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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   statements
    • register of senators' interests
    • register of senators' interests
      • Dastyari, Sen Sam
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
  •   business
    • days and hours of meeting
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   parliamentary representation
    • rotation of senators
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • Dastyari, Sen Sam
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
      • division
  •   governor-general's speech
    • address-in-reply
      • Hume, Sen Jane
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • Polley, Sen Helen
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • Back, Sen Chris
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • Williams, Sen John
  •   statements by senators
    • O'Neill, Sen Deb (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • banking and financial services, insurance industry
      • Williams, Sen John
    • aids, tb and malaria, aged care
      • Polley, Sen Helen
    • nuclear weapons
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
    • goods and services tax
      • Back, Sen Chris
    • the global fund
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • iron ore industry
      • Reynolds, Sen Linda
    • south australia: renewable energy
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
    • register of senators' interests
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
  •   ministerial arrangements
    • Brandis, Sen George
  •   questions without notice
    • racial discrimination act 1975 (Dodson, Sen Patrick)
    • economy (Smith, Sen Dean)
    • turnbull government (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • donations to political parties (Di Natale, Sen Richard)
    • economy (Bushby, Sen David)
    • defence procurement (Xenophon, Sen Nick)
    • workplace relations (Paterson, Sen James)
    • superannuation (Leyonhjelm, Sen David)
    • superannuation (Gallagher, Sen Katy)
    • medicare (McKenzie, Sen Bridget)
    • banking and financial services (Ketter, Sen Christopher)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • broadband (Duniam, Sen Jonathon)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • broadband (Duniam, Sen Jonathon)
  •   party office holders
    • national party of australia
      • Scullion, Sen Nigel
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • racial discrimination act 1975
      • Dodson, Sen Patrick
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Pratt, Sen Louise
      • Back, Sen Chris
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
    • donations to political parties
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   privilege
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • Conroy, Sen Stephen
  •   petitions
    • racial discrimination act 1975
  •   notices
    • presentation
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Bushby, Sen David
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • standing committee of privileges
      • reference
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Wong, Sen Penny
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • senate temporary orders
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   committees
    • allocation of departments and agencies
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   business
    • senate temporary orders
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • consideration of legislation
      • Back, Sen Chris
  •   motions
    • tasmania: floods
      • Polley, Sen Helen
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
  •   bills
    • racial discrimination amendment bill 2016
      • first reading
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • second reading
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Dastyari, Sen Sam
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
  •   motions
    • banking and financial services industry
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Williams, Sen John
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • Williams, Sen John
      • Culleton, Sen Rodney
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Dastyari, Sen Sam
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
    • estimates questions on notice
      • Dastyari, Sen Sam
    • aboriginal deaths in custody
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • immigration detention
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • Dastyari, Sen Sam
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • division
  •   motions
    • international overdose awareness day
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
  •   committees
    • economics references committee
      • reference
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • McGrath, Sen James
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
  •   business
    • withdrawal
      • Dastyari, Sen Sam
  •   matters of public importance
    • economy
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher
      • Paterson, Sen James
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
  •   first speech
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • Hume, Sen Jane
  •   matters of public importance
    • economy
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Smith, Sen Dean
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • australian commission for law enforcement integrity committee
      • report
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade joint committee
      • report
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • public accounts and audit committee
      • report
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • migration committee
      • report
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • national disability insurance scheme
      • report
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   ministerial statements
    • military commemorations
      • Sinodinos, Sen Arthur
  •   bills
    • australian crime commission (national policing information charges) bill 2016, australian crime commission amendment (national policing information) bill 2016, social services legislation amendment (miscellaneous measures) bill 2016, omnibus repeal day (autumn 2015) bill 2016
    • income tax (attribution managed investment trusts—offsets) bill 2016, income tax rates amendment (managed investment trusts) bill 2016, medicare levy amendment (attribution managed investment trusts) act 2016, national disability insurance scheme amendment act 2016, tax and superannuation laws amendment (2016 measures no. 1) act 2016, tax laws amendment (new tax system for managed investment trusts) act 2016, tax laws amendment (tax incentives for innovation) act 2016
      • assent
  •   governor-general's speech
    • address-in-reply
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Rice, Sen Janet
      • Paterson, Sen James
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
  •   adjournment
    • Reynolds, Sen Linda (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • 45th parliament, turnbull government
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher
    • marriage
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
    • donations to political parties
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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