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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   statement by the president
    • parliamentary commission of inquiry
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • lands acquisition amendment (public purpose) bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
        • Farrell, Sen Don
    • criminal code amendment (prohibition of full face coverings in public places) bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   committees
    • selection of bills committee
      • report
        • Bushby, Sen David
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • division
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   notices
    • postponement
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   parliamentary zone
    • approval of works
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   bills
    • treasury laws amendment (improving accountability and member outcomes in superannuation measures no. 1) bill 2017, superannuation laws amendment (strengthening trustee arrangements) bill 2017
      • first reading
        • McGrath, Sen James
      • second reading
        • McGrath, Sen James
    • treasury laws amendment (putting consumers first—establishment of the australian financial complaints authority) bill 2017
      • first reading
        • McGrath, Sen James
      • second reading
        • McGrath, Sen James
  •   motions
    • r u ok? day
      • Kakoschke-Moore, Sen Skye
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • r u ok? day
    • r u ok? day
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   documents
    • community affairs references committee: government response to report
      • order for the production of documents
        • Griff, Sen Stirling
  •   committees
    • corporations and financial services committee
      • reporting date
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   motions
    • world mosquito program
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • australian citizenship day
      • Griff, Sen Stirling
    • international day of peace
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
    • burma
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
    • deputy leader of the nationals
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
      • division
  •   documents
    • future frigate program
      • order for the production of documents
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
  •   motions
    • climate science
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • division
    • higher education
      • Hanson, Sen Pauline
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
      • division
  •   notices
    • presentation
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   personal explanations
    • Cameron, Sen Doug
  •   committees
    • membership
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   bills
    • defence legislation amendment (2017 measures no. 1) bill 2017, statute update (smaller government) bill 2017
      • first reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • higher education support legislation amendment (a more sustainable, responsive and transparent higher education system) bill 2017
      • first reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • australian nuclear science and technology organisation amendment bill 2017, marriage law survey (additional safeguards) bill 2017, telecommunications and other legislation amendment bill 2017
      • returned from the house of representatives
    • marriage law survey (additional safeguards) bill 2017
      • assent
    • vaporised nicotine products bill 2017
      • report of legislation committee
        • Bushby, Sen David
    • environment and infrastructure legislation amendment (stop adani) bill 2017
      • report of legislation committee
        • Bushby, Sen David
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
    • broadcasting legislation amendment (broadcasting reform) bill 2017, commercial broadcasting (tax) bill 2017
      • in committee
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Farrell, Sen Don
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Farrell, Sen Don
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Ketter, Sen Christopher
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
  •   ministerial arrangements
    • Brandis, Sen George
  •   questions without notice
    • hadgkiss, mr nigel (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • workplace relations (Hume, Sen Jane)
    • hadgkiss, mr nigel (Cameron, Sen Doug)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • climate change (Di Natale, Sen Richard)
    • energy (Bilyk, Sen Catryna)
    • peacekeeping operations (Burston, Sen Brian)
    • australian labor party, trade unions (Bushby, Sen David)
    • community development program (Siewert, Sen Rachel)
    • renewable energy (McAllister, Sen Jenny)
    • energy (Brockman, Sen Slade)
    • newlands civil construction: senator o'sullivan (Chisholm, Sen Anthony)
  •   statement by the president
    • parliamentary language
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   personal explanations
    • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • hadgkiss, mr nigel
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Seselja, Sen Zed
      • Polley, Sen Helen
      • Hume, Sen Jane
      • Kitching, Sen Kimberley
    • community development program
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • Fawcett, Sen David
  •   committees
    • joint committee of public accounts and audit
      • report
        • Fawcett, Sen David
    • publications committee
      • report
        • Fawcett, Sen David
    • environment and communications references committee, public works committee
      • government response to report
        • McGrath, Sen James
    • corporations and financial services committee
      • report
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • national disability insurance scheme committee
      • report
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • economics references committee
      • report
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Rice, Sen Janet
    • corporations and financial services committee
      • report
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   documents
    • tabling
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • community affairs references committee: government response to report, drug and alcohol services
      • order for the production of documents
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   committees
    • community affairs references committee, environment and communications references committee
      • membership
        • Reynolds, Sen Linda (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   bills
    • broadcasting legislation amendment (broadcasting reform) bill 2017, commercial broadcasting (tax) bill 2017
      • in committee
        • TEMPORARY CHAIR, The
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • division
        • CHAIR, The
        • division
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • division
        • procedural text
        • division
      • third reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • division
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • community affairs references committee
      • report
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
    • national integrity commission committee
      • report
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
    • red tape committee
      • report
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
  •   committees
    • consideration
  •   adjournment
    • Birmingham, Sen Simon
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
  •   adjournment
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • economy
      • Hume, Sen Jane
    • r u ok? day
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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