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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   parliamentary representation
    • senators sworn
  •   parliamentary office holders
    • president
      • Evans, Sen Christopher
      • Brown, Sen Bob
      • Hogg, Sen John
      • Evans, Sen Christopher
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • Brown, Sen Bob
      • Joyce, Sen Barnaby
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
      • Evans, Sen Christopher
      • Hogg, Sen John
    • deputy president and chairman of committees
      • Evans, Sen Christopher
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • Brown, Sen Bob
      • Brown, Sen Bob
      • Evans, Sen Christopher
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • Brown, Sen Bob
      • Joyce, Sen Barnaby
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
  •   party office holders
    • australian greens
      • Brown, Sen Bob
    • national party
      • Joyce, Sen Barnaby
  •   personal explanations
    • Ludwig, Sen Joe
  •   party office holders
    • liberal party
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Arbib, Sen Mark
  •   bills
    • family assistance and other legislation amendment (child care and other measures) bill 2011
      • second reading
        • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Stephens, Sen Ursula
        • Lundy, Sen Kate
      • in committee
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Lundy, Sen Kate
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Lundy, Sen Kate
      • third reading
        • Ludwig, Sen Joe
  •   party office holders
    • chief opposition whip and deputy opposition whip
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Evans, Sen Christopher
  •   questions without notice
    • live animal exports (Scullion, Sen Nigel)
    • getup! advertisement (Brown, Sen Bob)
    • budget (Bishop, Sen Mark)
    • live animal exports (Back, Sen Chris)
    • forestry (Milne, Sen Christine)
    • broadband (Brown, Sen Carol)
    • carbon pricing (Macdonald, Sen Ian)
    • naidoc week (Crossin, Sen Trish)
    • australia network (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • industrial relations (Marshall, Sen Gavin)
  •   answers to questions on notice
    • question nos 4, 340 and 660
      • Brown, Sen Bob
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • answers to questions
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Crossin, Sen Trish
      • Back, Sen Chris
      • Furner, Sen Mark
      • Fisher, Sen Mary Jo
    • forestry
      • Milne, Sen Christine
  •   notices
    • presentation
      • Ludwig, Sen Joe
    • postponement
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   motions
    • foetal alcohol spectrum disorder
      • Boyce, Sen Sue
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   notices
    • postponement
      • Boswell, Sen Ronald
      • Brown, Sen Bob
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
  •   motions
    • student visas
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • division
  •   matters of public importance
    • carbon pricing
      • Parry, Sen Stephen
      • Joyce, Sen Barnaby
      • Brown, Sen Carol
      • procedural text
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • Pratt, Sen Louise
      • Ronaldson, Sen Michael
      • Furner, Sen Mark
  •   documents
    • tabling
      • Fisher, Sen Mary Jo
  •   committees
    • joint standing committee on foreign affairs, defence and trade, select committee on ministerial discretion in migration matters
      • government response to report
        • Fisher, Sen Mary Jo
    • economics references committee
      • reporting date
        • Williams, Sen John
        • Williams, Sen John
      • consideration
        • Polley, Sen Helen
  •   documents
    • register of senate senior executive officers' interests
      • tabling
        • Fisher, Sen Mary Jo
    • reserve bank of australia
      • tabling
        • Fisher, Sen Mary Jo
  •   committees
    • community affairs references committee
      • additional information
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • senators' interests committee
      • report
        • Williams, Sen John
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • various
      • membership
        • Fisher, Sen Mary Jo
    • electoral matters committee
      • membership
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
  •   bills
    • financial framework legislation amendment bill (no. 1) 2011, higher education support amendment (demand driven funding system and other measures) bill 2011, protection of the sea (prevention of pollution from ships) amendment (oil transfers) bill 2011, statute stocktake bill (no. 1) 2011
      • first reading
        • McLucas, Sen Jan
      • second reading
        • McLucas, Sen Jan
    • remuneration and other legislation amendment bill 2011
      • returned from the house of representatives
    • tax laws amendment (2011 measures no. 2) bill 2011, corporations amendment (improving accountability on director and executive remuneration) bill 2011, tax laws amendment (2011 measures no. 4) bill 2011, tax laws amendment (medicare levy and medicare levy surcharge) bill 2011, international tax agreements amendment bill (no. 1) 2011, acts interpretation amendment bill 2011, midwife professional indemnity legislation amendment bill 2011, social security legislation amendment (job seeker compliance) bill 2011, social security amendment (parenting payment transitional arrangement) bill 2011, families, housing, community services and indigenous affairs and other legislation amendment (election commitments and other measures) bill 2011, tax laws amendment (2011 measures no. 3) bill 2011, family assistance and other legislation amendment bill 2011, families, housing, community services and indigenous affairs and other legislation amendment (further election commitments and other measures) bill 2011, australian transaction reports and analysis centre supervisory cost recovery levy bill 2011, australian transaction reports and analysis centre supervisory cost recovery levy (collection) bill 2011
