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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade legislation committee, parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security, national broadband network select committee, joint standing committee on national capital and external territories, joint statutory committee on public works
      • meeting
  •   bills
    • commonwealth electoral amendment bill 2016
      • first reading
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Collins, Sen Jacinta
        • Madigan, Sen John
        • Brown, Sen Carol
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   questions without notice
    • taxation (Gallagher, Sen Katy)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • media ownership (Smith, Sen Dean)
    • taxation (Ketter, Sen Christopher)
    • pensions and benefits (Siewert, Sen Rachel)
    • defence white paper (Back, Sen Chris)
    • defence procurement (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • defence white paper, defence procurement (Edwards, Sen Sean)
    • defence procurement (Lambie, Sen Jacqui)
    • abbott government (Sterle, Sen Glenn)
    • australian defence force (Macdonald, Sen Ian)
    • superannuation (Gallacher, Sen Alex)
    • vocational education and training (McKenzie, Sen Bridget)
    • work health and safety (McAllister, Sen Jenny)
    • australian natural disasters (O'Sullivan, Sen Barry)
  •   statements
    • northern australia
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
      • McLucas, Sen Jan
      • Wong, Sen Penny
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • taxation
      • Gallagher, Sen Katy
      • Seselja, Sen Zed
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
    • defence procurement
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • withdrawal
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   committees
    • community affairs legislation committee, legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • reporting date
        • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
  •   motions
    • south australian automotive industry
      • Simms, Sen Robert
    • tibet
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • north stradbroke island
      • Lindgren, Sen Joanna
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • division
    • hepatitis c
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • donations to political parties
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • canberra airport
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • Ryan, Sen Scott
      • division
  •   bills
    • restoring territory rights (dying with dignity) bill 2016
      • first reading
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • second reading
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
  •   matters of public importance
    • election of senators
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
      • Day, Sen Bob
      • Reynolds, Sen Linda
      • Brown, Sen Carol
      • Simms, Sen Robert
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
      • Lines, Sen Susan
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
      • Madigan, Sen John
      • Wang, Sen Zhenya
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
      • Lazarus, Sen Glenn
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
  •   committees
    • legislation committees
      • report
        • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
    • rural and regional affairs and transport references committee
      • corrigenda to report
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • human rights committee
      • report
        • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
  •   ministerial statements
    • 25th anniversary of the first gulf war
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Conroy, Sen Stephen
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
  •   committees
    • environment and communications references committee, foreign affairs, defence and trade references committee
      • membership
        • Seselja, Sen Zed (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
  •   bills
    • business services wage assessment tool payment scheme amendment bill 2016, trade legislation amendment bill (no. 1) 2016
      • first reading
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
        • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
        • Conroy, Sen Stephen
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Marshall, Sen Gavin
        • division
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Conroy, Sen Stephen
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • division
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • division
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • division
    • communications legislation amendment (deregulation and other measures) bill 2015
      • consideration of house of representatives message
    • corporations amendment (streamlining of future of financial advice) bill 2014, social services legislation amendment (family measures) bill 2015, tax laws amendment (implementation of the common reporting standard) bill 2015
      • returned from the house of representatives
    • telecommunications (numbering charges) amendment bill 2015, competition and consumer amendment (payment surcharges) bill 2015, tax and superannuation laws amendment (2015 measures no. 6) bill 2015, insolvency law reform bill 2015, narcotic drugs amendment bill 2016, offshore petroleum and greenhouse gas storage amendment bill 2016, broadcasting legislation amendment (digital radio) bill 2015, crimes legislation amendment (proceeds of crime and other measures) bill 2015
      • assent
    • corporations amendment (crowd-sourced funding) bill 2015
      • report of legislation committee
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • social services legislation amendment (family payments structural reform and participation measures) bill (no. 2) 2015
      • report of legislation committee
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • commonwealth electoral amendment bill 2016
      • first reading
        • Sterle, Sen Glenn
  •   adjournment
    • O'Neill, Sen Deb (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • education funding
      • Polley, Sen Helen
    • agriculture
      • Williams, Sen John
    • tibet
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
    • weston, mr jeff
    • driscoll, mr kevin james, obe, cbe
      • Scullion, Sen Nigel
    • international women's day
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
    • safe schools coalition australia, marriage
      • Brown, Sen Carol
    • workplace relations
      • Simms, Sen Robert
    • valedictory
      • Bullock, Sen Joseph
    • bullock, senator joe
      • Madigan, Sen John
    • mardi gras
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • shipping: mv portland
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • senator bullock
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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