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  • start of business
  •   parliamentary representation
    • election petition
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   committees
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade legislation committee, legal and constitutional affairs legislation committee
      • meeting
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   bills
    • climate change authority (abolition) bill 2013
      • second reading
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   bills
    • clean energy legislation (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas (import levy) amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas (import levy) (transitional provisions) bill 2013, ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas (manufacture levy) amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, true-up shortfall levy (general) (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, true-up shortfall levy (excise) (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, customs tariff amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, excise tariff amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, clean energy (income tax rates and other amendments) bill 2013
      • second reading
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • Milne, Sen Christine
        • Edwards, Sen Sean
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • climate change authority (abolition) bill 2013
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
    • clean energy legislation (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas (import levy) amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas (import levy) (transitional provisions) bill 2013, ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas (manufacture levy) amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, true-up shortfall levy (general) (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, true-up shortfall levy (excise) (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, customs tariff amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, excise tariff amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, clean energy (income tax rates and other amendments) bill 2013
      • second reading
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Mason, Sen Brett
        • Polley, Sen Helen
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • health (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • carbon pricing (Back, Sen Chris)
    • ministerial staff: code of conduct (McLucas, Sen Jan)
    • ukraine (Bernardi, Sen Cory)
    • homelessness (Ludlam, Sen Scott)
    • drought (O'Sullivan, Sen Barry)
    • water (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • australian defence force (Eggleston, Sen Alan)
    • water (Carr, Sen Kim)
    • asylum seekers (Seselja, Sen Zed)
    • financial services (Dastyari, Sen Sam)
    • indigenous affairs (Boyce, Sen Sue)
  •   answers to questions on notice
    • question no. 7
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • water
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • Carr, Sen Kim
      • Bushby, Sen David
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
    • homelessness
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   committees
    • legal and constitutional affairs legislation committee
      • reporting date
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   notices
    • postponement
    • withdrawal
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
  •   motions
    • forced marriage
      • Kroger, Sen Helen
    • renal services
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • Madigan, Sen John
  •   documents
    • national security
      • order for the production of documents
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Brandis, Sen George
  •   matters of public importance
    • abbott government
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
      • Madigan, Sen John
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • Ludwig, Sen Joe
      • Smith, Sen Dean
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee, rural and regional affairs and transport references committee, community affairs references committee
      • reporting date
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
  •   parliamentary representation
    • queensland
  •   documents
    • business of the senate
      • tabling
    • korea-australia free trade agreement
      • order for the production of documents
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
    • australian broadcasting corporation
      • order for the production of documents
    • responses to senate resolutions
      • tabling
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Milne, Sen Christine
      • tabling
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
  •   delegation reports
    • parliamentary delegation to mexico
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
  •   committees
    • joint standing committee on electoral matters
      • report
        • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   ministerial statements
    • questions without notice
      • Sinodinos, Sen Arthur
      • Wong, Sen Penny
  •   bills
    • primary industries (excise) levies amendment (dairy produce) bill 2014
      • first reading
        • Sinodinos, Sen Arthur
      • second reading
        • Sinodinos, Sen Arthur
    • tax bonus for working australians repeal bill 2013
      • first reading
        • Sinodinos, Sen Arthur
      • second reading
        • Sinodinos, Sen Arthur
  •   committees
    • abbott government's commission of audit select committee, community affairs references committee, economics legislation committee, economics references committee, education and employment legislation committee, education and employment references committee, electoral matters committee, environment and communications legislation committee, environment and communications references committee, finance and public administration legislation committee, finance and public administration references committee, foreign affairs, defence and trade legislation committee, foreign affairs, defence and trade references committee, legal and constitutional affairs legislation committee, legal and constitutional affairs references committee, national broadband network select committee, national disability insurance scheme, northern australia select committee, public works committee, rural and regional affairs and transport legislation committee, rural and regional affairs and transport references committee, school funding select committee
      • membership
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Sinodinos, Sen Arthur
    • joint committee of public accounts and audit, joint standing committee on treaties
      • membership
  •   bills
    • clean energy legislation (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas (import levy) amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas (import levy) (transitional provisions) bill 2013, ozone protection and synthetic greenhouse gas (manufacture levy) amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, true-up shortfall levy (general) (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, true-up shortfall levy (excise) (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, customs tariff amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, excise tariff amendment (carbon tax repeal) bill 2013, clean energy (income tax rates and other amendments) bill 2013
      • second reading
        • Lundy, Sen Kate
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Wright, Sen Penny
        • Eggleston, Sen Alan
        • Singh, Sen Lisa
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
        • Lines, Sen Susan
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   adjournment
    • Furner, Sen Mark (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • uwa gives back
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • world war i
      • Farrell, Sen Don
    • western australia: senate election
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
    • international women's day
      • Kroger, Sen Helen
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling
    • departmental and agency contracts
      • tabling
    • departmental and agency appointments and vacancies
      • tabling
    • departmental and agency grants
      • tabling
    • order for the production of documents
      • tabling
      • tabling
      • tabling
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