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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   questions without notice
    • carbon pricing (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • workplace relations (Furner, Sen Mark)
    • carbon pricing (Birmingham, Sen Simon)
    • mining (Siewert, Sen Rachel)
    • australian securities and investments commission (Cormann, Sen Mathias)
  • distinguished visitors
  •   questions without notice
    • mining (Marshall, Sen Gavin)
    • marine conservation (Boswell, Sen Ronald)
    • trans-pacific partnership (Di Natale, Sen Richard)
    • carbon pricing (Williams, Sen John)
    • cooperative research centres (Urquhart, Sen Anne)
  •   answers to questions on notice
    • question no. 1282
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • Conroy, Sen Stephen
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • asylum seekers
      • Ludwig, Sen Joe
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • carbon pricing
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • Adams, Sen Judith
      • Thistlethwaite, Sen Matt
      • Boswell, Sen Ronald
    • mining
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • postponement
  •   motions
    • julian burton burns trust
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • social inclusion week
      • Wright, Sen Penny
  •   committees
    • migration committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade joint committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • environment and communications legislation committee
      • reporting date
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • national capital and external territories committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • economics references committee
      • reporting date
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   motions
    • international development assistance
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
    • white ribbon day
      • Cash, Sen Michaelia
  •   committees
    • community affairs references committee
      • meeting
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • economics references committee
      • reference
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • division
  •   motions
    • standing orders
      • Brown, Sen Bob
      • division
    • tarkine wilderness
      • Milne, Sen Christine
      • division
    • nuclear weapons
      • Brown, Sen Bob
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • Ludwig, Sen Joe
  •   matters of public importance
    • mining
      • Parry, Sen Stephen
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Thistlethwaite, Sen Matt
      • Eggleston, Sen Alan
      • Sterle, Sen Glenn
      • Colbeck, Sen Richard
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
  •   auditor-general's reports
    • report no. 13 of 2011-12
      • Adams, Sen Judith
      • Colbeck, Sen Richard
  •   committees
    • rural affairs and transport references committee
      • government response to report
        • Feeney, Sen David
  •   parliamentary zone
    • proposal for works
      • Feeney, Sen David
  •   committees
    • treaties committee
      • report
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • intelligence and security committee
      • report
        • Faulkner, Sen John
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade joint committee
      • report
        • Polley, Sen Helen
  •   bills
    • defence trade controls bill 2011, customs amendment (military end-use) bill 2011
      • first reading
        • Feeney, Sen David
      • second reading
        • Feeney, Sen David
  •   committees
    • rural affairs and transport references committee
      • government response to report
        • Heffernan, Sen Bill
  •   bills
    • tax laws amendment (2011 measures no. 8) bill 2011
      • first reading
        • Feeney, Sen David
      • second reading
        • Feeney, Sen David
    • clean energy bill 2011, clean energy (consequential amendments) bill 2011, steel transformation plan bill 2011
      • assent
  •   committees
    • community affairs references committee
      • report
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Boyce, Sen Sue
  •   bills
    • family law legislation amendment (family violence and other measures) bill 2011
      • second reading
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Crossin, Sen Trish
        • Mason, Sen Brett
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Fisher, Sen Mary Jo
        • Humphries, Sen Gary
        • division
        • division
        • division
      • third reading
        • Parry, Sen Stephen
        • division
    • crimes legislation amendment bill (no. 2) 2011, aviation transport security amendment (air cargo) bill 2011, veterans' affairs legislation amendment (participants in british nuclear tests) bill 2011, protection of the sea (prevention of pollution from ships) amendment (oils in the antarctic area) bill 2011
      • Parry, Sen Stephen
      • division
      • Ludwig, Sen Joe
      • division
      • division
      • third reading
        • Parry, Sen Stephen
  •   adjournment
    • cybersmart networking
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • heath, sister eileen
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
    • marine conservation
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • defence industry
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
    • defence
      • Humphries, Sen Gary
    • chalmers, mr rob
      • Faulkner, Sen John
    • carbon pricing
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
    • national museum of australia: forgotten australians
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • address by the president of the united states of america (Parry, Sen Stephen)
      • Crossin, Sen Trish
    • member for dobell
      • Parry, Sen Stephen
      • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
    • address by the president of the united states of america (Parry, Sen Stephen)
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
    • member for dobell (Parry, Sen Stephen)
    • occupy movement, murray-darling basin
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   questions on notice
    • prime minister and cabinet: code of conduct investigations (question no. 1047) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • trade (question no. 1095) (Brown, Sen Bob)
    • sustainability, environment, water, population and communities (question no. 1108) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • families, housing, community services and indigenous affairs (question no. 1152) (Cash, Sen Michaelia)
    • families, housing, community services and indigenous affairs (question no. 1153) (Cash, Sen Michaelia)
    • treasury: program funding (question no. 1200) (Cormann, Sen Mathias)
    • families, housing, community services and indigenous affairs: accommodation (question no. 1203) (Scullion, Sen Nigel)
    • families, housing, community services and indigenous affairs: staffing (question no. 1225) (Ludlam, Sen Scott)
    • asylum seekers (question no. 1275) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • infrastructure and transport: midlands highway (question no. 1314) (Milne, Sen Christine)
    • attorney-general: emergency alert (question no. 1434) (Humphries, Sen Gary)

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