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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   statement by the president
    • photography of the senate
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • minerals resource rent tax repeal and other measures bill 2013 [no. 2]
      • second reading
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
        • Smith, Sen Dean
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Lazarus, Sen Glenn
        • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
  •   ministerial arrangements
    • Abetz, Sen Eric
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • indigenous legal services (Peris, Sen Nova)
    • budget (Bernardi, Sen Cory)
    • employment (Carr, Sen Kim)
    • financial services (Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter)
    • asylum seekers (Reynolds, Sen Linda)
    • budget (Ludlam, Sen Scott)
    • rural and regional health services (McKenzie, Sen Bridget)
    • goods and services tax (Wang, Sen Zhenya)
    • financial services (Bullock, Sen Joesph)
    • higher education (Ruston, Sen Anne)
    • workplace relations (Cameron, Sen Doug)
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • indigenous legal services
      • Peris, Sen Nova
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • Ludwig, Sen Joe
      • Edwards, Sen Sean
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • workplace relations
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
  •   petitions
    • farm debt crisis
    • repeal the carbon tax
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • postponement
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
  •   committees
    • education and employment references committee
      • reporting date
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • procedure committee
      • report
        • Marshall, Sen Gavin
        • Faulkner, Sen John
  •   committees
    • finance and public administration legislation committee
      • meeting
        • Bushby, Sen David
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade joint committee
      • reporting date
    • economics legislation committee
      • reporting date
    • scrutiny of bills committee
      • report
        • Polley, Sen Helen
  •   notices
    • postponement
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
  •   motions
    • affordable housing
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • division
    • australian renewable energy agency
      • Milne, Sen Christine
  •   documents
    • air warfare destroyer
      • order for the production of documents
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • division
  •   ministerial statements
    • australian national action plan on women, peace and security
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   documents
    • order for the production of documents
      • tabling
        • Payne, Sen Marise
  •   committees
    • treaties committee
      • report
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • human rights committee
      • report
        • Smith, Sen Dean
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • membership
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Payne, Sen Marise
    • electoral matters committee
      • membership
  •   regulations and determinations
    • corporations amendment (streamlining future of financial advice) regulation 2014
      • disallowance
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • division
  •   first speech
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • Reynolds, Sen Linda
  •   bills
    • minerals resource rent tax repeal and other measures bill 2013 [no. 2]
      • second reading
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Wright, Sen Penny
    • clean energy legislation (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, true-up shortfall levy (general) (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, true-up shortfall levy (excise) (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, customs tariff amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, excise tariff amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas (import levy) amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas (manufacture levy) amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas (import levy) (transitional provisions) bill 2014
      • consideration of house of representatives message
      • first reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   business
    • days and hours of meeting
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • Milne, Sen Christine
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • division
  •   bills
    • clean energy legislation (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, true-up shortfall levy (general) (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, true-up shortfall levy (excise) (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, customs tariff amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, excise tariff amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas (import levy) amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas (manufacture levy) amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas (import levy) (transitional provisions) bill 2014
      • second reading
        • Singh, Sen Lisa
        • Singh, Sen Lisa
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Lazarus, Sen Glenn
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Abetz, Sen Eric
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
      • in committee
        • Singh, Sen Lisa
  •   adjournment
    • inverell saints afl club
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
      • Williams, Sen John
    • western australia: shark cull
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • civil rights act
      • Faulkner, Sen John
    • budget
      • Wright, Sen Penny
    • underwood, his excellency the hon. peter george, ac
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • global fund
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
    • veterans' affairs
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
    • abbott government
      • Madigan, Sen John
    • new south wales: south sudanese community
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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