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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • education and employment references committee
      • meeting
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • treasury laws amendment (enterprise tax plan no. 2) bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Georgiou, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • division
      • in committee
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Hinch, Sen Derryn
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Watt, Sen Murray
        • Paterson, Sen James
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Storer, Sen Timothy
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
  •   shadow ministerial arrangements
    • Wong, Sen Penny
  •   questions without notice
    • liberal party leadership (McAllister, Sen Jenny)
    • manufacturing (Paterson, Sen James)
    • liberal party leadership (Gallacher, Sen Alex)
    • climate change (Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah)
    • defence equipment (Fawcett, Sen David)
    • liberal party leadership (Sterle, Sen Glenn)
    • pensions and benefits (Brockman, Sen Slade)
    • royal commission into misconduct in the banking, superannuation and financial services industry (Anning, Sen Fraser)
    • liberal party leadership (O'Neill, Sen Deb)
    • national security (Molan, Sen Jim)
    • liberal party leadership (McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri)
    • pensions and benefits (Stoker, Sen Amanda)
    • liberal party leadership (Marshall, Sen Gavin)
    • broadband (Smith, Sen Dean)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • liberal party leadership
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Watt, Sen Murray
      • Colbeck, Sen Richard
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
    • climate change
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • Patrick, Sen Rex
    • presentation
  •   committees
    • community affairs legislation committee
      • reporting date
    • community affairs references committee
      • reference
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • legal and constitutional affairs legislation committee
      • reference
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   documents
    • great barrier reef foundation
      • order for the production of documents
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   motions
    • love your body week
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • world humanitarian day
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • australian bravery decorations
      • Williams, Sen John
    • lyons, dame enid muriel, ad, gbe, tangney, dame dorothy margaret, dbe
      • Hume, Sen Jane
    • energy
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • india: floods
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • global citizen
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • annan, mr kofi, myanmar
      • Griff, Sen Stirling
  •   documents
    • commonwealth environmental water holder
      • order for the production of documents
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
    • department of human services
      • order for the production of documents
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • McGrath, Sen James
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • division
  •   motions
    • indigenous affairs
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • energy
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
    • sustainable traditional hunting practices
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • australian greens
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
  •   matters of public importance
    • turnbull government
      • Marshall, Sen Gavin (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Brown, Sen Carol
      • Colbeck, Sen Richard
      • Bartlett, Sen Andrew
      • Polley, Sen Helen
      • Paterson, Sen James
      • McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri
      • Brockman, Sen Slade
  •   delegation reports
    • inter-parliamentary union: 138th assembly
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
  •   petitions
    • live animal exports
      • Bartlett, Sen Andrew
  •   first speech
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • public works committee
      • report
        • Williams, Sen John
    • economics references committee
      • government response to report
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
  •   documents
    • great barrier reef foundation
      • order for the production of documents
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
  •   committees
    • education and employment legislation committee, education and employment references committee
      • membership
        • Sterle, Sen Glenn (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
  •   bills
    • space activities amendment (launches and returns) bill 2018, treasury laws amendment (financial sector regulation) bill 2018, unexplained wealth legislation amendment bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
      • second reading
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
    • broadcasting legislation amendment (foreign media ownership and community radio) bill 2017
      • consideration of house of representatives message
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   ministerial statements
    • lyons, dame enid muriel, ad, gbe
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Bushby, Sen David
      • Hume, Sen Jane
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • Colbeck, Sen Richard
  •   committees
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade joint committee
      • membership
  •   bills
    • treasury laws amendment (enterprise tax plan no. 2) bill 2017
      • in committee
        • CHAIR, The
        • Brockman, Sen Slade
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
  •   adjournment
    • TEMPORARY CHAIR, The
    • live animal exports, glyphosate
      • Brockman, Sen Slade
    • australia palestine advocacy network, middle east
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • economy
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • royal commission into misconduct in the banking, superannuation and financial services industry
      • Williams, Sen John
    • vietnam veterans day
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher
    • palmer, mr clive
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
    • frusher, mr douglas boyd
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
    • aged care
      • Polley, Sen Helen
    • goods and services tax: sanitary products
      • Rice, Sen Janet
    • cambodia: general election, uygur people
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
    • rohingya people
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • tangney, dame dorothy margaret, dbe
      • Pratt, Sen Louise
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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