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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • building and construction industry (improving productivity) bill 2013, building and construction industry (consequential and transitional provisions) bill 2013
      • second reading
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Fawcett, Sen David
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Hinch, Sen Derryn
        • Bushby, Sen David
  •   questions without notice
    • murray-darling basin plan (Farrell, Sen Don)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • building and construction industry (Paterson, Sen James)
    • attorney-general (Chisholm, Sen Anthony)
    • minister for immigration and border protection (Di Natale, Sen Richard)
    • economy (Reynolds, Sen Linda)
    • attorney-general (Moore, Sen Claire)
    • employment (O'Sullivan, Sen Barry)
    • australian defence force (Lambie, Sen Jacqui)
    • gun control (Sterle, Sen Glenn)
    • pacific women shaping pacific development (Hume, Sen Jane)
    • imports (Carr, Sen Kim)
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • medicare
      • Brandis, Sen George
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • murray-darling basin plan, attorney-general, gun control
      • Farrell, Sen Don
      • Back, Sen Chris
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • Polley, Sen Helen
    • minister for immigration and border protection
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
    • australian defence force
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • withdrawal
      • Kakoschke-Moore, Sen Skye
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • postponement
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
  •   committees
    • economics references committee
      • reference
        • Kakoschke-Moore, Sen Skye
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   motions
    • skilled migration program
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • public transport
      • Rice, Sen Janet
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Rice, Sen Janet
    • murray-darling basin
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   committees
    • community affairs references committee
      • reference
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Polley, Sen Helen
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   motions
    • united states alliance
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
    • suspension of standing orders
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • Bushby, Sen David
      • division
  •   matters of public importance
    • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • Polley, Sen Helen
    • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • Di Natale, Sen Richard
    • Sterle, Sen Glenn
    • Paterson, Sen James
    • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
    • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
  •   documents
    • consideration
    • australian health practitioner regulation agency and the national boards
      • consideration
        • Williams, Sen John
    • australian human rights commission
      • consideration
        • Paterson, Sen James
        • Brown, Sen Carol
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • department of the prime minister and cabinet
      • consideration
        • Dodson, Sen Patrick
  •   bills
    • migration legislation amendment (regional processing cohort) bill 2016
      • report of legislation committee
        • Fawcett, Sen David
  •   committees
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade joint committee
      • government response to report
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
        • Fawcett, Sen David
        • Back, Sen Chris
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
    • intelligence and security committee
      • report
        • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
      • consideration
  •   committees
    • membership
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   bills
    • customs tariff amendment (expanded information technology agreement implementation and other measures) bill 2016, social services legislation amendment (family assistance alignment and other measures) bill 2016, veterans' affairs legislation amendment (budget and other measures) bill 2016
      • first reading
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • second reading
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • social services legislation amendment (transition mobility allowance to the national disability insurance scheme) bill 2016
      • first reading
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • second reading
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • fair work (registered organisations) amendment bill 2014
      • returned from the house of representatives
    • appropriation bill (no. 1) 2016-2017, appropriation bill (no. 2) 2016-2017, appropriation (parliamentary departments) bill (no. 1) 2016-2017
      • assent
  •   regulations and determinations
    • legal services amendment (solicitor-general opinions) direction 2016
      • disallowance
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • Reynolds, Sen Linda
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
  •   adjournment
    • Gallacher, Sen Alex (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • mulligan, mr ted, oam
      • Williams, Sen John
    • intercultural sports league inc.
      • Brown, Sen Carol
    • transgender day of remembrance
      • Rice, Sen Janet
    • aged care
      • Polley, Sen Helen
    • transvaginal mesh
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
    • larrakia nation aboriginal corporation
      • McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri
    • migration
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
    • central coast: broadband
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
    • malnutrition
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • jammu and kashmir, workplace relations
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
    • australian defence force
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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