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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   privilege
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   ministerial statements
    • australian broadcasting corporation
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • Storer, Sen Timothy
  •   motions
    • gender and sexual orientation
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Farrell, Sen Don
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
      • Patrick, Sen Rex
      • Storer, Sen Timothy
      • Rice, Sen Janet
      • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
      • division
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   bills
    • criminal code and other legislation amendment (removing commonwealth restrictions on cannabis) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Farrell, Sen Don
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
    • customs amendment (comprehensive and progressive agreement for trans-pacific partnership implementation) bill 2018, customs tariff amendment (comprehensive and progressive agreement for trans-pacific partnership implementation) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Carr, Sen Kim
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Brockman, Sen Slade
        • Anning, Sen Fraser
        • Stoker, Sen Amanda
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   questions without notice
    • australian broadcasting corporation (Wong, Sen Penny)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • small business (Brockman, Sen Slade)
    • religious freedom review (Pratt, Sen Louise)
    • trade (Molan, Sen Jim)
    • climate change (Di Natale, Sen Richard)
    • wentworth by-election (Cameron, Sen Doug)
    • police grants (Georgiou, Sen Peter)
    • telecommunications (Smith, Sen Dean)
    • great barrier reef foundation (Keneally, Sen Kristina)
    • death penalty (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • asylum seekers (McKim, Sen Nicholas)
    • goods and services tax (Brown, Sen Carol)
  •   documents
    • religious freedom review expert panel
      • order for the production of documents
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • division
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • australian broadcasting corporation
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
      • Seselja, Sen Zed
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • Williams, Sen John
      • Keneally, Sen Kristina
    • asylum seekers
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
  •   condolences
    • cunningham, mr barry thomas
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   notices
    • presentation
      • Wong, Sen Penny
    • presentation
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • reporting date
  •   motions
    • invictus games
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • international pregnancy and infant loss remembrance day
      • Keneally, Sen Kristina
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • Griff, Sen Stirling
  •   bills
    • a fair go for australians in trade bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • second reading
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • Bushby, Sen David
  •   documents
    • royal commission into aboriginal deaths in custody
      • order for the production of documents
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   motions
    • palestinian liberation organization
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • racism
      • Hanson, Sen Pauline
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • Anning, Sen Fraser
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • division
    • adani mining
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • division
    • racism
      • Williams, Sen John
    • genetically modified organisms
      • Rice, Sen Janet
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
  •   matters of public importance
    • trade (DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The)
  •   documents
    • aged care complaints commissioner
      • consideration
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • joint standing committee on electoral matters
      • report
        • McGrath, Sen James
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
  •   bills
    • telecommunications legislation amendment bill 2018
      • explanatory memorandum
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • minister for home affairs
      • Cash, Sen Michaelia
  •   committees
    • electoral matters committee, privileges committee
      • membership
        • Sterle, Sen Glenn (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
  •   bills
    • treasury laws amendment (tax integrity and other measures) bill 2018
      • returned from the house of representatives
  •   committees
    • royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse
      • membership
    • corporations and financial services committee
      • reporting date
  •   bills
    • criminal code amendment (food contamination) bill 2018, a new tax system (medicare levy surcharge—fringe benefits) amendment (excess levels for private health insurance policies) bill 2018, medicare levy amendment (excess levels for private health insurance policies) bill 2018, private health insurance legislation amendment bill 2018, aged care (single quality framework) reform bill 2018, health insurance (approved pathology specimen collection centres) tax amendment bill 2018, therapeutic goods amendment (2018 measures no. 1) bill 2018, australian institute of health and welfare amendment bill 2018, corporations amendment (crowd-sourced funding for proprietary companies) bill 2017, airports amendment bill 2018, imported food control amendment bill 2017, treasury laws amendment (accelerated depreciation for small business entities) bill 2018, social services legislation amendment (cashless debit card trial expansion) bill 2018, social services legislation amendment (student reform) bill 2018, customs amendment (pacific agreement on closer economic relations plus implementation) bill 2018, customs tariff amendment (incorporation of proposals) bill 2018, veterans' entitlements amendment bill 2018, education and other legislation amendment (vet student loan debt separation) bill 2018, student loans (overseas debtors repayment levy) amendment bill 2018, bankruptcy amendment (debt agreement reform) bill 2018, excise levies legislation amendment (honey) bill 2016, tobacco plain packaging amendment bill 2018, treasury laws amendment (black economy taskforce measures no. 1) bill 2018, treasury laws amendment (enhancing asic's capabilities) bill 2018, treasury laws amendment (supporting australian farmers) bill 2018, treasury laws amendment (tax integrity and other measures) bill 2018, treasury laws amendment (working holiday maker employer register) bill 2017, unexplained wealth legislation amendment bill 2018
      • assent
    • customs amendment (comprehensive and progressive agreement for trans-pacific partnership implementation) bill 2018, customs tariff amendment (comprehensive and progressive agreement for trans-pacific partnership implementation) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Storer, Sen Timothy
        • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Griff, Sen Stirling
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
        • Georgiou, Sen Peter
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Kitching, Sen Kimberley
        • Reynolds, Sen Linda
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
      • in committee
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Farrell, Sen Don
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
  •   adjournment
    • Kitching, Sen Kimberley (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • domestic and family violence
      • Hume, Sen Jane
    • golf
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
    • warragamba dam
      • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • report

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