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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   documents
    • taxation
      • order for the production of documents
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
  •   bills
    • treasury laws amendment (enhancing whistleblower protections) bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
      • in committee
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • third reading
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Seselja, Sen Zed
    • rearrangement
      • Seselja, Sen Zed
  •   bills
    • fair work amendment (family and domestic violence leave) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
      • third reading
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
    • social services legislation amendment (drug testing trial) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • Williams, Sen John
    • presentation
  •   committees
    • selection of bills committee
      • report
        • Williams, Sen John
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • Bushby, Sen David
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   motions
    • parliamentary privilege
      • Wong, Sen Penny
    • indigenous governance awards
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • women in sport, surfing
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   bills
    • electoral legislation amendment (electoral funding and disclosure reform) bill 2018
      • reference to committee
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
  •   motions
    • marriage
      • Rice, Sen Janet
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • Rice, Sen Janet
    • universal declaration of human rights
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • halls island
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • division
  •   documents
    • south australia: drug and alcohol treatment
      • order for the production of documents
        • Griff, Sen Stirling
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   motions
    • china
      • Griff, Sen Stirling
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   bills
    • home affairs legislation amendment (miscellaneous measures) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
        • Storer, Sen Timothy
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Abetz, Sen Eric
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • division
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
        • Hinch, Sen Derryn
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • division
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   bills
    • home affairs legislation amendment (miscellaneous measures) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Carr, Sen Kim
        • Burston, Sen Brian
      • third reading
        • division
    • telecommunications and other legislation amendment (assistance and access) bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • second reading
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Steele-John, Sen Jordon
        • Molan, Sen Jim
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Burston, Sen Brian
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
      • third reading
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • division
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • division
  •   committees
    • membership
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Reynolds, Sen Linda
  •   adjournment
    • Reynolds, Sen Linda
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Reynolds, Sen Linda
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   documents
    • tabling

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