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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   governor-general's speech
    • address-in-reply
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   bills
    • human rights (parliamentary scrutiny) amendment (australian freedoms) bill 2019
      • second reading
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Paterson, Sen James
        • Dodson, Sen Patrick
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Abetz, Sen Eric
        • Stoker, Sen Amanda
        • Hughes, Sen Hollie
        • Chandler, Sen Claire
        • O'Sullivan, Sen Matthew
        • Smith, Sen Dean
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Payne, Sen Marise
  •   bills
    • national housing finance and investment corporation amendment bill 2019
      • second reading
        • Watt, Sen Murray
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Chandler, Sen Claire
        • Gallacher, Sen Alex
        • Bragg, Sen Andrew J
        • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
        • Brockman, Sen Slade
        • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
        • Scarr, Sen Paul
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • division
      • in committee
        • Watt, Sen Murray
        • TEMPORARY CHAIR, The
  •   questions without notice
    • middle east (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • drought (Davey, Sen Perin)
    • economy (Sheldon, Sen Anthony)
    • vocational education and training (Chandler, Sen Claire)
    • climate change (Di Natale, Sen Richard)
    • economy (Gallagher, Sen Katy)
    • dairy industry (Hanson, Sen Pauline)
    • australian defence force (Rennick, Sen Gerard)
    • globalism (Kitching, Sen Kimberley)
    • oil exploration (Brockman, Sen Slade)
    • anti-poverty week (Siewert, Sen Rachel)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • economy
      • Sterle, Sen Glenn
      • Scarr, Sen Paul
      • Brown, Sen Carol
      • Davey, Sen Perin
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
    • climate change
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • leave of absence
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • leave of absence
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • environment and communications legislation committee, environment and communications references committee
      • reporting date
        • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
  •   motions
    • anti-poverty week, international day for the eradication of poverty
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
    • bylong valley coalmine
      • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
      • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
      • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
      • division
  •   matters of public importance
    • girls takeover parliament
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Van, Sen David
      • Keneally, Sen Kristina
      • Hanson, Sen Pauline
      • Bragg, Sen Andrew J
      • Green, Sen Nita
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • Davey, Sen Perin
      • Smith, Sen Marielle
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Smith, Sen Dean
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • Chandler, Sen Claire
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • Steele-John, Sen Jordon
      • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
  •   petitions
    • hong kong
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
  •   auditor-general's reports
    • report no. 9 of 2019-20
      • consideration
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   documents
    • live animal exports
      • consideration
        • Brockman, Sen Slade
  •   documents
    • consideration
    • great barrier reef 2050 partnership program
      • order for the production of documents
        • Hume, Sen Jane
  •   committees
    • membership
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Hume, Sen Jane
  •   bills
    • treasury laws amendment (putting members' interests first) bill 2019
      • returned from the house of representatives
  •   committees
    • australia's family law system joint select committee
      • appointment
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
  •   bills
    • criminal code amendment (agricultural protection) bill 2019, national sports tribunal bill 2019, national sports tribunal (consequential amendments and transitional provisions) bill 2019, health insurance amendment (bonded medical programs reform) bill 2019, aged care amendment (movement of provisionally allocated places) bill 2019, combatting child sexual exploitation legislation amendment bill 2019, family assistance legislation amendment (extend family assistance to abstudy secondary school boarding students aged 16 and over) bill 2019, social services legislation amendment (overseas welfare recipients integrity program) bill 2019, veterans' affairs legislation amendment (partner service pension and other measures) bill 2019, customs amendment (immediate destruction of illicit tobacco) bill 2019, national health amendment (pharmaceutical benefits) bill 2019, treasury laws amendment (2018 superannuation measures no. 1) bill 2019, treasury laws amendment (putting members' interests first) bill 2019, water amendment (indigenous authority member) bill 2019, inspector-general of live animal exports bill 2019, national disability insurance scheme amendment (worker screening database) bill 2019
      • assent
    • national housing finance and investment corporation amendment bill 2019
      • in committee
        • TEMPORARY CHAIR, The
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Watt, Sen Murray
        • Watt, Sen Murray
      • third reading
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • division
    • anl legislation repeal bill 2019
      • second reading
        • Brown, Sen Carol
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Brockman, Sen Slade
        • Sterle, Sen Glenn
        • Polley, Sen Helen
        • Davey, Sen Perin
        • Ciccone, Sen Raff
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
      • third reading
        • Kitching, Sen Kimberley (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
  •   committees
    • community affairs legislation committee
      • meeting
        • Smith, Sen Dean
  •   bills
    • crimes legislation amendment (police powers at airports) bill 2019
      • second reading
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Antic, Sen Alexander
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • division
      • in committee
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Keneally, Sen Kristina
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • division
      • third reading
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
    • treasury laws amendment (ending grandfathered conflicted remuneration) bill 2019
      • second reading
        • Brown, Sen Carol
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Bragg, Sen Andrew J
        • Rennick, Sen Gerard
        • Paterson, Sen James
        • Van, Sen David
        • Hume, Sen Jane
      • third reading
        • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Hume, Sen Jane
    • higher education support (charges) bill 2019, higher education support amendment (cost recovery) bill 2019
      • second reading
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • O'Sullivan, Sen Matthew
  •   adjournment
    • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • workplace relations
      • Green, Sen Nita
    • newstart allowance
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel

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