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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   parliamentary representation
    • victoria
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • senators sworn
  •   business
    • days and hours of meeting
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
      • Muir, Sen Ricky
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
    • rearrangement
      • Lazarus, Sen Glenn
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
      • Wong, Sen Penny
  •   bills
    • commonwealth electoral amendment bill 2016
      • second reading
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
  •   ministerial arrangements
    • Brandis, Sen George
  •   questions without notice
    • hospitals (Lines, Sen Susan)
    • defence procurement (Edwards, Sen Sean)
    • hospitals (Ketter, Sen Christopher)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • commonwealth scientific and industrial research organisation (Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter)
    • building and construction industry, employment (O'Sullivan, Sen Barry)
    • marriage (Brown, Sen Carol)
    • national innovation and science agenda (Williams, Sen John)
    • road safety (Muir, Sen Ricky)
    • turnbull government (Collins, Sen Jacinta)
    • national innovation and science agenda (Lindgren, Sen Joanna)
    • australia council (Bilyk, Sen Catryna)
    • national innovation and science agenda (Reynolds, Sen Linda)
    • education funding (Dastyari, Sen Sam)
    • northern australia (Smith, Sen Dean)
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • commonwealth scientific and industrial research organisation
      • Sinodinos, Sen Arthur
  •   ministerial statements
    • fair work commission
      • Cash, Sen Michaelia
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Brandis, Sen George
  •   answers to questions on notice
    • question nos 2876 and 2820
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
      • Ludwig, Sen Joe
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • hospitals
      • Polley, Sen Helen
      • Fawcett, Sen David
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • commonwealth scientific and industrial research organisation
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   business
    • postponement
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
    • consideration of legislation
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Simms, Sen Robert
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Wong, Sen Penny
    • leave of absence
      • Bushby, Sen David
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   committees
    • reporting date
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • fair work amendment (protecting australian workers) bill 2016
      • first reading
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • second reading
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
  •   committees
    • joint committee of public accounts and audit
      • meeting
        • Bushby, Sen David
  •   motions
    • world kidney day
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
  •   committees
    • procedure committee
      • reference
        • Bushby, Sen David
  •   matters of public importance
    • taxation
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Lines, Sen Susan
      • Back, Sen Chris
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher
      • Smith, Sen Dean
  •   documents
    • consideration
      • Williams, Sen John (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • affordable housing
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
    • international day of people with disability
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • western australia: bushfires
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • third review of the dental benefits act 2008
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • Brown, Sen Carol
    • western australia: bushfires
      • Back, Sen Chris
  •   committees
    • membership
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   committees
    • report
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • public works committee
      • report
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • economics references committee
      • report
        • Ketter, Sen Christopher
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   bills
    • commonwealth electoral amendment bill 2016
      • second reading
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Polley, Sen Helen
        • Simms, Sen Robert
        • Ludwig, Sen Joe
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Lines, Sen Susan
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
  •   adjournment
    • Seselja, Sen Zed (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • medicare
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • broadband
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • wendys
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
    • anniversary of battle of pozieres
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • indigenous suicide
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • broadband
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • federal election
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • world down syndrome day
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • western sahara, live animal exports, threatened species
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
    • lyme disease
      • Madigan, Sen John
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling
    • tabling

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