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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   business
    • days and hours of meeting
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   bills
    • water legislation amendment (sustainable diversion limit adjustment) bill 2016
      • second reading
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • third reading
        • Back, Sen Chris (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • counter-terrorism legislation amendment bill (no. 1) 2016
      • second reading
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
  •   questions without notice
    • day, mr bob, ao (Gallagher, Sen Katy)
    • national security (Reynolds, Sen Linda)
    • day, mr bob, ao (Gallacher, Sen Alex)
    • asylum seekers (McKim, Sen Nicholas)
    • registered organisations (Hume, Sen Jane)
    • education funding (Cameron, Sen Doug)
    • australia-singapore comprehensive strategic partnership (Macdonald, Sen Ian)
    • child welfare (Hinch, Sen Derryn)
    • vocational education and training (Farrell, Sen Don)
    • beef industry (O'Sullivan, Sen Barry)
    • international development assistance (Moore, Sen Claire)
    • media ownership (Smith, Sen Dean)
    • robb, hon. andrew, ao (McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • education funding, vocational education and training
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Paterson, Sen James
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • Hume, Sen Jane
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
    • asylum seekers
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   committees
    • environment and communications legislation committee
      • reporting date
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   documents
    • north east vocational college
      • order for the production of documents
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   committees
    • public accounts and audit committee
      • meeting
        • Bushby, Sen David
  •   motions
    • political donations
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
      • division
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Wong, Sen Penny
  •   matters of public importance
    • asylum seekers
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • Paterson, Sen James
      • Carr, Sen Kim
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • Reynolds, Sen Linda
      • Polley, Sen Helen
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security
      • report
        • Bushby, Sen David
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
    • joint standing committee on treaties
      • report
        • Williams, Sen John
    • finance and public administration references committee
      • report
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • report
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Watt, Sen Murray
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
        • Williams, Sen John
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade references committee
      • government response to report
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
    • finance and public administration references committee
      • report
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
  •   committees
    • consideration
    • membership
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Scullion, Sen Nigel
  •   bills
    • narcotic drugs legislation amendment bill 2016, narcotic drugs (licence charges) bill 2016
      • first reading
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
      • second reading
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
    • offshore petroleum and greenhouse gas storage amendment (petroleum pools and other measures) bill 2016, register of foreign ownership of agricultural land amendment (water) bill 2016
      • first reading
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
      • second reading
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
  •   committees
    • joint standing committee on treaties, joint standing committee on northern australia
      • membership
    • procedure committee
      • report
        • Lines, Sen Susan
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
  •   bills
    • counter-terrorism legislation amendment bill (no. 1) 2016
      • second reading
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • division
  •   adjournment
    • Sterle, Sen Glenn (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • seafood labelling
      • McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri
    • norfolk island
      • Hanson, Sen Pauline
    • community legal centres
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher
    • child sexual abuse
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
    • rural and regional education services
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
    • middle east
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • indigenous affairs
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • medicare
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • intersex day of solidarity
      • Rice, Sen Janet
    • building and construction industry
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • australian defence force
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
    • gun control
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
    • women's workforce participation
      • Moore, Sen Claire
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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