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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • meeting
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   statements
    • bell group litigation
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Pratt, Sen Louise
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Pratt, Sen Louise
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Watt, Sen Murray
      • Brandis, Sen George
      • Pratt, Sen Louise
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • Watt, Sen Murray
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • Brandis, Sen George
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Brandis, Sen George
  •   bills
    • fair work amendment (protecting take-home pay) bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Polley, Sen Helen
        • Paterson, Sen James
        • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
        • Farrell, Sen Don
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Singh, Sen Lisa
        • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
      • third reading
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
    • human rights legislation amendment bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
  •   statement by the president
    • parliamentary behaviour
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • annual wage review 2016-17 (McAllister, Sen Jenny)
    • tropical cyclone debbie (Macdonald, Sen Ian)
    • annual wage review 2017 (Cameron, Sen Doug)
    • forestry industry (Rice, Sen Janet)
    • justice targets (McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri)
    • banking and financial services (Hanson, Sen Pauline)
    • higher education (Bushby, Sen David)
    • health: primary health networks (Griff, Sen Stirling)
    • workplace relations (Gallacher, Sen Alex)
    • regional australia (O'Sullivan, Sen Barry)
    • liberal party of australia (Sterle, Sen Glenn)
    • broadband (Smith, Sen Dean)
  •   statement by the president
    • day, mr bob, ao
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • domestic and family violence
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • annual wage review 2016-17
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
      • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher
      • Fawcett, Sen David
      • McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri
    • forestry industry
      • Rice, Sen Janet
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • economics references committee
      • reporting date
    • selection of bills committee
      • report
        • Fawcett, Sen David
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade joint committee, select committee on red tape
      • membership
        • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   bills
    • social services legislation amendment (seasonal worker incentives for jobseekers) bill 2017
      • first reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • social services legislation amendment bill 2017
      • returned from the house of representatives
  •   parliamentary office holders
    • temporary chairs of committees
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • great australian bight environment protection bill 2016
      • report of legislation committee
        • Fawcett, Sen David
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • Fawcett, Sen David
  •   committees
    • senate publications committee
      • report
        • Fawcett, Sen David
    • public works committee
      • report
        • Fawcett, Sen David
    • treaties committee
      • report
        • Fawcett, Sen David
    • rural and regional affairs and transport references committee
      • report
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
    • education and employment legislation committee, education and employment references committee, legal and constitutional affairs legislation committee
      • government response to report
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   documents
    • northern australia infrastructure facility
      • order for the production of documents
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   bills
    • human rights legislation amendment bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Smith, Sen Dean
        • Lines, Sen Susan
        • Griff, Sen Stirling
        • Back, Sen Chris
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Fawcett, Sen David
        • Singh, Sen Lisa
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Polley, Sen Helen
        • McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri
        • Dodson, Sen Patrick
        • McGrath, Sen James
        • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
        • Bushby, Sen David
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • division
      • in committee
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Back, Sen Chris
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Back, Sen Chris
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Paterson, Sen James
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Paterson, Sen James
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • division
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • division
        • CHAIR, The
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • division
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • division
  •   business
    • days and hours of meeting
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • division
  •   committees
    • community affairs references committee, public accounts and audit committee
      • meeting
        • Bushby, Sen David
  •   bills
    • human rights legislation amendment bill 2017
      • in committee
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Paterson, Sen James
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • division
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Paterson, Sen James
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Paterson, Sen James
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Paterson, Sen James
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Paterson, Sen James
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • division
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • division
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • division
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • division
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • third reading
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
    • treasury laws amendment (enterprise tax plan) bill 2016
      • second reading
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • Back, Sen Chris
        • Smith, Sen Dean
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • division
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
        • Hinch, Sen Derryn
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Fawcett, Sen David
        • McGrath, Sen James
        • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • division
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • division
      • in committee
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Sterle, Sen Glenn
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Marshall, Sen Gavin
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • division
        • CHAIR, The
        • division
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • division
        • CHAIR, The
        • division
        • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • division
      • third reading
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • division
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   committees
    • membership
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   bills
    • transport security amendment (serious crime) bill 2016
      • consideration of house of representatives message
  •   documents
    • royal commission into the child protection and youth detention systems of the northern territory
      • tabling
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   bills
    • human rights legislation amendment bill 2017
      • returned from the house of representatives
  •   adjournment
    • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   notices
    • presentation
  • adjournment
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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