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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   bills
    • higher education support amendment (new zealand citizens) bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Carr, Sen Kim
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • fair work amendment (penalty rates exemption for small businesses) bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Williams, Sen John
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
  •   petitions
    • healthy kids check
    • marriage
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • withdrawal
      • Williams, Sen John
  •   committees
    • selection of bills committee
      • report
        • Bushby, Sen David
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   motions
    • domestic and family violence: housing affordability
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • yellow crazy ants
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   documents
    • nbn co
      • order for the production of documents
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
        • division
  •   motions
    • yellow crazy ants
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
    • sport: women's cricket
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • national bilby day
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   bills
    • environment protection and biodiversity conservation amendment (prohibition of live imports of primates for research) bill 2015
      • first reading
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • second reading
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
    • fair work amendment (gender pay gap) bill 2015
      • first reading
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • second reading
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
  •   documents
    • coalition agreement
      • order for the production of documents
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • division
  •   motions
    • defence procurement
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • Conroy, Sen Stephen
      • Edwards, Sen Sean
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • division
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
    • illicit drugs
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
  •   documents
    • department of veterans' affairs
      • order for the production of documents
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   committees
    • select committee on health
      • membership
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   bills
    • foreign acquisitions and takeovers legislation amendment bill 2015, foreign acquisitions and takeovers fees imposition bill 2015, register of foreign ownership of agricultural land bill 2015
      • first reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • broadcasting legislation amendment (primary television broadcasting service) bill 2015, social services legislation amendment (no. 2) bill 2015, banking laws amendment (unclaimed money) bill 2015, tax and superannuation laws amendment (2015 measures no. 2) bill 2015
      • assent
  •   documents
    • department of infrastructure and regional development
      • order for the production of documents
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
  •   bills
    • fair work amendment bill 2014
      • second reading
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
        • Sterle, Sen Glenn
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
  •   questions without notice
    • turnbull government (Carr, Sen Kim)
    • taxation (Bushby, Sen David)
    • prime minister (Lines, Sen Susan)
    • trade with china (Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter)
    • medicare (Cameron, Sen Doug)
    • steel industry (Madigan, Sen John)
    • trade with china (Reynolds, Sen Linda)
    • indigenous communities (Siewert, Sen Rachel)
    • fair work commission (Conroy, Sen Stephen)
    • trade with china (Bernardi, Sen Cory)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • answers to questions
      • Conroy, Sen Stephen
      • Seselja, Sen Zed
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • trade with china
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   committees
    • finance and public administration legislation committee
      • report
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
    • select committee on the regional processing centre in nauru
      • additional information
        • Gallacher, Sen Alex
    • publications committee
      • report
        • Reynolds, Sen Linda
    • regulations and ordinances committee
      • delegated legislation monitor
        • Williams, Sen John
    • select committee on health
      • report
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
  •   committees
    • additional information
      • Fawcett, Sen David
  •   bills
    • international aid (promoting gender equality) bill 2015
      • report of legislation committee
        • Fawcett, Sen David
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   committees
    • community affairs references committee
      • report
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   documents
    • coalition agreement
      • order for the production of documents
        • Colbeck, Sen Richard
  •   ministerial statements
    • iraq, syria and afghanistan, asylum seekers
      • Colbeck, Sen Richard
      • Conroy, Sen Stephen
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
  •   motions
    • sport: motorsport
      • Muir, Sen Ricky
      • Bushby, Sen David
      • Dastyari, Sen Sam
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   documents
    • centrepay
      • order for the production of documents
        • Ronaldson, Sen Michael
  •   committees
    • select committee on the regional processing centre in nauru
      • report
        • Gallacher, Sen Alex
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Carr, Sen Kim
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • report
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
  •   committees
    • consideration
  •   adjournment
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • national police remembrance day
      • Lindgren, Sen Joanna
    • south australia: regional development
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
    • defence procurement
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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