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  • start of business
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Lundy, Sen Kate
      • division
  •   motions
    • instrument of designation of the republic of nauru as a regional processing country
      • Lundy, Sen Kate
      • Cash, Sen Michaelia
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Milne, Sen Christine
  •   questions without notice
    • asylum seekers (Cash, Sen Michaelia)
    • fisheries (Thorp, Sen Lin)
    • carbon pricing (Cormann, Sen Mathias)
    • pensions and benefits (Siewert, Sen Rachel)
    • emissions trading scheme (Joyce, Sen Barnaby)
    • broadband (Gallacher, Sen Alex)
    • economy (Humphries, Sen Gary)
    • asylum seekers (Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah)
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • resources and energy
      • Evans, Sen Christopher
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • asylum seekers
      • Cash, Sen Michaelia
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • Feeney, Sen David
      • Sinodinos, Sen Arthur
    • pensions and benefits
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   committees
    • legal and constitutional affairs legislation committee
      • meeting
        • Brown, Sen Carol
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
    • rearrangement
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
  •   committees
    • cyber-safety committee
      • meeting
        • Brown, Sen Carol
    • public accounts and audit committee
      • meeting
        • Brown, Sen Carol
    • public accounts and audit committee
      • meeting
        • Brown, Sen Carol
    • environment and communications legislation committee, environment and communications references committee
      • meeting
        • Brown, Sen Carol
  •   bills
    • privacy amendment (enhancing privacy protection) bill 2012
      • allotment of time
        • Brown, Sen Carol
  •   committees
    • australian commission for law enforcement integrity committee
      • meeting
        • Brown, Sen Carol
    • treaties committee
      • meeting
        • Brown, Sen Carol
    • community affairs legislation committee
      • meeting
        • Brown, Sen Carol
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade joint committee
      • meeting
        • Brown, Sen Carol
    • law enforcement committee
      • meeting
        • Brown, Sen Carol
    • community affairs references committee
      • reporting date
        • Brown, Sen Carol
    • community affairs references committee
      • meeting
        • Brown, Sen Carol
    • gambling reform committee
      • meeting
        • Brown, Sen Carol
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   motions
    • minerals resource rent tax
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
    • paralympic games
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
    • cubbie station
      • Kroger, Sen Helen
      • Milne, Sen Christine
      • division
  •   documents
    • minerals resource rent tax
      • order for the production of documents
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Marshall, Sen Gavin (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
    • defence white paper
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • division
      • Johnston, Sen David
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
    • great barrier reef
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • division
    • super trawlers
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • division
    • cubbie station
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • division
  •   bills
    • migration amendment (health care for asylum seekers) bill 2012
      • first reading
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
    • second reading
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
  •   committees
    • education, employment and workplace relations references committee
      • reference
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • division
  •   matters of public importance
    • carbon pricing
      • Marshall, Sen Gavin (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Faulkner, Sen John
      • Joyce, Sen Barnaby
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • Bushby, Sen David
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
  •   committees
    • treaties committee
      • report
        • Bushby, Sen David
  •   delegation reports
    • delegation to the people's republic of china
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
  •   committees
    • environment and communications references committee, rural and regional affairs and transport references committee
      • membership
        • Feeney, Sen David
  •   bills
    • criminal code amendment (cluster munitions prohibition) bill 2010, tax laws amendment (cross-border transfer pricing) bill (no. 1) 2012, aviation transport security amendment (screening) bill 2012, superannuation legislation amendment (trustee obligations and prudential standards) bill 2012
      • assent
  •   motions
    • instrument of designation of the republic of nauru as a regional processing country
      • Milne, Sen Christine
      • Humphries, Sen Gary
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Bushby, Sen David
  •   documents
    • department of agriculture, fisheries and forestry
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   adjournment
    • grandparents
      • Thorp, Sen Lin
    • breast cancer
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • kovacs, mr akos
      • Eggleston, Sen Alan
    • burma
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
    • environment
      • Madigan, Sen John
    • defence procurement
      • Fawcett, Sen David
    • education
      • Wright, Sen Penny
    • living in between: diversity education through storytelling project
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • r u ok? day
      • Humphries, Sen Gary
    • london paralympic games
      • Faulkner, Sen John
    • perks, ms carol
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • world suicide prevention day
      • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling
    • indexed lists of files
      • tabling
  •   questions on notice
    • global extractive industries transparency initiative (question no. 1997) (Wright, Sen Penny)
    • immigration and citizenship (question no. 2017) (Cash, Sen Michaelia)
    • defence: trapwire surveillance system (question no. 2021) (Ludlam, Sen Scott)

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