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  • start of business
  •   bills
    • environment protection and biodiversity conservation amendment (cost recovery) bill 2014
      • second reading
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • third reading
        • Gallacher, Sen Alex (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • division
    • australian workforce and productivity agency repeal bill 2014
      • second reading
        • Lines, Sen Susan
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Ronaldson, Sen Michael
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • division
      • third reading
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • Ronaldson, Sen Michael
  •   ministerial arrangements
    • Abetz, Sen Eric
  •   questions without notice
    • environment: heritage listing (Thorp, Sen Lin)
    • environment: heritage listing (Milne, Sen Christine)
    • greste, mr peter (Kroger, Sen Helen)
    • sharrouf, mr khaled (Stephens, Sen Ursula)
    • asylum seekers (Smith, Sen Dean)
    • unemployment benefits (Siewert, Sen Rachel)
    • budget (Urquhart, Sen Anne)
    • child care (Seselja, Sen Zed)
    • higher education (Brown, Sen Carol)
    • defence (Eggleston, Sen Alan)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • environment: heritage listing
      • Thorp, Sen Lin
      • Bushby, Sen David
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • Colbeck, Sen Richard
      • Brown, Sen Carol
    • unemployment benefits
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • environment and communications legislation committee
      • reporting date
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
  •   motions
    • standing orders
      • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   business
    • senate temporary orders
      • Kroger, Sen Helen
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • aboriginal and torres strait islander amendment (a stronger land account) bill 2014
      • first reading
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • second reading
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   committees
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • reference
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
    • select committee on school funding
      • reporting date
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
  •   motions
    • marshall islands: nuclear disarmament
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
  •   delegation reports
    • parliamentary delegation to republic of cyprus and russian federation
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   documents
    • president of the senate
      • tabling
        • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   auditor-general's reports
    • reports nos 49 and 50 of 2013-14
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • trade in services agreement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   committees
    • public works committee
      • report
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
    • treaties committee
      • report
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
    • finance and public administration legislation committee
      • additional information
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
    • parliamentary joint committee on human rights
      • report
        • Smith, Sen Dean
  •   delegation reports
    • parliamentary delegation to vanuatu and new zealand
      • Stephens, Sen Ursula
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
      • Moore, Sen Claire
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   address by the prime minister of japan
    • Stephens, Sen Ursula (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
  •   bills
    • family assistance legislation amendment (child care measures) bill 2014
      • consideration of house of representatives message
    • appropriation (parliamentary departments) bill (no. 1) 2014-2015, appropriation bill (no. 1) 2014-2015, appropriation bill (no. 2) 2014-2015
      • first reading
        • Colbeck, Sen Richard
      • second reading
        • Colbeck, Sen Richard
    • appropriation bill (no. 5) 2013-2014, appropriation bill (no. 6) 2013-2014
      • first reading
        • Colbeck, Sen Richard
      • second reading
        • Colbeck, Sen Richard
    • health insurance amendment (extended medicare safety net) bill 2014, regulatory powers (standard provisions) bill 2014
      • first reading
        • Colbeck, Sen Richard
      • second reading
        • Colbeck, Sen Richard
  •   parliamentary representation
    • valedictory
      • Tillem, Sen Mehmet
      • Thorp, Sen Lin
      • Pratt, Sen Louise
      • Stephens, Sen Ursula
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Scullion, Sen Nigel
      • Polley, Sen Helen
      • Brown, Sen Carol
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • Kroger, Sen Helen
      • Smith, Sen Dean
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   adjournment
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • wanachote, mr khun kanit, oam
      • Williams, Sen John
    • tobacco plain packaging
      • Faulkner, Sen John
    • managed investment schemes
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
    • tax evasion
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
    • budget
      • Polley, Sen Helen
    • g20: policing
      • Furner, Sen Mark
    • hockey
      • Peris, Sen Nova
    • assyrian community
      • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
    • daytime running lights
      • Parry, Sen Stephen
    • motor neurone disease
      • Boyce, Sen Sue
    • small steps, cybersafety book launch
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • budget
      • Madigan, Sen John
    • child abuse
      • Kroger, Sen Helen
    • environment
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
    • homelessness
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • pharmaceutical benefits scheme
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
    • people's mojahedin organization of iran
      • Moore, Sen Claire
    • holt, mr peter
      • Dastyari, Sen Sam
    • future of financial advice, hawkesbury river railway crossing, crime prevention
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
    • budget
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
    • budget
      • Marshall, Sen Gavin
    • radioactive waste
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
    • malaysia: rare earth refinery, williams, mr chappy
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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