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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • international monetary agreements amendment (new arrangements to borrow) bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • third reading
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • division
    • electoral and other legislation amendment bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
        • Reynolds, Sen Linda
        • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • in committee
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Farrell, Sen Don
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
        • TEMPORARY CHAIR, The
        • division
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Hinch, Sen Derryn
        • division
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Hinch, Sen Derryn
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • division
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Farrell, Sen Don
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • division
      • third reading
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
    • liquid fuel emergency amendment bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
      • in committee
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
      • third reading
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
    • product emissions standards bill 2017, product emissions standards (excise) charges bill 2017, product emissions standards (customs) charges bill 2017, product emissions standards (consequential provisions) bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • division
  •   questions without notice
    • renewable energy (Moore, Sen Claire)
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • procedural text
    • iraq and syria (McKenzie, Sen Bridget)
    • renewable energy (Collins, Sen Jacinta)
    • trade unions (Smith, Sen Dean)
    • climate change (Di Natale, Sen Richard)
    • newlands civil construction: senator o'sullivan (Watt, Sen Murray)
    • infrastructure (Georgiou, Sen Peter)
    • energy (Fawcett, Sen David)
    • newlands civil construction: senator o'sullivan (Chisholm, Sen Anthony)
    • resources industry (Williams, Sen John)
    • burma (McKim, Sen Nicholas)
    • defence procurement (Gallacher, Sen Alex)
  •   statement by the president
    • parliamentary commission of inquiry
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   answers to questions on notice
    • Wong, Sen Penny
    • Nash, Sen Fiona
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • disability support pension: transvaginal mesh
      • Payne, Sen Marise
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • newlands civil construction: senator o'sullivan
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Hume, Sen Jane
      • Watt, Sen Murray
      • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
    • burma
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
  •   notices
    • presentation
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • leave of absence
      • Bushby, Sen David
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • reporting date
    • finance and public administration references committee
      • reference
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • McGrath, Sen James
  •   bills
    • customs amendment (safer cladding) bill 2017
      • first reading
        • Kakoschke-Moore, Sen Skye
      • second reading
        • Kakoschke-Moore, Sen Skye
  •   motions
    • aboriginal deaths in custody
      • Kakoschke-Moore, Sen Skye
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • homeless aged-care funding
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   committees
    • select committee on lending to primary production customers
      • reporting date
        • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
  •   motions
    • energy
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
      • division
  •   matters of public importance
    • energy
      • Williams, Sen John (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
      • Hume, Sen Jane
      • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
      • Williams, Sen John
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • Paterson, Sen James
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade references committee
      • report
        • Gallacher, Sen Alex
  •   parliamentary zone
    • proposal for works
      • Payne, Sen Marise
  •   documents
    • asylum seekers
      • order for the production of documents
        • Payne, Sen Marise
  •   bills
    • australian citizenship legislation amendment (strengthening the requirements for australian citizenship and other measures) bill 2017, civil law and justice legislation amendment bill 2017, privacy amendment (re-identification offence) bill 2016
      • explanatory memorandum
        • Payne, Sen Marise
  •   committees
    • select committee into the political influence of donations
      • membership
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Payne, Sen Marise
  •   bills
    • migration amendment (validation of decisions) bill 2017
      • assent
    • corporations amendment (modernisation of members registration) bill 2017
      • report
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • product emissions standards bill 2017, product emissions standards (excise) charges bill 2017, product emissions standards (customs) charges bill 2017, product emissions standards (consequential provisions) bill 2017
      • second reading
      • in committee
        • TEMPORARY CHAIR, The
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • division
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • division
      • third reading
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
    • broadcasting legislation amendment (broadcasting reform) bill 2017, commercial broadcasting (tax) bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • division
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • division
    • treasury laws amendment (2017 enterprise incentives no. 2) bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Paterson, Sen James
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • in committee
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • division
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • third reading
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
  •   adjournment
    • Cormann, Sen Mathias
    • ballarat basketball association
      • Hume, Sen Jane
    • yemen
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling
    • tabling

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