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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • community affairs references committee, treaties committee
      • meeting
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   governor-general's speech
    • address-in-reply
      • Lines, Sen Susan
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
      • Back, Sen Chris
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
      • Simms, Sen Robert
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
  •   questions without notice
    • government advertising (Gallagher, Sen Katy)
    • transport industry (O'Sullivan, Sen Barry)
    • higher education (Carr, Sen Kim)
    • anti-corruption commission (Di Natale, Sen Richard)
    • economy (Bushby, Sen David)
    • taxation (Polley, Sen Helen)
    • defence procurement (Edwards, Sen Sean)
      • Payne, Sen Marise
    • education funding (Lambie, Sen Jacqui)
    • donations to political parties (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • broadcasting legislation (Smith, Sen Dean)
    • women's workforce participation (Moore, Sen Claire)
    • education (McKenzie, Sen Bridget)
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • Carr, Sen Kim
      • Sinodinos, Sen Arthur
      • Carr, Sen Kim
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • division
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • higher education, taxation
      • Carr, Sen Kim
      • Smith, Sen Dean
      • Polley, Sen Helen
      • Back, Sen Chris
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • Smith, Sen Dean
      • division
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • division
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • division
  •   committees
    • finance and public administration references committee
      • reference
        • Wong, Sen Penny
      • reference
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • division
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
      • division
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • Muir, Sen Ricky
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Back, Sen Chris
    • consideration of legislation
      • Back, Sen Chris
  •   motions
    • tobacco taxation
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
    • anti-corruption commission
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • division
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
    • consideration of legislation
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
    • consideration of legislation
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • consideration of legislation
      • Muir, Sen Ricky
  •   documents
    • research infrastructure review
      • order for the production of documents
        • Carr, Sen Kim
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • consideration of legislation
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • consideration of legislation
      • Moore, Sen Claire
  •   motions
    • indigenous incarceration and deaths in custody
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • financial services
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • division
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   motions
    • myanmar
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • public transport
      • Rice, Sen Janet
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • division
    • australian pesticides and veterinary medicines authority
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
    • aboriginal and torres strait islander suicide prevention evaluation project
      • Lines, Sen Susan
  •   documents
    • perth freight link
      • order for the production of documents
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
  •   committees
    • joint committee of public accounts and audit
      • meeting
        • Smith, Sen Dean
  •   motions
    • steel industry
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • Carr, Sen Kim
      • division
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • division
  •   documents
    • macroeconomics.com.au pty ltd
      • order for the production of documents
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • division
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
    • consideration of legislation
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
  •   motions
    • steel industry
      • Carr, Sen Kim
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
    • world down syndrome day
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • steel industry
      • Simms, Sen Robert
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • Carr, Sen Kim
      • division
  •   documents
    • asylum seekers
      • order for the production of documents
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • division
  •   motions
    • climate change
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • division
    • financial services
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • division
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
  •   committees
    • membership
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • membership
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   bills
    • northern australia infrastructure facility bill 2016, northern australia infrastructure facility (consequential amendments) bill 2016
      • first reading
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • second reading
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • commonwealth electoral amendment bill 2016
      • returned from the house of representatives
    • road safety remuneration repeal bill 2016
      • assent
  •   business
    • days and hours of meeting
      • Moore, Sen Claire
  •   adjournment
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • united kingdom
      • Paterson, Sen James
    • tasmania: federal election
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
    • queen elizabeth ii: 90th birthday
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • aboriginal and torres strait islander suicide prevention evaluation program
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • illicit drugs
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
    • lazarus, senator glenn, queensland: agriculture
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
    • financial services
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
    • lazarus, senator glenn, queensland: agriculture
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • lazarus, senator glenn, queensland: agriculture
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
    • higher education: australian history
      • Lindgren, Sen Joanna
    • broadband
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • indigenous communities
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • forestry
      • Rice, Sen Janet
    • garland, canon david john, obe
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • department of veterans' affairs
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
    • murray-darling basin authority
      • Madigan, Sen John
    • climate change, asbestos safety and eradication agency, taxation, donations to political parties
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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