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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • treasury laws amendment (accelerated depreciation for small business entities) bill 2018
      • in committee
        • CHAIR, The
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Bushby, Sen David
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • division
      • third reading
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
    • corporations amendment (crowd-sourced funding for proprietary companies) bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
      • in committee
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
      • third reading
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
    • airports amendment bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Carr, Sen Kim
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
        • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
        • Fawcett, Sen David
        • division
      • third reading
        • Fawcett, Sen David
    • australian institute of health and welfare amendment bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Polley, Sen Helen
        • Fawcett, Sen David
      • in committee
        • Fawcett, Sen David
      • third reading
        • Fawcett, Sen David
    • civil law and justice legislation amendment bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Polley, Sen Helen
        • Brockman, Sen Slade
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
  •   statements by senators
    • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • economy
      • Brockman, Sen Slade
    • health care
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher
    • aboriginal deaths in custody
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • canberra community
      • Seselja, Sen Zed
    • bureau of meteorology, wattle day, republican movement
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • pauline hanson's one nation
      • Burston, Sen Brian
    • water
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • energy
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
  •   ministerial arrangements
    • Cormann, Sen Mathias
  •   questions without notice
    • prime minister (Polley, Sen Helen)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • aged care (McGrath, Sen James)
    • drought (Ketter, Sen Christopher)
    • trans-pacific partnership agreement (Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah)
    • energy (Martin, Sen Steve)
    • nuclear waste (Patrick, Sen Rex)
    • broadband (Smith, Sen Dean)
    • climate change (Leyonhjelm, Sen David)
    • members of parliament: conduct (McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri)
    • economy (Hume, Sen Jane)
    • members of parliament: conduct (Keneally, Sen Kristina)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • prime minister
      • Brown, Sen Carol
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
      • Paterson, Sen James
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
  •   personal explanations
    • Reynolds, Sen Linda
  •   petitions
    • bass strait passenger vehicle equalisation scheme
  •   notices
    • presentation
      • Williams, Sen John
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Watt, Sen Murray
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • leave of absence
      • Bushby, Sen David
  •   notices
    • postponement
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   motions
    • national child protection week
      • Watt, Sen Murray
  •   documents
    • australian pesticides and veterinary medicines authority
      • order for the production of documents
        • Griff, Sen Stirling
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   motions
    • film industry
      • Griff, Sen Stirling
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • homelessness
      • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
    • aged care
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • veterans
      • Anning, Sen Fraser
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • aboriginal deaths in custody
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • energy
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • Patrick, Sen Rex
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Patrick, Sen Rex
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
    • trans-pacific partnership agreement
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Patrick, Sen Rex
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • division
  •   committees
    • legal and constitutional affairs legislation committee
      • Patrick, Sen Rex
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • Patrick, Sen Rex
      • Hanson, Sen Pauline
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • division
  •   motions
    • freedom of speech
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
    • climate change
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Patrick, Sen Rex
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
    • mining
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • Hanson, Sen Pauline
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • division
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
    • saudi arabia and the united arab emirates
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
  •   matters of public importance
    • immigration
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Hanson, Sen Pauline
      • Molan, Sen Jim
      • Carr, Sen Kim
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
      • Pratt, Sen Louise
      • Storer, Sen Timothy
      • Anning, Sen Fraser
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • regulations and ordinances committee, human rights committee
      • report
        • Hume, Sen Jane
    • scrutiny of bills committee
      • scrutiny digest
        • Ketter, Sen Christopher
  •   committees
    • membership
      • Williams, Sen John (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Reynolds, Sen Linda
  •   bills
    • family law amendment (family violence and cross-examination of parties) bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Reynolds, Sen Linda
      • second reading
        • Reynolds, Sen Linda
    • tobacco plain packaging amendment bill 2018, veterans' entitlements amendment bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Reynolds, Sen Linda
      • second reading
        • Reynolds, Sen Linda
    • social services legislation amendment (cashless debit card trial expansion) bill 2018
      • returned from the house of representatives
  •   committees
    • national broadband network - joint standing
      • membership
  •   regulations and determinations
    • great barrier reef marine park amendment (hammerhead shark) regulations 2018
      • disallowance
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Colbeck, Sen Richard
        • division
  •   bills
    • migration (validation of port appointment) bill 2018
      • report from committee
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • civil law and justice legislation amendment bill 2017
      • second reading
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
      • in committee
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
        • Farrell, Sen Don
        • TEMPORARY CHAIR, The
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
        • Farrell, Sen Don
        • division
        • Anning, Sen Fraser
        • Farrell, Sen Don
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
        • division
      • third reading
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
    • treasury laws amendment (black economy taskforce measures no. 1) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
  •   documents
    • tabling

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