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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • corporations and financial services committee, economics references committee, joint select committee on northern australia
      • meeting
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   bills
    • fair work amendment bill 2014
      • in committee
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory (The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN)
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • division
        • Day, Sen Bob
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Day, Sen Bob
        • division
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Lazarus, Sen Glenn
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Lazarus, Sen Glenn
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • division
      • third reading
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • division
    • social security legislation amendment (debit card trial) bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Moore, Sen Claire
  •   ministerial arrangements
    • Brandis, Sen George
  •   shadow ministerial arrangements
    • Wong, Sen Penny
  •   questions without notice
    • murray-darling basin (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • national security (Bushby, Sen David)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • employment (O'Neill, Sen Deb)
    • telecommunications data retention (Ludlam, Sen Scott)
    • trans-pacific partnership agreement (Fawcett, Sen David)
    • budget (Moore, Sen Claire)
    • trans-pacific partnership agreement (Back, Sen Chris)
    • china (Lambie, Sen Jacqui)
    • workplace relations (Bullock, Sen Joseph)
    • trade (Smith, Sen Dean)
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • telecommunications data retention
      • Brandis, Sen George
    • employment
      • Cash, Sen Michaelia
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • employment
      • Lines, Sen Susan
      • Williams, Sen John
      • Bullock, Sen Joseph
      • Seselja, Sen Zed
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • china
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
  •   petitions
    • marriage
    • debit card trial
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • Williams, Sen John
      • Williams, Sen John
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   committees
    • education and employment references committee, environment and communications references committee, legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • reporting date
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   motions
    • international day of the girl child
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • national carers week 2015
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • royal queensland bush children's health scheme
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • national rugby league
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • national rugby league
      • Lazarus, Sen Glenn
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Lazarus, Sen Glenn
  •   bills
    • commonwealth grants commission amendment (gst distribution) bill 2015
      • first reading
        • Wang, Sen Zhenya
      • second reading
        • Wang, Sen Zhenya
  •   motions
    • united nations summit 2015
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
    • ride sharing services
      • Lazarus, Sen Glenn
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
    • nous group
      • Carr, Sen Kim
    • suspension of standing orders
      • Carr, Sen Kim
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
      • division
    • trans-pacific partnership agreement
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • division
    • east west link
      • Rice, Sen Janet
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • division
    • live animal exports
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
      • division
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • consideration
    • economics legislation committee
      • additional information
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • parliamentary joint committee on human rights
      • report
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • regulations and ordinances committee
      • delegated legislation monitor
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • rural and regional affairs and transport legislation committee
      • report
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
        • Rice, Sen Janet
  •   bills
    • landholders' right to refuse (gas and coal) bill 2015
      • report of legislation committee
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
  •   committees
    • environment and communications legislation committee, legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • membership
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
  •   bills
    • australian immunisation register bill 2015, australian immunisation register (consequential and transitional provisions) bill 2015
      • first reading
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
      • second reading
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
  •   committees
    • joint select committee on trade and investment growth
      • appointment
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
  •   bills
    • social security legislation amendment (debit card trial) bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   first speech
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • Simms, Sen Robert
  •   bills
    • social security legislation amendment (debit card trial) bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
        • Ludwig, Sen Joe
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Williams, Sen John
        • Gallacher, Sen Alex
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
  •   adjournment
    • parkinson's disease
      • Brown, Sen Carol
    • motorcycle helmets
      • Muir, Sen Ricky
    • turnbull government, aged care
      • Polley, Sen Helen
    • workplace relations
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • sustainable development goals
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
    • national day of unity
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
    • sport
      • Peris, Sen Nova
    • australian greens
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • assisted suicide
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
    • environment
      • Rice, Sen Janet
    • timor-leste
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
    • parliamentary delegation to indonesia
      • Back, Sen Chris
    • trans-pacific partnership agreement
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
    • road infrastructure, forestry
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
    • international day of the girl child
      • Moore, Sen Claire
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling
    • tabling

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