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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   ministerial arrangements
    • Birmingham, Sen Simon
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • consideration of legislation
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   bills
    • offshore petroleum and greenhouse gas storage amendment (benefit to australia) bill 2020
      • second reading
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Van, Sen David
        • Ayres, Sen Timothy
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Bragg, Sen Andrew J
    • national consumer credit protection amendment (small amount credit contract and consumer lease reforms) bill 2019 (no. 2)
      • second reading
        • Ayres, Sen Timothy
        • Brockman, Sen Slade
        • Gallacher, Sen Alex
        • McDonald, Sen Susan
        • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
    • higher education support amendment (freedom of speech) bill 2020
      • second reading
        • Abetz, Sen Eric
        • Scarr, Sen Paul
        • Stoker, Sen Amanda
        • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
        • O'Sullivan, Sen Matthew
        • Small, Sen Benjamin
        • Rennick, Sen Gerard
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Henderson, Sen Sarah
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   questions without notice
    • march4justice (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • domestic and family violence (Askew, Sen Wendy)
    • covid-19: tourism (Farrell, Sen Don)
    • royal commission into aged care quality and safety (Small, Sen Benjamin)
    • march4justice (Waters, Sen Larissa)
    • covid-19: tourism (Chisholm, Sen Anthony)
    • migration (Roberts, Sen Malcolm)
    • apprenticeships (McMahon, Sen Sam)
    • attorney-general (Gallagher, Sen Katy)
    • queensland: olympic and paralympic games (McGrath, Sen James)
    • members of parliament: staff (Walsh, Sen Jess)
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • western australia: energy
      • Seselja, Sen Zed
  •   answers to questions on notice
    • question nos 2026, 2027, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2045, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2055, 2059, 2065, 2066, 2072, 2077, 2078, 2272, 2357, 2358, 2426, 2427 and 2972
      • Kitching, Sen Kimberley
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • Kitching, Sen Kimberley
    • question nos 2943, 2944, 2945, 2946, 2947, 2948, 2950, 2951, 2952, 2953, 2954, 2955, 2956, 2957, 2958, 2959, 2960, 2961 and 2962
      • Kitching, Sen Kimberley
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • Kitching, Sen Kimberley
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • march4justice, members of parliament: staff, attorney-general
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
      • Scarr, Sen Paul
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Matthew
      • Walsh, Sen Jess
    • march4justice
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • presentation
      • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
  •   condolences
    • somare, grand chief sir michael thomas
      • Payne, Sen Marise
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Seselja, Sen Zed
      • Green, Sen Nita
      • Molan, Sen Jim
      • Scarr, Sen Paul
      • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri
      • Smith, Sen Dean
  •   committees
    • public works committee
      • meeting
        • Smith, Sen Dean
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • environment and communications references committee
      • reporting date
        • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   motions
    • world tuberculosis day
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   documents
    • aboriginal flag committee: government response to report
      • order for the production of documents
        • McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri
        • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
  •   motions
    • domestic and family violence
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
    • victoria: environment
      • Thorpe, Sen Lidia
      • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
      • Brown, Sen Carol
    • tasmania: environment
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • division
    • china: human rights
      • Patrick, Sen Rex
      • division
      • Rice, Sen Janet
      • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
      • Patrick, Sen Rex
      • division
    • world tuberculosis day
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
  •   matters of public importance
    • covid-19: tourism
      • Griff, Sen Stirling (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Farrell, Sen Don
      • McDonald, Sen Susan
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • Polley, Sen Helen
      • Rennick, Sen Gerard
      • Walsh, Sen Jess
      • Henderson, Sen Sarah
      • Brown, Sen Carol
      • McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri
      • Sheldon, Sen Anthony
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • aviation
      • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
  •   bills
    • treasury laws amendment (reuniting more superannuation) bill 2020
      • returned from the house of representatives
      • third reading
        • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
  •   committees
    • road safety joint select committee
      • appointment
        • Sterle, Sen Glenn (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
    • national disability insurance scheme joint committee, public accounts and audit committee, public works committee
      • membership
        • Sterle, Sen Glenn (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Sterle, Sen Glenn
  •   bills
    • aged care legislation amendment (serious incident response scheme and other measures) bill 2020, customs tariff amendment (incorporation of proposals and other measures) bill 2020, export control amendment (miscellaneous measures) bill 2020, federal circuit and family court of australia bill 2019, federal circuit and family court of australia (consequential amendments and transitional provisions) bill 2019, higher education legislation amendment (provider category standards and other measures) bill 2020, national redress scheme for institutional child sexual abuse amendment (technical amendments) bill 2020, agriculture legislation amendment (streamlining administration) bill 2019, vet student payment arrangements (miscellaneous amendments) bill 2020, education services for overseas students amendment (refunds of charges and other measures) bill 2020, financial sector reform (hayne royal commission response no. 2) bill 2020, national collecting institutions legislation amendment bill 2020, treasury laws amendment (news media and digital platforms mandatory bargaining code) bill 2021
      • assent
  •   committees
    • education and employment references committee
      • reference
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • Lines, Sen Susan
        • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
        • Walsh, Sen Jess
        • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
    • covid-19 select committee
      • report
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Polley, Sen Helen
        • Sheldon, Sen Anthony
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • division
  •   documents
    • covid-19 select committee
      • order for the production of documents
  •   committees
    • education and employment references committee
      • reference
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
  •   bills
    • higher education support amendment (freedom of speech) bill 2020
      • second reading
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • in committee
        • Carr, Sen Kim
        • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
        • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Carr, Sen Kim
        • division
        • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
        • Carr, Sen Kim
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • division
        • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
        • Carr, Sen Kim
        • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • division
      • third reading
        • Hume, Sen Jane
    • transport security amendment (serious crime) bill 2020
      • in committee
        • Keneally, Sen Kristina
        • Stoker, Sen Amanda
        • Sterle, Sen Glenn
        • Stoker, Sen Amanda
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Stoker, Sen Amanda
        • Sheldon, Sen Anthony
  •   adjournment
    • Askew, Sen Wendy (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • illicit drugs
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • somare, grand chief sir michael thomas
      • Stoker, Sen Amanda

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