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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade references committee, select committee on health
      • meeting
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • counter-terrorism legislation amendment (foreign fighters) bill 2014
      • in committee
        • CHAIRMAN, The
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • division
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Brandis, Sen George
  •   committees
    • scrutiny of bills committee
      • report
        • Polley, Sen Helen
  •   bills
    • counter-terrorism legislation amendment (foreign fighters) bill 2014
      • in committee
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • division
        • CHAIRMAN, The
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Day, Sen Bob
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • division
        • CHAIRMAN, The
        • division
        • CHAIRMAN, The
      • third reading
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
  •   statements by senators
    • albany convoy commemoration
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • aged care
      • Polley, Sen Helen
    • coal seam gas
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
    • coal seam gas, australian national university
      • Edwards, Sen Sean
    • trade with china
      • Wong, Sen Penny
    • australian security intelligence organisation, russia
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
    • shipping
      • Colbeck, Sen Richard
    • goods and services tax
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • fuel prices (Cameron, Sen Doug)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • higher education (Ruston, Sen Anne)
    • australian defence force (Conroy, Sen Stephen)
    • indigenous employment (Siewert, Sen Rachel)
    • building and construction industry (McKenzie, Sen Bridget)
    • defence procurement (Gallacher, Sen Alex)
    • defence procurement (Xenophon, Sen Nick)
    • economic competitiveness (Leyonhjelm, Sen David)
    • minister for defence (Sterle, Sen Glenn)
    • aged care (Smith, Sen Dean)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • fuel prices
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • Smith, Sen Dean
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • indigenous employment
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • Williams, Sen John
    • presentation
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • reporting date
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • civil law and justice legislation amendment bill 2014, counter-terrorism legislation amendment bill (no. 1) 2014
      • first reading
        • Brandis, Sen George
      • second reading
        • Brandis, Sen George
  •   motions
    • housing affordability
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   documents
    • ebola
      • order for the production of documents
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
    • broadband
      • order for the production of documents
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   motions
    • carbon pricing
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
      • Milne, Sen Christine
    • international brain tumour awareness week
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • international day of the girl child
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
    • sunswift university of new south wales solar racing team
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • trans-pacific partnership agreement
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • division
  •   matters of urgency
    • ebola
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Back, Sen Chris
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Lines, Sen Susan
      • Reynolds, Sen Linda
  •   documents
    • Lines, Sen Susan (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • australian charities and not-for-profits commission
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • australia council
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
  •   committees
    • scrutiny of bills committee
      • report
        • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • regulations and ordinances committee
      • delegated legislation monitor
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • joint standing committee on treaties
      • report
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade references committee
      • report
        • Gallacher, Sen Alex
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • community affairs references committee
      • report
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Smith, Sen Dean
        • Brown, Sen Carol
        • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
  •   documents
    • darfur
      • tabling
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
  •   committees
    • joint standing committee on treaties
      • report
        • Fawcett, Sen David
  •   documents
    • asylum seekers
      • tabling
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
  •   committees
    • membership
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Nash, Sen Fiona
  •   bills
    • private health insurance amendment bill (no. 1) 2014
      • first reading
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
      • second reading
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
    • parliamentary entitlements legislation amendment bill 2014
      • first reading
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
      • second reading
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
  •   addresses by world leaders
    • prime minister of the united kingdom
    • president of the people's republic of china
    • prime minister of the republic of india
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
  •   bills
    • higher education and research reform amendment bill 2014
      • second reading
        • Carr, Sen Kim
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
        • Lines, Sen Susan
  •   adjournment
    • Williams, Sen John (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • fallof the berlin wall: 25th anniversary
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
    • university of newcastle: central coast campus
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
    • western australia: sharks
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • freedom of religion
      • Fawcett, Sen David
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling
    • order for the production of documents

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