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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
    • joint standing committee on the national broadband network
      • membership
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • treasury laws amendment (income tax relief) bill 2016
      • second reading
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Kakoschke-Moore, Sen Skye
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Marshall, Sen Gavin (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
  •   party office holders
    • australian labor party
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Brandis, Sen George
  •   questions without notice
    • attorney-general (Farrell, Sen Don)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • country fire authority (Hume, Sen Jane)
    • attorney-general (Gallagher, Sen Katy)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • oil exploration (Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah)
    • marriage (Reynolds, Sen Linda)
    • attorney-general (Watt, Sen Murray)
    • defence industry (Fawcett, Sen David)
    • illicit drugs (Lambie, Sen Jacqui)
    • attorney-general (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • mental health (McKenzie, Sen Bridget)
    • northern territory: juvenile detention (Gallacher, Sen Alex)
    • child care (Williams, Sen John)
    • attorney-general (O'Neill, Sen Deb)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • attorney-general
      • Farrell, Sen Don
      • Paterson, Sen James
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
      • Smith, Sen Dean
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • postponement
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • rearrangement
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • rearrangement
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   committees
    • law enforcement committee, australian commission for law enforcement integrity committee, public accounts and audit committee, joint standing committee on electoral matters
      • meeting
        • Bushby, Sen David
  •   motions
    • wilson, ms rebecca
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
    • world day against the death penalty
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • indigenous artefacts
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • national headspace day
      • Kakoschke-Moore, Sen Skye
    • human trafficking
      • Kakoschke-Moore, Sen Skye
  •   committees
    • red tape committee
      • appointment
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
  •   motions
    • philippines
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
    • australian statistician
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
    • ministerial standards
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • division
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
    • housing affordability
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • division
    • united states presidential election
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
  •   matters of public importance
    • medicare
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Polley, Sen Helen
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
      • Smith, Sen Dean
      • Brown, Sen Carol
      • Reynolds, Sen Linda
  •   first speech
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • Kakoschke-Moore, Sen Skye
  •   first speech
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • Burston, Sen Brian
  •   documents
    • consideration
    • attorney-general's department
      • consideration
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
  •   committees
    • environment and communications legislation committee
      • additional information
        • Williams, Sen John
    • economics legislation committee, economics references committee
      • report
        • Williams, Sen John
    • senators' interests committee
      • report
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • community affairs legislation committee
      • report
        • Williams, Sen John
    • joint committee of public accounts and audit
      • government response to report
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   ministerial statements
    • northern australia
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Moore, Sen Claire
  •   committees
    • membership
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
    • parliamentary library committee
      • membership
  •   bills
    • treasury laws amendment (income tax relief) bill 2016
      • in committee
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
  •   adjournment
    • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
    • knight, mrs annette am
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • child care
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
    • working holiday maker program
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
    • western sydney airport
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
    • s kidman & co.
      • Paterson, Sen James
    • manufacturing
      • Marshall, Sen Gavin
    • mental health
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • carers
      • Brown, Sen Carol
    • women in sport
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
    • definium technologies
      • Polley, Sen Helen
    • western bulldogs football club
      • Rice, Sen Janet
    • domestic and family violence
      • McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri
    • new south wales government
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
    • healthy welfare card, bass strait fast cat feasibility study, aged care
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
    • health funding, mental health, tesch, ms liesl, am, druery, mr frank
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling
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