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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
    • privileges committee
      • membership
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security amendment bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Farrell, Sen Don
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Dodson, Sen Patrick
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Watt, Sen Murray
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • Kakoschke-Moore, Sen Skye
    • presentation
  •   committees
    • selection of bills committee
      • report
        • Bushby, Sen David
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • leave of absence
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   committees
    • economics legislation committee, economics references committee
      • meeting
        • Bushby, Sen David
  •   motions
    • photography in the senate
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
  •   committees
    • environment and communications references committee
      • reference
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • McGrath, Sen James
    • education and employment references committee
      • reference
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • McGrath, Sen James
    • education and employment references committee
      • reference
        • Marshall, Sen Gavin
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • Kakoschke-Moore, Sen Skye
  •   committees
    • rural and regional affairs and transport references committee
      • reference
        • Bushby, Sen David
  •   motions
    • noble, mr marlon, united nations committee on the rights of persons with disabilities
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • peres, mr shimon
      • Bushby, Sen David
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
    • carers
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • infrastructure
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • division
  •   committees
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade references committee
      • membership
        • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
        • McGrath, Sen James
    • northern australia committee
      • membership
  •   bills
    • fair work amendment (respect for emergency services volunteers) bill 2016
      • assent
  •   notices
    • presentation
      • Williams, Sen John
  •   bills
    • national cancer screening register bill 2016, national cancer screening register (consequential and transitional provisions) bill 2016
      • second reading
        • Griff, Sen Stirling
    • international tax agreements amendment bill 2016
      • first reading
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • second reading
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • third reading
        • Reynolds, Sen Linda (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • industry research and development amendment (innovation and science australia) bill 2016
      • first reading
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • second reading
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • third reading
        • Reynolds, Sen Linda (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • statute law revision (spring 2016) bill 2016
      • second reading
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • third reading
        • Reynolds, Sen Linda (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • national cancer screening register bill 2016, national cancer screening register (consequential and transitional provisions) bill 2016
      • second reading
        • Griff, Sen Stirling
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • division
        • Griff, Sen Stirling
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
      • in committee
        • Polley, Sen Helen
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Polley, Sen Helen
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • division
        • Polley, Sen Helen
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Polley, Sen Helen
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • division
      • third reading
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
  •   questions without notice
    • attorney-general (O'Neill, Sen Deb)
    • national security (Duniam, Sen Jonathon)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • attorney-general (Farrell, Sen Don)
    • climate change (Di Natale, Sen Richard)
    • attorney-general (Collins, Sen Jacinta)
    • renewable energy (Roberts, Sen Malcolm)
    • australia-singapore comprehensive strategic partnership (Macdonald, Sen Ian)
    • new south wales: shark nets (Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter)
    • attorney-general (Chisholm, Sen Anthony)
    • workplace relations (Paterson, Sen James)
    • renewable energy (Urquhart, Sen Anne)
    • resources and northern australia (O'Sullivan, Sen Barry)
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • attorney-general, royal commission into the child protection and youth detention systems of the northern territory
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
      • Brandis, Sen George
    • medicinal marijuana, mental health
      • Nash, Sen Fiona
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • attorney-general
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • Smith, Sen Dean
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
      • Paterson, Sen James
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
    • new south wales: shark nets
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • Fawcett, Sen David
  •   committees
    • publications committee
      • report
        • Fawcett, Sen David
    • finance and public administration references committee
      • report
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • government response to report
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade references committee
      • report
        • Gallacher, Sen Alex
        • Fawcett, Sen David
  •   first speech
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • Griff, Sen Stirling
  •   documents
    • national cancer screening register legislation
      • tabling
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
  •   committees
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade references committee
      • report
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
  •   motions
    • defence facilities: chemical contamination
      • Burston, Sen Brian
      • Back, Sen Chris
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Williams, Sen John
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
    • photography in the senate
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • defence facilities: chemical contamination
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
  •   petitions
    • breastfeeding
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
  •   notices
    • presentation
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
  •   documents
    • aged care complaints commissioner
      • consideration
        • Polley, Sen Helen
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • health select committee
      • report
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
    • economics references committee
      • report
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
  •   committees
    • consideration
  •   auditor-general's reports
    • report no. 33 of 2015-16
      • consideration
        • Gallacher, Sen Alex
  •   auditor-general's reports
    • consideration
  •   documents
    • video games industry
      • order for the production of documents
        • McGrath, Sen James
  •   committees
    • membership
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   adjournment
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • indigenous affairs
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • domestic and family violence
      • Dodson, Sen Patrick
    • anti-poverty week
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • sugar industry
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
    • peres, mr shimon, battle of beersheba
      • Fawcett, Sen David
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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