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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • economics references committee
      • meeting
  •   parliamentary representation
    • tasmania
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • senators sworn
  •   bills
    • social security (administration) amendment (consumer lease exclusion) bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Lindgren, Sen Joanna
        • Brown, Sen Carol
        • Reynolds, Sen Linda
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   committees
    • selection of bills committee
      • report
        • Bushby, Sen David
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • Moore, Sen Claire
  •   committees
    • economics references committee, legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • reporting date
        • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   petitions
    • goods and services tax
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
  •   committees
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade references committee
      • reference
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • reference
        • Bushby, Sen David
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • reference
        • Rice, Sen Janet
  •   motions
    • new south wales local government
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • division
  •   committees
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • reference
        • Lazarus, Sen Glenn
  •   motions
    • support association for the women of afghanistan
      • Wright, Sen Penny
    • netball world cup
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
    • lyme disease
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • mining
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
      • division
    • montara oil spill
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • china-australia free trade agreement
      • Madigan, Sen John
      • division
    • type 1 diabetes
      • Muir, Sen Ricky
  •   committees
    • membership
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   bills
    • gene technology amendment bill 2015, passports legislation amendment (integrity) bill 2015
      • first reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • veterans' affairs legislation amendment (2015 budget measures) bill 2015
      • first reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • gene technology amendment bill 2015
      • second reading
        • McLucas, Sen Jan
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
      • third reading
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
    • australian defence force superannuation bill 2015, australian defence force cover bill 2015, defence legislation amendment (superannuation and adf cover) bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • third reading
        • Back, Sen Chris (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • passports legislation amendment (integrity) bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • third reading
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • migration amendment (maintaining the good order of immigration detention facilities) bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • McGrath, Sen James
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
  •   questions without notice
    • australian constitution (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • employment (McGrath, Sen James)
    • abbott government (Sterle, Sen Glenn)
    • mining (Waters, Sen Larissa)
    • national disability insurance scheme (Moore, Sen Claire)
    • trade with china (Madigan, Sen John)
    • trade with china (Back, Sen Chris)
    • australian competition and consumer commission (Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter)
    • indigenous affairs (McLucas, Sen Jan)
    • early childhood education (Lindgren, Sen Joanna)
    • defence procurement (Conroy, Sen Stephen)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • answers to questions
      • McLucas, Sen Jan
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • Edwards, Sen Sean
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • australian competition and consumer commission
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   committees
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • membership
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
    • joint standing committee on national capital and external territories
      • membership
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   committees
    • publications joint committee
      • report
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   delegation reports
    • parliamentary delegation to singapore and canada
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   committees
    • finance and public administration references committee
      • report
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
        • Moore, Sen Claire
    • rural and regional affairs and transport references committee
      • government response to report
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
  •   ministerial statements
    • export market development grants scheme
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
  •   motions
    • national science week
      • Carr, Sen Kim
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Rice, Sen Janet
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher
      • Edwards, Sen Sean
  •   parliamentary representation
    • tasmania
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   committees
    • community affairs references committee
      • report
        • Moore, Sen Claire
    • economics references committee
      • report
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
    • wind turbines select committee
      • report
        • Madigan, Sen John
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • report
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   adjournment
    • liberal party
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Sterle, Sen Glenn
    • employment
      • Madigan, Sen John
    • environment
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • departmental and agency appointments and vacancies
    • indexed list of files

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