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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   bills
    • national vocational education and training regulator amendment bill 2011
      • first reading
        • Ludwig, Sen Joe
      • second reading
        • Ludwig, Sen Joe
    • family assistance legislation amendment (child care budget measures) bill 2010
      • in committee
        • Parry, Sen Stephen
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Parry, Sen Stephen
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Boswell, Sen Ronald
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Boswell, Sen Ronald
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • division
        • division
      • third reading
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
    • telecommunications legislation amendment (fibre deployment) bill 2011
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • Joyce, Sen Barnaby
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Humphries, Sen Gary
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
  •   matters of public interest
    • migration
      • Bishop, Sen Mark
    • member for dobell
      • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
    • northern territory emergency response
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • building the education revolution program
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • east africa famine
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
    • livestock slaughter
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
  •   questions without notice
    • member for dobell (Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta)
    • mining (Urquhart, Sen Anne)
    • carbon pricing (Mason, Sen Brett)
    • hicks, mr david (Wright, Sen Penny)
    • carbon pricing (Birmingham, Sen Simon)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • Hogg, Sen John
  •   questions without notice
    • manufacturing (Cameron, Sen Doug)
      • Carr, Sen Kim
    • automotive industry (Fawcett, Sen David)
    • apple imports (Xenophon, Sen Nick)
    • carbon pricing (Nash, Sen Fiona)
    • trade (Furner, Sen Mark)
      • Evans, Sen Christopher
  •   petitions
    • marriage
      • Boswell, Sen Ronald
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • carbon pricing
      • Joyce, Sen Barnaby
      • Lundy, Sen Kate
      • Mason, Sen Brett
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • hicks, mr david
      • Wright, Sen Penny
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Feeney, Sen David
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   bills
    • landholders' right to refuse (coal seam gas) bill 2011
      • first reading
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • second reading
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
  •   committees
    • environment and communications references committee
      • reporting date
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
    • scrutiny of bills committee
      • report
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • community affairs legislation committee
      • report
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • law enforcement committee
      • report
        • Mason, Sen Brett
        • Polley, Sen Helen
  •   ministerial statements
    • australian national audit office
      • Carr, Sen Kim
    • manufacturing
      • Carr, Sen Kim
      • Carr, Sen Kim
      • Colbeck, Sen Richard
  •   documents
    • unproclaimed legislation
      • tabling
  •   committees
    • education, employment and workplace relations legislation committee
      • membership
        • Carr, Sen Kim
  •   bills
    • carbon credits (carbon farming initiative) bill 2011, australian national registry of emissions units bill 2011, tax laws amendment (research and development) bill 2010
      • consideration of house of representatives message
    • excise tariff amendment (condensate) bill 2011, excise legislation amendment (condensate) bill 2011
      • first reading
        • Carr, Sen Kim
      • second reading
        • Carr, Sen Kim
    • cybercrime legislation amendment bill 2011, schools assistance amendment bill 2011
      • first reading
        • Carr, Sen Kim
      • second reading
        • Carr, Sen Kim
    • income tax rates amendment (research and development) bill 2010
      • returned from the house of representatives
      • third reading
        • Carr, Sen Kim
  •   committees
    • community affairs legislation committee, economics legislation committee, education, employment and workplace relations legislation committee, environment and communications legislation committee, foreign affairs, defence and trade legislation committee, legal and constitutional affairs legislation committee, rural affairs and transport legislation committee
      • report
        • Brown, Sen Carol
  •   bills
    • telecommunications legislation amendment (fibre deployment) bill 2011
      • second reading
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Mason, Sen Brett
  •   first speech
    • Hogg, Sen John
    • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   bills
    • telecommunications legislation amendment (fibre deployment) bill 2011
      • second reading
        • Conroy, Sen Stephen
      • in committee
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Ronaldson, Sen Michael
        • procedural text
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Conroy, Sen Stephen
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Conroy, Sen Stephen
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Conroy, Sen Stephen
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Conroy, Sen Stephen
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Conroy, Sen Stephen
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
        • Conroy, Sen Stephen
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
  •   adjournment
    • Hogg, Sen John
    • neil, mr walter rex
      • Brown, Sen Carol
    • freedom of speech
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
    • apple imports
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
    • trachoma
      • Faulkner, Sen John
  •   questions on notice
    • banking (question no. 74) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • banking (question no. 77) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • status of women: stationery (question no. 254) (Humphries, Sen Gary)
    • social housing and homelessness: stationery (question no. 257) (Humphries, Sen Gary)
    • defence: hospitality (question nos 491 to 493) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • minerals resource rent tax (question no. 601) (Cormann, Sen Mathias)
    • attorney-general: justice reinvestment (question no. 691) (Ludlam, Sen Scott)
    • burrup peninsula (question no. 692) (Ludlam, Sen Scott)
    • australian broadcasting corporation (question no. 693) (Ludlam, Sen Scott)
    • defence: staffing (question no. 709) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • defence: staffing (question no. 710) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • defence: staffing (question no. 711) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • horizontal waterfalls (question no. 715) (Ludlam, Sen Scott)
    • national rental affordability scheme (question no. 717) (Ludlam, Sen Scott)
    • united nations framework convention on climate change (question no. 729) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • defence: strategic reform program (question no. 741) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • defence: submarines (question no. 753) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • defence: budget audit review (question no. 795) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • defence: budget audit review (question no. 814) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • defence: budget audit review (question no. 815) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • defence: budget audit review (question no. 816) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • defence: budget audit review (question no. 817) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • defence: budget audit review (question no. 818) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • defence: budget audit review (question no. 819) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • defence: budget audit review (question no. 820) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • defence: budget audit review (question no. 821) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • defence: budget audit review (question no. 824) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • defence: budget audit review (question no. 825) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • defence: budget audit review (question no. 826) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • defence: budget audit review (question no. 827) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • defence: budget audit review (question no. 828) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • defence: budget audit review (question no. 829) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • defence: budget audit review (question no. 830) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • defence: budget audit review (question no. 831) (Johnston, Sen David)
    • resources and energy (question no. 842) (Ludlam, Sen Scott)
    • prime minister and cabinet: media staffing (question no. 845) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • families, housing, community services and indigenous affairs: departmental reports (question no. 848) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • government departments: staffing (question nos 849 to 890) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • tertiary education, skills, jobs and workplace relations: penalty rates (question no. 895) (Abetz, Sen Eric)

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