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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   committees
    • joint standing committee on electoral matters
      • membership
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   statement by the president
    • first speeches
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   statements
    • deputy prime minister
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   governor-general's speech
    • address-in-reply
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • Scullion, Sen Nigel
      • Cash, Sen Michaelia
  •   ministerial arrangements
    • Brandis, Sen George
  •   questions without notice
    • marriage (McAllister, Sen Jenny)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • budget (Hume, Sen Jane)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • turnbull government (Gallagher, Sen Katy)
    • asylum seekers (McKim, Sen Nicholas)
    • workplace relations (Paterson, Sen James)
    • defence procurement (Carr, Sen Kim)
    • australian defence force (Reynolds, Sen Linda)
    • marriage (Hinch, Sen Derryn)
    • attorney-general (Cameron, Sen Doug)
    • trade (Fawcett, Sen David)
    • turnbull government (Collins, Sen Jacinta)
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • defence procurement
      • Payne, Sen Marise
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • marriage
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
      • Brown, Sen Carol
    • asylum seekers
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   petitions
    • better access to palliative care program
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Bushby, Sen David
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   bills
    • australian broadcasting corporation amendment (rural and regional advocacy) bill 2015
      • Bushby, Sen David
    • freedom to marry bill 2016
      • first reading
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
      • second reading
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
  •   documents
    • environment and communications references committee report: government response
      • order for the production of documents
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
  •   committees
    • community affairs references committee
      • reference
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • division
  •   bills
    • national cancer screening register bill 2016, national cancer screening register (consequential and transitional provisions) bill 2016
      • reference to committee
        • Watt, Sen Murray
        • McGrath, Sen James
        • division
  •   committees
    • economics references committee
      • reports
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
  •   motions
    • our ocean 2016 conference
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   committees
    • environment and communications references committee
      • membership
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
  •   documents
    • australian pesticides and veterinary medicines authority
      • order for the production of documents
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • McGrath, Sen James
    • community affairs references committee
      • order for the production of documents
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
  •   matters of public importance
    • donations to political parties
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Conroy, Sen Stephen
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • Paterson, Sen James
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
  •   first speech
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
  •   first speech
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • Watt, Sen Murray
  •   matters of public importance
    • donations to political parties
      • Brown, Sen Carol
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
  •   documents
    • australian national audit office
      • consideration
        • Gallacher, Sen Alex
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • international air services commission
      • consideration
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
  •   petitions
    • palliative care
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
  •   committees
    • report
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • senators' interests committee
      • report
        • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
      • membership
        • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • joint standing committee on the national broadband network
      • appointment
        • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • excise tariff amendment (tobacco) bill 2016, customs tariff amendment (tobacco) bill 2016
      • first reading
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • second reading
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
  •   adjournment
    • Marshall, Sen Gavin (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • samoa: coffee industry
      • Williams, Sen John
    • road transport industry
      • Sterle, Sen Glenn
    • child sexual abuse
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
    • south australia
      • Farrell, Sen Don
    • national child protection week
      • Pratt, Sen Louise
    • federal election
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • turnbull government
      • Polley, Sen Helen
    • mental health
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • palliative care tasmania
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • veterans
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
    • child sexual abuse
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • australian football league: women's all-stars
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
    • donations to political parties
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
    • australian defence force
      • Kakoschke-Moore, Sen Skye
    • turnbull government
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • williams, dr bill
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
    • bondi pavilion
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling
    • tabling

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