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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   governor-general's speech
    • address-in-reply
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • sex discrimination amendment (removing discrimination against students) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Kitching, Sen Kimberley
        • Griff, Sen Stirling
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Fawcett, Sen David
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • division
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • division
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • division
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Rice, Sen Janet
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Patrick, Sen Rex
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions to the president
    • use of props
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • morrison government (Urquhart, Sen Anne)
    • national security (McGrath, Sen James)
    • federal election (Cameron, Sen Doug)
    • national security (Smith, Sen Dean)
    • climate change (Waters, Sen Larissa)
    • morrison government (McAllister, Sen Jenny)
    • trade (Hanson, Sen Pauline)
    • mining industry (Macdonald, Sen Ian)
    • morrison government (Keneally, Sen Kristina)
    • g20 leaders summit (Duniam, Sen Jonathon)
    • international day of people with disability (Steele-John, Sen Jordon)
    • members of parliament: conduct (Farrell, Sen Don)
    • rural and regional health services (Williams, Sen John)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • morrison government, federal election
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Stoker, Sen Amanda
      • Sterle, Sen Glenn
      • Williams, Sen John
      • Smith, Sen David
      • Hanson, Sen Pauline
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
  •   notices
    • presentation
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • presentation
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • reporting date
  •   bills
    • social security commission bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Storer, Sen Timothy
      • second reading
        • Storer, Sen Timothy
  •   motions
    • international day of people with disability
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • Steele-John, Sen Jordon
    • veterans
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
    • west papua
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • nuclear weapons
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
    • international day for the abolition of slavery
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • farmers' and landholders' rights
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • division
    • greyhound racing
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
      • division
    • gender and sexual orientation
      • Rice, Sen Janet
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • division
    • shark mitigation
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • division
    • fishing industry
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
  •   documents
    • centrelink
      • order for the production of documents
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • division
  •   motions
    • mcinnes, mr gavin
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • political donations
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • division
  •   matters of public importance
    • education
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
      • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
      • Brockman, Sen Slade
      • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
      • Polley, Sen Helen
      • Smith, Sen Dean
      • Hanson, Sen Pauline
  •   auditor-general's reports
    • report no. 13 of 2018-19
      • consideration
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   documents
    • religious freedom review
      • consideration
        • Rice, Sen Janet
  •   documents
    • consideration
    • tourism australia
      • order for the production of documents
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
  •   bills
    • federal circuit and family court of australia bill 2018, federal circuit and family court of australia (consequential amendments and transitional provisions) bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
      • second reading
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
    • treasury laws amendment (strengthening corporate and financial sector penalties) bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
      • second reading
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
    • modern slavery bill 2018
      • returned from the house of representatives
    • aviation transport security amendment bill 2018, excise tariff amendment (collecting tobacco duties at manufacture) bill 2018, maritime legislation amendment bill 2018, national housing finance and investment corporation amendment bill 2018, shipping registration amendment bill 2018, treasury laws amendment (black economy taskforce measures no. 2) bill 2018, treasury laws amendment (financial sector regulation) bill 2018, treasury laws amendment (making sure every state and territory gets their fair share of gst) bill 2018, aboriginal and torres strait islander amendment (indigenous land corporation) bill 2018, 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, electoral legislation amendment (electoral funding and disclosure reform) bill 2018
      • assent
  •   committees
    • select committee on red tape
      • report
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
    • joint standing committee on foreign affairs, defence and trade
      • report
        • McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri
        • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
        • Moore, Sen Claire
  •   bills
    • social services and other legislation amendment (promoting sustainable welfare) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
        • division
      • in committee
        • Anning, Sen Fraser
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • third reading
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
        • division
    • telecommunications legislation amendment bill 2018
      • in committee
        • Griff, Sen Stirling
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Griff, Sen Stirling
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • division
      • third reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • customs amendment (product specific rule modernisation) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Carr, Sen Kim
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • third reading
        • Brockman, Sen Slade (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • migration amendment (regulation of migration agents) bill 2018, migration agents registration application charge amendment (rates of charge) bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Carr, Sen Kim
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
  •   adjournment
    • Brockman, Sen Slade (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • international day of people with disability
      • Brown, Sen Carol
    • koalas
      • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
  •   documents
    • tabling

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