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  • start of business
  •   privilege
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • Sterle, Sen Glenn
  •   committees
    • corporations and financial services committee
      • meeting
        • Bushby, Sen David
  •   bills
    • clean energy legislation (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, true-up shortfall levy (general) (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, true-up shortfall levy (excise) (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, customs tariff amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, excise tariff amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas (import levy) amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas (manufacture levy) amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2014, ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas (import levy) (transitional provisions) bill 2014
      • in committee
        • Marshall, Sen Gavin (The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN)
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Singh, Sen Lisa
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Lines, Sen Susan
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • procedural text
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • procedural text
        • Singh, Sen Lisa
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Singh, Sen Lisa
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Singh, Sen Lisa
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Lines, Sen Susan
  •   matters of public interest
    • O'Neill, Sen Deb (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • budget
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • jones, mr gavin
      • Peris, Sen Nova
    • western australia: housing and homelessness
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
    • homophobia
      • Wong, Sen Penny
    • health care, veterans' affairs, tasmanian freight equalisation scheme, commonwealth scientific and industrial research organisation
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
    • budget
      • Polley, Sen Helen
  •   condolences
    • underwood, his exellency the hon. peter george ac
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • future of financial advice (O'Neill, Sen Deb)
    • carbon pricing (Back, Sen Chris)
    • workplace relations (Lines, Sen Susan)
    • schools: corporal punishment (Wright, Sen Penny)
    • budget (Edwards, Sen Sean)
    • anzus treaty (Conroy, Sen Stephen)
    • broadband (Canavan, Sen Matthew)
    • employment (DAY, Sen Bob)
    • education (Carr, Sen Kim)
    • child care (Ruston, Sen Anne)
    • budget (Moore, Sen Claire)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • future of financial advice
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
      • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
      • Dastyari, Sen Sam
    • schools: corporal punishment
      • Wright, Sen Penny
  •   personal explanations
    • McLucas, Sen Jan
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • postponement
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   bills
    • national security legislation amendment bill (no. 1) 2014
      • first reading
        • Brandis, Sen George
      • second reading
        • Brandis, Sen George
    • guardian for unaccompanied children bill 2014
      • first reading
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • second reading
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
  •   committees
    • rural and regional affairs and transport references committee
      • reporting date
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   motions
    • falun gong practitioners
      • Madigan, Sen John
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
    • asylum seekers
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
    • higher education
      • Bushby, Sen David
      • Carr, Sen Kim
      • Carr, Sen Kim
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • wicked campers
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   committees
    • scrutiny of bills committee
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • regulations and ordinances committee
      • delegated legislation monitor
        • Bushby, Sen David
    • community affairs legislation committee
      • report
        • Bushby, Sen David
    • rural and regional affairs and transport references committee
      • report
        • Sterle, Sen Glenn
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • education and employment references committee
      • report
        • Lines, Sen Susan
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
    • constitutional recognition of atsip
      • report
        • Peris, Sen Nova
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   first speech
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • McGrath, Sen James
  •   first speech
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • Canavan, Sen Matthew
  •   ministerial statements
    • national plan to reduce violence against women and their children
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   committees
    • government response to report
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • membership
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   bills
    • trade support loans bill 2014
      • returned from the house of representatives
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   committees
    • environment and communications legislation committee
      • report
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   regulations and determinations
    • migration amendment (offshore resources activity) regulation 2014
      • disallowance
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Back, Sen Chris
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   adjournment
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • budget
      • Brown, Sen Carol
    • domestic violence
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
    • budget
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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