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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   statement by the president
    • senate clocks
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • aged care (living longer living better) bill 2013, australian aged care quality agency bill 2013, australian aged care quality agency (transitional provisions) bill 2013, aged care (bond security) amendment bill 2013, aged care (bond security) levy amendment bill 2013
      • second reading
        • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Smith, Sen Dean
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
      • explanatory memorandum
        • McLucas, Sen Jan
        • division
        • Marshall, Sen Gavin (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • division
        • Marshall, Sen Gavin (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • division
        • Marshall, Sen Gavin (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • division
      • third reading
        • Marshall, Sen Gavin (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
  •   motions
    • australian education bill 2013
      • Mason, Sen Brett
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
  •   bills
    • australian education bill 2013, australian education (consequential and transitional provisions) bill 2013
      • second reading
        • Mason, Sen Brett
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
        • Madigan, Sen John
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Back, Sen Chris
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Boyce, Sen Sue
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
      • third reading
        • PRESIDENT, The
    • public interest disclosure bill 2013, public interest disclosure (consequential amendments) bill 2013
      • second reading
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Sinodinos, Sen Arthur
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Milne, Sen Christine
      • third reading
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   statement by the president
    • malcolm, mr terry
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   distinguished visitors
    • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   ministerial arrangements
    • Conroy, Sen Stephen
  •   questions without notice
    • federal government (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • climate change (Pratt, Sen Louise)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • carbon pricing (Cormann, Sen Mathias)
    • climate change (Milne, Sen Christine)
    • carbon pricing (Ryan, Sen Scott)
    • science and research (Polley, Sen Helen)
    • carbon pricing (Williams, Sen John)
    • national security (Xenophon, Sen Nick)
    • carbon pricing (Ruston, Sen Anne)
  •   answers to questions on notice
    • question no. 2980
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • Conroy, Sen Stephen
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • carbon pricing
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • Furner, Sen Mark
      • Edwards, Sen Sean
      • Sterle, Sen Glenn
      • Fawcett, Sen David
    • climate change
      • Milne, Sen Christine
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   notices
    • postponement
    • withdrawal
      • Madigan, Sen John
  •   bills
    • overseas aid (millennium development goals) bill 2013
      • first reading
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • second reading
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   motions
    • national transport commission
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
    • great barrier reef
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
    • universal periodic review working group of the united nations human rights council
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • minimum employment standards
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
    • convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
      • division
    • coal seam gas
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
    • occupational health and safety
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
    • marine parks
      • Pratt, Sen Louise
      • division
    • global fund to fight aids, tuberculosis and malaria
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
    • whaling
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
  •   committees
    • rural and regional affairs and transport references committee
      • report
        • Heffernan, Sen Bill
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Edwards, Sen Sean
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
    • legal and constitutional affairs legislation committee
      • report
        • Brown, Sen Carol
  •   first speech
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • Lines, Sen Susan
  •   parliamentary representation
    • valedictory
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Humphries, Sen Gary
      • Joyce, Sen Barnaby
      • Lundy, Sen Kate
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
      • Nash, Sen Fiona
      • Boswell, Sen Ronald
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Williams, Sen John
      • Mason, Sen Brett
  •   adjournment
    • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
    • joyce, senator barnaby
      • Mason, Sen Brett
    • humphries, senator gary, joyce, senator barnaby
      • Cash, Sen Michaelia
    • joyce, senator barnaby
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
    • humphries, senator gary, joyce, senator barnaby
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
    • humphries, senator gary, joyce, senator barnaby
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • australian labor party
      • Pratt, Sen Louise
    • foreign investment
      • Madigan, Sen John
  •   documents
    • tabling

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