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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • corporations and financial services committee
      • meeting
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • freedom of information amendment (requests and reasons) bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
        • Johnston, Sen David
    • mining subsidies legislation amendment (raising revenue) bill 2014
      • second reading
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Back, Sen Chris
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • withdrawal
      • Williams, Sen John
  •   committees
    • selection of bills committee
      • report
        • Bushby, Sen David
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • rearrangement
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • rearrangement
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • leave of absence
      • Bushby, Sen David
  •   notices
    • postponement
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   committees
    • economics references committee
      • reference
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • economics references committee
      • reference
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
        • division
  •   motions
    • student services and amenities fee
      • Day, Sen Bob
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • Simms, Sen Robert
      • division
  •   documents
    • old gosford public school site
      • order for the production of documents
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
  •   motions
    • agriculture
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • pension loan scheme
      • Lazarus, Sen Glenn
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • genetically modified crops
      • Smith, Sen Dean
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • Smith, Sen Dean
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • paris climate summit
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • division
  •   committees
    • education and employment references committee, finance and public administration references committee, select committee on health, select committee on the murray-darling basin plan
      • membership
        • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
  •   bills
    • foreign acquisitions and takeovers legislation amendment bill 2015, register of foreign ownership of agricultural land bill 2015, foreign acquisitions and takeovers fees imposition bill 2015
      • assent
  •   committees
    • legal and constitutional affairs legislation committee
      • report
        • Bushby, Sen David
  •   bills
    • shipping legislation amendment bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
    • tax laws amendment (gifts) bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • third reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • aboriginal land rights (northern territory) amendment bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • third reading
        • Williams, Sen John (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • aviation transport security amendment (cargo) bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • third reading
        • Williams, Sen John (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • maritime legislation amendment bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • third reading
        • Williams, Sen John (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • shipping legislation amendment bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Muir, Sen Ricky
        • Lazarus, Sen Glenn
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Colbeck, Sen Richard
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • special minister of state (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • vocational education and training (Williams, Sen John)
    • special minister of state (Collins, Sen Jacinta)
    • mental health (Rice, Sen Janet)
    • arts funding (Bilyk, Sen Catryna)
    • defence procurement (Xenophon, Sen Nick)
    • broadband (Reynolds, Sen Linda)
    • government services (Siewert, Sen Rachel)
    • department of industry, innovation and science: ict sustainability plan (Carr, Sen Kim)
    • northern australia (Smith, Sen Dean)
    • behavioural economics (O'Neill, Sen Deb)
    • racial discrimination act 1975 (Moore, Sen Claire)
    • brisbane west wellcamp airport (Canavan, Sen Matthew)
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • department of industry, innovation and science: ict sustainability plan, behavioural economics
      • Sinodinos, Sen Arthur
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • special minister of state
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
      • Ludwig, Sen Joe
    • government services
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • Smith, Sen Dean
  •   committees
    • finance and public administration legislation committee
      • report
        • Smith, Sen Dean
  •   ministerial statements
    • trade with china
      • Payne, Sen Marise
  •   committees
    • select committee on health
      • membership
        • Gallacher, Sen Alex (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Payne, Sen Marise
  •   motions
    • syria and iraq
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • Smith, Sen Dean
      • Ludwig, Sen Joe
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • Reynolds, Sen Linda
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • community affairs references committee
      • report
        • Polley, Sen Helen
    • rural and regional affairs and transport legislation committee
      • report
        • Ludwig, Sen Joe
    • education and employment references committee
      • report
        • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • finance and public administration references committee
      • report
        • Moore, Sen Claire
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • report
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
  •   committees
    • consideration
  •   adjournment
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • fishing industry
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
    • united nations human rights council
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • defence procurement
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
    • western australia: goods and services tax
      • Smith, Sen Dean
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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