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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   bills
    • marriage amendment bill (no. 2) 2012
      • second reading
        • McLucas, Sen Jan
        • Boyce, Sen Sue
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Stephens, Sen Ursula
        • Humphries, Sen Gary
        • Madigan, Sen John
        • Thorp, Sen Lin
        • Ronaldson, Sen Michael
        • Furner, Sen Mark
        • Williams, Sen John
        • Carr, Sen Kim
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Hogg, Sen John
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Evans, Sen Christopher
        • Fawcett, Sen David
        • Farrell, Sen Don
  •   petitions
    • marriage
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   committees
    • selection of bills committee
      • report
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
  •   committees
    • legal and constitutional affairs legislation committee
      • reporting date
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • electricity prices committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • community affairs legislation committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • community affairs references committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • community affairs references committee
      • reference
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   documents
    • longitudinal study of indigenous children
      • order for the production of documents
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   bills
    • renewable energy (electricity) amendment (excessive noise from wind farms) bill 2012
      • reference to committee
        • Madigan, Sen John
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • division
  •   committees
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • reference
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Wright, Sen Penny
  •   motions
    • wilders, mr geert
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • division
    • bald hills wind farm
      • Madigan, Sen John
    • newstart allowance
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • division
    • threatened species and wilderness
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • division
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   committees
    • community affairs legislation committee
      • additional information
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • publications committee
      • report
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   bills
    • australian charities and not-for-profits commission bill 2012, australian charities and not-for-profits commission (consequential and transitional) bill 2012
      • first reading
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • second reading
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
  •   committees
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade joint committee
      • membership
  •   bills
    • marriage amendment bill (no. 2) 2012
      • second reading
        • Thistlethwaite, Sen Matt
    • judges and governors-general legislation amendment (family law) bill 2012
      • second reading
        • Humphries, Sen Gary
        • Feeney, Sen David
      • third reading
        • Fawcett, Sen David (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Feeney, Sen David
    • marriage amendment bill (no. 2) 2012
      • second reading
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
        • Brown, Sen Carol
        • Marshall, Sen Gavin
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Feeney, Sen David
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Lundy, Sen Kate
  •   questions without notice
    • budget (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • constitutional recognition of indigenous australians (Brown, Sen Carol)
    • mining (Cormann, Sen Mathias)
    • vocational education and training (Rhiannon, Sen Lee)
    • building better regional cities (Payne, Sen Marise)
    • immigration (Polley, Sen Helen)
    • defence personnel (Macdonald, Sen Ian)
    • qantas (Xenophon, Sen Nick)
    • carbon pricing (McKenzie, Sen Bridget)
    • agriculture, fisheries and forestry: investment (Gallacher, Sen Alex)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • budget, mining, building better regional cities program
      • Sinodinos, Sen Arthur
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
      • Williams, Sen John
      • Polley, Sen Helen
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • vocational education and training
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   committees
    • community affairs references committee
      • government response to report
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   bills
    • marriage amendment bill (no. 2) 2012
      • second reading
        • Crossin, Sen Trish
        • division
  •   parliamentary office holders
    • temporary chairmen of committees
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   auditor-general's reports
    • report for 2011-12, report no. 4 of 2012-13
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   committees
    • electoral matters committee
      • report
        • Brown, Sen Carol
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
        • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
        • Marshall, Sen Gavin
    • human rights committee
      • report
        • Brown, Sen Carol
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • membership
        • Carr, Sen Kim
  •   bills
    • environment protection and biodiversity conservation amendment (declared commercial fishing activities) bill 2012
      • assent
  •   motions
    • agriculture, fisheries and forestry industries
      • Nash, Sen Fiona
      • Sterle, Sen Glenn
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Thorp, Sen Lin
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
  •   committees
    • human rights committee
      • report
        • Stephens, Sen Ursula
        • Stephens, Sen Ursula
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • consideration
  •   auditor-general's reports
    • report no. 3 of 2012-13
      • Williams, Sen John
  •   auditor-general's reports
    • consideration
  •   adjournment
    • McLucas, Sen Jan
    • living away from home allowance
      • Boyce, Sen Sue
    • operation flinders
      • Wright, Sen Penny
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   questions on notice
    • kokoda track (question no. 1941) (Ronaldson, Sen Michael)
    • kokoda track (question no. 1942) (Ronaldson, Sen Michael)
    • kokoda track (question no. 1943) (Ronaldson, Sen Michael)
    • kokoda track (question no. 1944) (Ronaldson, Sen Michael)
    • kokoda track (question no. 1945) (Ronaldson, Sen Michael)
    • kokoda track (question no. 1946) (Ronaldson, Sen Michael)
    • kokoda track (question no. 1947) (Ronaldson, Sen Michael)
    • kokoda track (question no. 1948) (Ronaldson, Sen Michael)
    • kokoda track (question no. 1949) (Ronaldson, Sen Michael)
    • kokoda track (question no. 1950) (Ronaldson, Sen Michael)
    • immigration and citizenship (question no. 2093) (Cash, Sen Michaelia)
    • employment and workplace relations (question no. 2095) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • employment and workplace relations (question no. 2099) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • agriculture, fisheries and forestry (question no. 2110) (Edwards, Sen Sean)
    • agriculture, fisheries and forestry (question no. 2111) (Edwards, Sen Sean)
    • housing (question no. 2117) (Payne, Sen Marise)
    • employment and workplace relations (question no. 2135) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • employment and workplace relations (question no. 2136) (Abetz, Sen Eric)

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