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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • education and employment references committee
      • meeting
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   bills
    • productivity commission amendment (addressing inequality) bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Smith, Sen Dean
        • McGrath, Sen James
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • division
      • third reading
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • division
    • a fair go for australians in trade bill 2018 [no. 2]
      • second reading
        • Carr, Sen Kim
        • Brockman, Sen Slade
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
  •   motions
    • national apology to victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Keneally, Sen Kristina
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
      • Griff, Sen Stirling
      • Polley, Sen Helen
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Lines, Sen Susan
      • Pratt, Sen Louise
      • Kitching, Sen Kimberley
  •   ministerial arrangements
    • Cormann, Sen Mathias
  •   questions without notice
    • prime minister (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • economy (Stoker, Sen Amanda)
    • prime minister (Collins, Sen Jacinta)
    • small business (Molan, Sen Jim)
    • schools (Faruqi, Sen Mehreen)
    • prime minister (Farrell, Sen Don)
    • national security (Hanson, Sen Pauline)
    • broadband (Williams, Sen John)
    • foodbank (McAllister, Sen Jenny)
    • queensland: mining (McGrath, Sen James)
    • immigration detention (McKim, Sen Nicholas)
    • member for dunkley (Carr, Sen Kim)
    • higher education (Brockman, Sen Slade)
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • foodbank
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • prime minister
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
      • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
      • Kitching, Sen Kimberley
      • Williams, Sen John
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
  •   personal explanations
    • Cameron, Sen Doug
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • schools
      • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
    • national security
      • Hanson, Sen Pauline
  •   condolences
    • mack, mr edward carrington (ted)
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Bushby, Sen David
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • reporting date
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   motions
    • political donations
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • division
    • my health record
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Watt, Sen Murray
      • division
    • day of the unborn child
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • division
    • abortion
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
    • carers
      • Griff, Sen Stirling
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • division
    • minister for the environment
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • division
  •   committees
    • environment and communications references committee
      • reference
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • division
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   motions
    • horse racing
      • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
    • e-cigarettes
      • Georgiou, Sen Peter
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • division
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
    • immigration
      • Anning, Sen Fraser
    • australian flag
      • Anning, Sen Fraser
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • anti-poverty week
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • division
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
      • division
  •   matters of public importance
    • hospitals
      • Duniam, Sen Jonathon (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Polley, Sen Helen
      • Hume, Sen Jane
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
      • Georgiou, Sen Peter
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher
      • Brockman, Sen Slade
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • Griff, Sen Stirling
  •   documents
    • royal commission into aboriginal deaths in custody
      • consideration
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • department of home affairs
      • consideration
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
  •   regulations and determinations
    • social security (administration) (reasonable excuse - participation payments) determination 2018, social security (administration) (job search efforts) determination 2018, social security (administration) legislation amendment and repeal (reasonable excuse - participation payments) determination 2018
      • disallowance
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   regulations and determinations
    • social security (administration) legislation amendment and repeal (reasonable excuse – participation payments) determination 2018
      • disallowance
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   notices
    • presentation
      • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
  •   documents
    • department of home affairs
      • consideration
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   ministerial statements
    • veterans
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   committees
    • select committee on charity fundraising in the 21st century
      • membership
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   bills
    • treasury laws amendment (making sure every state and territory gets their fair share of gst) bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • second reading
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
    • defence amendment (call out of the australian defence force) bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • second reading
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • aboriginal and torres strait islander land and sea future fund bill 2018, aboriginal and torres strait islander land and sea future fund (consequential amendments) bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • second reading
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • aboriginal and torres strait islander amendment (indigenous land corporation) bill 2018, aviation transport security amendment bill 2018, copyright amendment (online infringement) bill 2018, corporations amendment (strengthening protections for employee entitlements) bill 2018, national housing finance and investment corporation amendment bill 2018, shipping registration amendment bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • second reading
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   committees
    • royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse
      • reporting date
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • customs amendment (comprehensive and progressive agreement for trans-pacific partnership implementation) bill 2018, customs tariff amendment (comprehensive and progressive agreement for trans-pacific partnership implementation) bill 2018, government procurement (judicial review) bill 2017, civil law and justice legislation amendment bill 2018, customs amendment (collecting tobacco duties at the border) bill 2018, treasury laws amendment (australian consumer law review) bill 2018, treasury laws amendment (gift cards) bill 2018, treasury laws amendment (lower taxes for small and medium businesses) bill 2018, veterans' affairs legislation amendment (omnibus) bill 2018
      • assent
    • intelligence services amendment (enhanced parliamentary oversight of intelligence agencies) bill 2018
      • report from committee
        • Hume, Sen Jane
  •   motions
    • child sexual abuse
      • Kitching, Sen Kimberley
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • Storer, Sen Timothy
      • Steele-John, Sen Jordon
  •   bills
    • treasury laws amendment (making sure every state and territory gets their fair share of gst) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Brockman, Sen Slade
        • Lines, Sen Susan
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Ketter, Sen Christopher
  •   adjournment
    • Bernardi, Sen Cory (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • nuclear energy
      • Molan, Sen Jim
    • road safety
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
    • newton, mrs joyce, oam
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • report

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