadership (Chisholm, Sen Anthony)
    • national security (Molan, Sen Jim)
    • liberal party leadership (Smith, Sen David)
    • minister for home affairs (McKim, Sen Nicholas)
    • trans-pacific partnership agreement (Griff, Sen Stirling)
    • morrison government (Gallacher, Sen Alex)
    • trans-pacific partnership agreement (Bushby, Sen David)
    • law enforcement (Hinch, Sen Derryn)
    • minister for home affairs (Watt, Sen Murray)
    • indigenous affairs (Brockman, Sen Slade)
    • members of parliament: conduct (McAllister, Sen Jenny)
    • drought (Williams, Sen John)
    • climate change (McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • liberal party leadership
      • Watt, Sen Murray
      • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
      • Keneally, Sen Kristina
      • Smith, Sen Dean
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
    • minister for home affairs
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • reporting date
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   motions
    • dementia awareness month
      • Polley, Sen Helen
    • national stroke week
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   committees
    • select committee on the future of work and workers
      • reporting date
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   motions
    • national wattle day
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • national independent commission against corruption
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • division
  •   bills
    • commonwealth places and services (facial recognition) bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • second reading
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
  •   documents
    • national radioactive waste management facility
      • order for the production of documents
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
        • division
  •   motions
    • single-use plastic
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
    • gender and sexual orientation
      • Rice, Sen Janet
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • live animal exports
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • Storer, Sen Timothy
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
      • division
  •   documents
    • commonwealth environmental water holder
      • order for the production of documents
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   motions
    • whaling
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • division
    • myanmar
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
  •   matters of public importance
    • gender and sexual orientation
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Rice, Sen Janet
      • Fawcett, Sen David
      • Pratt, Sen Louise
      • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
      • Smith, Sen Dean
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
  •   committees
    • legislation committees
      • report
        • Williams, Sen John
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • minister for home affairs
      • Scullion, Sen Nigel
  •   committees
    • membership
      • Marshall, Sen Gavin (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Scullion, Sen Nigel
  •   bills
    • health insurance (approved pathology specimen collection centres) tax amendment bill 2018, private health insurance legislation amendment bill 2018
      • returned from the house of representatives
  •   committees
    • membership
  •   bills
    • imported food control amendment bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Colbeck, Sen Richard
      • explanatory memorandum
        • Colbeck, Sen Richard
      • in committee
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Brown, Sen Carol
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Colbeck, Sen Richard
      • third reading
        • Colbeck, Sen Richard
    • treasury laws amendment (accelerated depreciation for small business entities) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Paterson, Sen James
        • Abetz, Sen Eric
        • Smith, Sen Dean
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
      • in committee
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
  •   adjournment
    • Bernardi, Sen Cory (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • dementia awareness month
      • Polley, Sen Helen
    • disability services
      • Steele-John, Sen Jordon
    • aged care
      • Keneally, Sen Kristina
    • bureau of meteorology, slavery
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
    • climate change
      • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
    • alcoa
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • liberal democrats
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
    • banking and financial services
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
    • endangered species
      • Rice, Sen Janet
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling
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