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  • start of business
  •   committees
    • rural and regional affairs and transport references committee
      • government response to report
        • Fawcett, Sen David
  •   bills
    • minerals resource rent tax repeal and other measures bill 2013
      • second reading
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Furner, Sen Mark
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Edwards, Sen Sean
        • Sterle, Sen Glenn
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
        • Lundy, Sen Kate
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Ludwig, Sen Joe
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
  •   ministerial arrangements
    • Abetz, Sen Eric
  •   questions without notice
    • medicare (Sterle, Sen Glenn)
    • western australia: economy (Back, Sen Chris)
    • racial discrimination act (Peris, Sen Nova)
    • mining (Eggleston, Sen Alan)
    • asylum seekers (Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah)
    • telecommunications (Smith, Sen Dean)
    • sinodinos, senator arthur (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • western australia: education (McKenzie, Sen Bridget)
    • employment (Carr, Sen Kim)
    • anzac centenary (O'Sullivan, Sen Barry)
    • medicare (Lines, Sen Susan)
    • live animal exports (Back, Sen Chris)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • medicare
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • Sterle, Sen Glenn
      • Smith, Sen Dean
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • asylum seekers
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • postponement
  •   business
    • senate temporary orders
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • leave of absence
      • Kroger, Sen Helen
    • leave of absence
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • leave of absence
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade references committee
      • reference
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   matters of public importance
    • abbott government
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
      • Smith, Sen Dean
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Mason, Sen Brett
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Furner, Sen Mark
      • Eggleston, Sen Alan
  •   ministerial statements
    • united nations commission on the status of women
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • Moore, Sen Claire
  •   documents
    • order for the production of documents
      • Ruston, Sen Anne (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • western australia: shark culling
      • tabling
        • Ruston, Sen Anne (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   documents
    • review of the south australian economy and the victorian manufacturing and industry economic review
      • order for the production of documents
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Carr, Sen Kim
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Gallacher, Sen Alex
        • Back, Sen Chris
  •   committees
    • economics legislation committee, rural and regional affairs and transport legislation committee
      • report
        • Back, Sen Chris
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • economics references committee
      • membership
        • Mason, Sen Brett
  •   bills
    • export market development grants amendment bill 2014
      • first reading
        • Mason, Sen Brett
      • second reading
        • Mason, Sen Brett
    • minerals resource rent tax repeal and other measures bill 2013
      • second reading
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
        • Boyce, Sen Sue
        • Gallacher, Sen Alex
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
        • Williams, Sen John
        • Singh, Sen Lisa
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Dastyari, Sen Sam
        • Madigan, Sen John
        • Lines, Sen Susan
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
  •   adjournment
    • Fawcett, Sen David (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • world war i: commemoration
      • Back, Sen Chris
    • foreign aid
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
    • rural and regional health services
      • Wright, Sen Penny
    • greek national day
      • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • indexed lists of departmental and agency files
      • tabling
      • tabling
      • tabling

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