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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   parliamentary representation
    • queensland
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • treasury laws amendment (enterprise tax plan no. 2) bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Anning, Sen Fraser
        • Brockman, Sen Slade
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Reynolds, Sen Linda
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • withdrawal
      • Williams, Sen John
  •   committees
    • selection of bills committee
      • report
        • Bushby, Sen David
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • leave of absence
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • rearrangement
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   committees
    • education and employment legislation committee, rural and regional affairs and transport references committee
      • reporting date
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   business
    • days and hours of meeting
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   committees
    • corporations and financial services committee
      • reference
        • Williams, Sen John
  •   documents
    • regional forest agreements
      • order for the production of documents
        • Rice, Sen Janet
  •   motions
    • international day of remembrance of the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • world tuberculosis day
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • homelessness
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • world water day
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • south australia: energy
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • iraq war
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • division
  •   committees
    • membership
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   bills
    • treasury laws amendment (enhancing whistleblower protections) bill 2017
      • report of legislation committee
        • Bushby, Sen David
    • treasury laws amendment (enterprise tax plan no. 2) bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
        • Molan, Sen Jim
    • veterans' affairs legislation amendment (veteran-centric reforms no. 1) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Farrell, Sen Don
        • Kitching, Sen Kimberley
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • third reading
        • Reynolds, Sen Linda (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • treasury laws amendment (income tax consolidation integrity) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • third reading
        • Ketter, Sen Christopher (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • social services legislation amendment (14-month regional independence criteria) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • third reading
        • Ketter, Sen Christopher (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • treasury laws amendment (national housing and homelessness agreement) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
        • Ketter, Sen Christopher
        • Bartlett, Sen Andrew
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • third reading
        • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • proceeds of crime amendment (proceeds and other matters) bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • third reading
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • imported food control amendment (country of origin) bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • third reading
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • crimes legislation amendment (international crime cooperation and other measures) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
  •   parliamentary representation
    • queensland
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • senators sworn
  •   questions without notice
    • taxation (Cameron, Sen Doug)
  • distinguished visitors
  •   questions without notice
    • employment (Fawcett, Sen David)
    • defence industry (Carr, Sen Kim)
    • privacy act 1988 (Steele-John, Sen Jordon)
    • schools (O'Neill, Sen Deb)
    • royal commission into misconduct in the banking, superannuation and financial services industry (Georgiou, Sen Peter)
    • health care (Paterson, Sen James)
    • murray-darling basin (Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah)
    • dividend imputation (Sterle, Sen Glenn)
    • taxation (Colbeck, Sen Richard)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • taxation
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Paterson, Sen James
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
      • Reynolds, Sen Linda
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
    • privacy act 1988
      • Steele-John, Sen Jordon
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • Fawcett, Sen David
  •   committees
    • community affairs legislation committee, community affairs references committee
      • government response to report
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
    • rural and regional affairs and transport references committee
      • report
        • Sterle, Sen Glenn
        • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
        • Bartlett, Sen Andrew
        • Gallacher, Sen Alex
  •   committees
    • membership
      • Marshall, Sen Gavin (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Cash, Sen Michaelia
  •   motions
    • asbestos
      • Hanson, Sen Pauline
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher
      • Molan, Sen Jim
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
      • Williams, Sen John
  •   documents
    • murray-darling basin
      • order for the production of documents
        • Scullion, Sen Nigel
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Smith, Sen Dean
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   auditor-general's reports
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • select committee on red tape
      • report
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
  •   documents
    • building and construction industry
      • consideration
        • Cameron, Sen Doug
  •   committees
    • consideration
  •   adjournment
    • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
    • workplace relations, world down syndrome day
      • Brown, Sen Carol
    • cooper, professor david, ao
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • griggs, vice admiral ray, ao, csc, ran
      • Patrick, Sen Rex
    • chinatex australia pty ltd
      • Williams, Sen John
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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