    • australian transaction reports and analysis centre supervisory cost recovery levy (consequential amendments) bill 2011, comsuper bill 2011, superannuation legislation (consequential amendments and transitional provisions) bill 2011, governance of australian government superannuation schemes bill 2011, combating the financing of people smuggling and other measures bill 2011, tax laws amendment (2010 measures no. 5) bill 2011, tax laws amendment (2011 measures no. 5) bill 2011, customs amendment (export controls and other measures) bill 2011, trans-tasman proceedings amendment and other measures bill 2011, customs tariff amendment (taxation of alternative fuels) bill 2011, energy grants (cleaner fuels) scheme amendment bill 2011, excise tariff amendment (taxation of alternative fuels) bill 2011, taxation of alternative fuels legislation amendment bill 2011, appropriation bill (no. 1) 2011-2012, appropriation bill (no. 2) 2011-2012, appropriation (parliamentary departments) bill (no. 1) 2011-2012, higher education support amendment (no. 1) bill 2011, tertiary education quality and standards agency bill 2011, tertiary education quality and standards agency (consequential amendments and transitional provisions) bill 2011
      • assent
    • national consumer credit protection amendment (home loans and credit cards) bill 2011
      • second reading
        • Ronaldson, Sen Michael
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Sherry, Sen Nick
      • in committee
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Sherry, Sen Nick
        • Ronaldson, Sen Michael
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Ronaldson, Sen Michael
        • Sherry, Sen Nick
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Ronaldson, Sen Michael
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Sherry, Sen Nick
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Madigan, Sen John
        • division
      • third reading
        • Sherry, Sen Nick
    • military justice (interim measures) amendment bill 2011
      • second reading
        • Johnston, Sen David
        • Sherry, Sen Nick
      • third reading
        • Parry, Sen Stephen
    • intelligence services legislation amendment bill 2011
      • second reading
        • Humphries, Sen Gary
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Sherry, Sen Nick
      • in committee
        • Parry, Sen Stephen
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Sherry, Sen Nick
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Feeney, Sen David
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Feeney, Sen David
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Feeney, Sen David
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Feeney, Sen David
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Feeney, Sen David
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Feeney, Sen David
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Feeney, Sen David
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Feeney, Sen David
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Feeney, Sen David
        • procedural text
        • division
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Feeney, Sen David
      • third reading
        • Feeney, Sen David
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
    • migration amendment (strengthening the character test and other provisions) bill 2011
      • second reading
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Feeney, Sen David
      • in committee
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Feeney, Sen David
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Feeney, Sen David
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • division
      • third reading
        • Feeney, Sen David
        • division
    • mutual assistance in criminal matters amendment (registration of foreign proceeds of crime orders) bill 2011
      • second reading
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Lundy, Sen Kate
      • third reading
        • Moore, Sen Claire
  •   adjournment
    • Moore, Sen Claire
    • houston, air chief marshal angus ac, afc
      • Faulkner, Sen John
    • palliative care
      • Boyce, Sen Sue
    • northern territory: health services
      • Crossin, Sen Trish
    • indexation of military pensions
      • Lundy, Sen Kate
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • indexed list of files
  •   questions on notice
    • tertiary education, skills, jobs and workplace relations, school education, early childhood and youth, employment participation and childcare, indigenous employment and economic development, and sport (question nos 270, 282, 295, 297 and 298) (Humphries, Sen Gary)
    • tertiary education, skills, jobs and workplace relations: media monitoring (question no. 394) (Mason, Sen Brett)
    • tertiary education, skills, jobs and workplace relations: websites (question no. 400) (Mason, Sen Brett)
    • tertiary education, skills, jobs and workplace relations: staffing (question no. 613) (Siewert, Sen Rachel)
    • united nations framework convention on climate change (question no. 670) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • climate change (question no. 672) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • ip australia (question no. 676) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • immigration and citizenship (question no. 677) (Cash, Sen Michaelia)

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