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  • start of business
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • Farrell, Sen Don
  •   bills
    • telecommunications legislation amendment (fibre deployment) bill 2011
      • in committee
        • Parry, Sen Stephen
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Conroy, Sen Stephen
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Conroy, Sen Stephen
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Conroy, Sen Stephen
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Conroy, Sen Stephen
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Conroy, Sen Stephen
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Conroy, Sen Stephen
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Conroy, Sen Stephen
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • procedural text
  •   questions without notice
    • gillard government (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • parliamentary budget office (Stephens, Sen Ursula)
    • carbon pricing (Brandis, Sen George)
    • tarkine wilderness (Milne, Sen Christine)
    • carbon pricing (Birmingham, Sen Simon)
    • mining (Urquhart, Sen Anne)
    • asylum seekers (Eggleston, Sen Alan)
    • western australian offshore constitutional settlement (Siewert, Sen Rachel)
    • asylum seekers (Humphries, Sen Gary)
    • questions without notice: take note of answers, carbon pricing
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • Stephens, Sen Ursula
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • Joyce, Sen Barnaby
    • western australian offshore constitutional settlement
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   petitions
    • halal islamic food
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • presentation
    • postponement
  •   business
    • withdrawal
      • Williams, Sen John
  •   bills
    • constitutional corporations (farm gate to plate) bill 2011
      • first reading
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
    • second reading
  •   committees
    • public accounts and audit committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • electoral matters committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • legal and constitutional affairs legislation committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • national capital and external territories committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • treaties committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • migration committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • national broadband network committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • community affairs legislation committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   motions
    • stosur, ms samantha
      • Williams, Sen John
  •   committees
    • community affairs references committee
      • meeting
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   motions
    • nystrom, mr stefan
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • division
    • national service 60th anniversary
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • north west slope trawl fishery
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Colbeck, Sen Richard
    • coal seam gas
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • division
    • israel
      • Boswell, Sen Ronald
      • Brown, Sen Bob
      • Boswell, Sen Ronald
      • division
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
    • suspension of standing orders
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • Brown, Sen Bob
      • Boswell, Sen Ronald
      • Ludwig, Sen Joe
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Milne, Sen Christine
      • division
  •   personal explanations
    • Boswell, Sen Ronald
  •   matters of public importance
    • Hogg, Sen John
    • Cormann, Sen Mathias
    • Thistlethwaite, Sen Matt
    • Birmingham, Sen Simon
    • Stephens, Sen Ursula
    • Williams, Sen John
    • Singh, Sen Lisa
  •   ministerial statements
    • united states of america: terrorist attacks, shipping
      • Feeney, Sen David
    • shipping
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
  •   committees
    • public accounts and audit committee
      • government response to report
        • Conroy, Sen Stephen
    • telecommunications legislation amendment (fibre deployment) bill 2011
      • Back, Sen Chris
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • Conroy, Sen Stephen
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • Conroy, Sen Stephen
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • Conroy, Sen Stephen
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • Conroy, Sen Stephen
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • Conroy, Sen Stephen
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • division
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • Conroy, Sen Stephen
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
    • third reading
      • Conroy, Sen Stephen
  •   documents
    • Bishop, Sen Mark
    • consideration
    • forestry
      • Colbeck, Sen Richard
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Boswell, Sen Ronald
    • australian livestock export corporation
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
  •   statement by the president
    • standing order 191
      • Hogg, Sen John
  •   adjournment
    • Hogg, Sen John
    • australian women's land army
      • Faulkner, Sen John
    • australian manufacturing
      • Boswell, Sen Ronald
    • human trafficking
      • Polley, Sen Helen
    • nippon paper group, bushfires
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
    • desalination in western australia
      • Farrell, Sen Don
    • regional development australia fund
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
    • national child protection week
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • learn earn legend
      • Pratt, Sen Louise
    • illawarra local government elections
      • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
    • uranium mining
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
    • asia-pacific region
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • south australia: catholic church
      • Hogg, Sen John
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   questions on notice
    • housing supply and affordability reform (question no. 593) (Ludlam, Sen Scott)
    • mining projects (question no. 723) (Ludlam, Sen Scott)
    • macquarie island: baiting program (question no. 832) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • job services australia: providers (question no. 899) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • member for dobell (question no. 905) (Ronaldson, Sen Michael)
    • water policy (question no. 919) (Joyce, Sen Barnaby)
    • australian competition and consumer commission (question no. 983) (Cormann, Sen Mathias)
    • inspector general of taxation (question no. 995) (Cormann, Sen Mathias)
    • inspector general of taxation (question no. 1001) (Cormann, Sen Mathias)
    • prime minister and cabinet: media staffing (question no. 1028) (Abetz, Sen Eric)

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