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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   parliamentary representation
    • tasmania
    • senators sworn
  •   bills
    • health insurance (dental services) bill 2012 [no. 2]
      • second reading
        • Bushby, Sen David
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
        • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
        • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
        • Boyce, Sen Sue
  •   petitions
    • vietnam: human rights
    • public holidays
    • stronger futures legislation
      • Milne, Sen Christine
    • vietnam: human rights
      • Boswell, Sen Ronald
  •   notices
    • presentation
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
  •   committees
    • selection of bills committee
      • report
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
    • consideration of legislation
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
    • leave of absence
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
      • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   committees
    • economics legislation committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • public accounts and audit committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • environment and communications legislation committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • education, employment and workplace relations legislation committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • community affairs legislation committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • parliamentary joint committee on human rights
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • corporations and financial services committee
      • meeting
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
    • australia's food processing sector committee
      • meeting
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
    • rural and regional affairs and transport references committee
      • reporting date
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   motions
    • human rights: vietnam
      • Boswell, Sen Ronald
      • Boswell, Sen Ronald
      • Furner, Sen Mark
    • legal aid
      • Wright, Sen Penny
    • gun control
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • division
    • rio+20 summit 2012
      • Milne, Sen Christine
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • division
    • wikileaks
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
    • arms trade treaty
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
  •   committees
    • education, employment and workplace relations references committee
      • report
        • Back, Sen Chris
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • treaties committee
      • report
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
  •   bills
    • appropriation bill (no. 5) 2011-2012, appropriation bill (no. 6) 2011-2012
      • first reading
        • Farrell, Sen Don
      • second reading
        • Farrell, Sen Don
    • appropriation (parliamentary departments) bill (no. 1) 2012-2013, appropriation bill (no. 1) 2012-2013, appropriation bill (no. 2) 2012-2013
      • first reading
        • Farrell, Sen Don
      • second reading
        • Farrell, Sen Don
    • broadcasting services amendment (improved access to television services) bill 2012
      • first reading
      • second reading
        • Farrell, Sen Don
    • australian human rights commission amendment (national children's commissioner) bill 2012, passenger movement charge amendment bill 2012
      • first reading
        • Farrell, Sen Don
      • second reading
        • Farrell, Sen Don
    • personally controlled electronic health records bill 2011, personally controlled electronic health records (consequential amendments) bill 2011
      • returned from the house of representatives
    • electoral and referendum amendment (maintaining address) bill 2011, electoral and referendum amendment (protecting elector participation) bill 2012, second reading
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • Humphries, Sen Gary
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   questions without notice
    • carbon pricing (Brandis, Sen George)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • broadband (Bilyk, Sen Catryna)
    • employment (Bernardi, Sen Cory)
    • carbon pricing (Di Natale, Sen Richard)
    • resources and energy (McKenzie, Sen Bridget)
    • small business (McEwen, Sen Anne)
    • carbon pricing (Nash, Sen Fiona)
    • yallourn mine (Madigan, Sen John)
    • media (Birmingham, Sen Simon)
    • superannuation (Singh, Sen Lisa)
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • climate change
      • Wong, Sen Penny
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • media
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • Bishop, Sen Mark
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Marshall, Sen Gavin
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • carbon pricing
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
  •   ministerial statements
    • homelessness
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Payne, Sen Marise
  •   committees
    • government response to report
      • Wong, Sen Penny
  •   documents
    • tabling
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
      • Wong, Sen Penny
  •   bills
    • tax laws amendment (2012 measures no. 2) bill 2012, pay as you go withholding non-compliance tax bill 2012
      • first reading
        • Wong, Sen Penny
      • second reading
        • Wong, Sen Penny
  •   motions
    • carbon pricing
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
      • Williams, Sen John
      • Faulkner, Sen John
      • Scullion, Sen Nigel
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Eggleston, Sen Alan
      • division
  •   bills
    • electoral and referendum amendment (maintaining address) bill 2011, electoral and referendum amendment (protecting elector participation) bill 2012
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Joyce, Sen Barnaby
        • Abetz, Sen Eric
        • Ronaldson, Sen Michael
        • Boyce, Sen Sue
        • Edwards, Sen Sean
        • Johnston, Sen David
        • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
        • division
      • third reading
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
  •   committees
    • membership
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
    • education, employment and workplace relations legislation committee
      • meeting
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   adjournment
    • Collins, Sen Jacinta
    • cybersafety
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • grace kelly: style icon exhibition, tourism
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
    • cystic fibrosis
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • sudden arrhythmic death syndrome
      • Boyce, Sen Sue
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   questions on notice
    • qantas (question no. 1324) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • qantas (question no. 1326) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • qantas (question no. 1329) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • pontville immigration detention centre (question no. 1688) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • infrastructure and transport (question no. 1744) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • immigration and citizenship (question no. 1827) (Cash, Sen Michaelia)
    • employment and workplace relations (question no. 1828) (Abetz, Sen Eric)
    • foreign affairs (question no. 1851) (Johnston, Sen David)

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