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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Madigan, Sen John
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   bills
    • health insurance amendment (medicare funding for certain types of abortion) bill 2013
      • second reading
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Bullock, Sen Joesph
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Lines, Sen Susan
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Back, Sen Chris
        • McLucas, Sen Jan
        • Brown, Sen Carol
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   committees
    • selection of bills committee
      • report
        • Bushby, Sen David
        • Wright, Sen Penny
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • consideration
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   committees
    • legal and constitutional affairs legislation committee
      • meeting
        • Bushby, Sen David
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • meeting
        • Wright, Sen Penny
  •   notices
    • postponement
    • withdrawal
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   regulations and determinations
    • migration amendment (repeal of certain visa classes) regulation 2014
      • disallowance
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
  •   bills
    • racial discrimination amendment bill 2014
      • first reading
        • Day, Sen Bob
      • second reading
        • Day, Sen Bob
  •   motions
    • alice springs: dialysis
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • ebola virus
      • Milne, Sen Christine
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   committees
    • economics legislation committee
      • meeting
        • Bushby, Sen David
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade references committee
      • meeting
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • economics references committee
      • meeting
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • senate select committee on health
      • meeting
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   motions
    • climate change
      • Milne, Sen Christine
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • abbot point
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
    • east west link
      • Rice, Sen Janet
      • procedural text
      • division
  •   bills
    • national water commission (abolition) bill 2014
      • first reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Moore, Sen Claire
  •   bills
    • migration amendment (humanitarian visa intake) bill 2014
      • first reading
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • second reading
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • Bushby, Sen David
  •   committees
    • education and employment legislation committee, legal and constitutional affairs legislation committee
      • report
        • Bushby, Sen David
  •   bills
    • tax and superannuation laws amendment (2014 measures no. 4) bill 2014
      • first reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • australian citizenship amendment (intercountry adoption) bill 2014, marine safety (domestic commercial vessel) national law amendment bill 2014, migration amendment (protection and other measures) bill 2014
      • first reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • infrastructure australia amendment (cost benefit analysis and other measures) bill 2014, tax and superannuation laws amendment (2014 measures no. 5) bill 2014
      • first reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   committees
    • joint select committee on the australia fund establishment, joint select committee on trade and investment growth
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • national security legislation amendment bill (no. 1) 2014
      • in committee
        • CHAIRMAN, The
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
    • tax and superannuation laws amendment (2014 measures no. 4) bill 2014
      • second reading
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • third reading
        • Smith, Sen Dean
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • national security legislation amendment bill (no. 1) 2014
      • in committee
        • Smith, Sen Dean (The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN)
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • division
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • division
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
  •   questions without notice
    • higher education (Carr, Sen Kim)
    • budget (Edwards, Sen Sean)
    • financial services (Dastyari, Sen Sam)
    • asylum seekers (Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah)
    • defence procurement (Madigan, Sen John)
    • agriculture (Wang, Sen Zhenya)
    • east arnhem (O'Sullivan, Sen Barry)
    • medicinal marijuana (Di Natale, Sen Richard)
    • ukraine (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • higher education (Ruston, Sen Anne)
    • anti-discrimination (Conroy, Sen Stephen)
    • agriculture (McKenzie, Sen Bridget)
    • arts funding (Collins, Sen Jacinta)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • answers to questions
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • Heffernan, Sen Bill
      • Dastyari, Sen Sam
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • Ludwig, Sen Joe
  •   committees
    • public accounts and audit committee
      • government response to report
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
  •   documents
    • responses to senate resolutions
      • tabling
        • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   auditor-general's reports
    • report no. 2 of 2014-15
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • indexed lists of departmental and agency files
      • tabling
  •   committees
    • finance and public administration legislation committee, joint select committee on trade and investment growth
      • membership
        • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
  •   motions
    • national independent commission against corruption
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
  •   committees
    • rural and regional affairs and transport references committee
      • report
        • Back, Sen Chris
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • environment and communications legislation committee
      • report
        • Williams, Sen John
        • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • consideration
  •   auditor-general's reports
    • consideration
  •   bills
    • national security legislation amendment bill (no. 1) 2014
      • in committee
        • CHAIRMAN, The
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • division
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Madigan, Sen John
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Lazarus, Sen Glenn
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • division
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Madigan, Sen John
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Smith, Sen Dean (The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN)
        • division
      • third reading
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • division
  •   adjournment
    • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • australian dairy industry
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
    • recognise campaign
      • Faulkner, Sen John
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • indexed lists of departmental and agency files

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