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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • defence legislation amendment (first principles) bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Payne, Sen Marise
      • in committee
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Payne, Sen Marise
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Payne, Sen Marise
      • third reading
        • Payne, Sen Marise
    • tax laws amendment (combating multinational tax avoidance) bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Brown, Sen Carol
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Ludwig, Sen Joe
        • Ketter, Sen Christopher
  •   statement by the president
    • parliamentary language
  •   ministerial arrangements
    • Brandis, Sen George
  •   questions without notice
    • taxation (Brown, Sen Carol)
    • trade with china (Bushby, Sen David)
    • foreign investment (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • coalmining (Waters, Sen Larissa)
    • economy (Bernardi, Sen Cory)
    • economy (Lines, Sen Susan)
    • northern australia (Canavan, Sen Matthew)
    • procurement policy (Muir, Sen Ricky)
    • defence housing australia (Gallacher, Sen Alex)
    • child care (Johnston, Sen David)
    • broadband (McAllister, Sen Jenny)
    • employment (Lindgren, Sen Joanna)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • answers to questions
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
    • defence housing australia
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
    • taxation
      • Lindgren, Sen Joanna
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • coalmining
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
  •   petitions
    • marriage
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • presentation
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Bushby, Sen David
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • reporting date
    • privileges committee
      • reference
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
    • privileges committee
      • reference
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   business
    • days and hours of meeting
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   bills
    • automotive transformation scheme amendment (securing the automotive component industry) bill 2015
      • first reading
        • Rice, Sen Janet
      • second reading
        • Rice, Sen Janet
  •   motions
    • women's house
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
    • spinal cord injury awareness week
      • Lazarus, Sen Glenn
  •   business
    • days and hours of meeting
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
    • coalmining
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • division
  •   matters of urgency
    • climate change
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
      • Rice, Sen Janet
      • Reynolds, Sen Linda
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • standing committee on appropriations, staffing and security
      • report
        • Gallacher, Sen Alex (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • procedure committee
      • report
        • Marshall, Sen Gavin
    • joint standing committee on treaties
      • report
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
    • parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security
      • government response to report
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • consideration
  •   bills
    • social services legislation amendment (more generous means testing for youth payments) bill 2015
      • first reading
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
      • second reading
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
    • australian crime commission amendment (criminology research) bill 2015
      • first reading
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
      • second reading
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
    • crimes legislation amendment (powers, offences and other measures) bill 2015
      • consideration of house of representatives message
    • australian government boards (gender balanced representation) bill 2015
      • report of legislation committee
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
    • migration amendment (charging for a migration outcome) bill 2015
      • report of legislation committee
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
    • migration and maritime powers amendment bill (no. 1) 2015
      • report of legislation committee
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
    • tax laws amendment (combating multinational tax avoidance) bill 2015
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • in committee
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • division
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Conroy, Sen Stephen
  •   adjournment
    • adoption
      • Seselja, Sen Zed
    • remembrance day
      • Peris, Sen Nova
    • taxation
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
    • workplace relations
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • education funding
      • Polley, Sen Helen
    • royal commission into trade union governance and corruption
      • Conroy, Sen Stephen
    • australia's largest doorknock
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • beer sheva dialogue
      • Reynolds, Sen Linda
    • broadband: rural queensland
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher
    • 2030 agenda for sustainable development
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • australia india leadership dialogue, tuberculosis
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
    • trade
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
    • broadband
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • political fundraising
      • Madigan, Sen John
    • mazzola, mr italo
      • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
    • waters, mr david
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
    • coll, sister pauline marcella
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • federal election: funding, kaye, mr john g, mining: liverpool plains
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
    • central coast: infrastructure, education, illicit drugs
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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