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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade references committee
      • meeting
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • offshore petroleum and greenhouse gas storage amendment bill 2016
      • second reading
        • Carr, Sen Kim
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
      • in committee
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
      • third reading
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • narcotic drugs amendment bill 2016
      • first reading
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
      • second reading
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Brown, Sen Carol
        • Xenophon, Sen Nick
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Singh, Sen Lisa
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
      • third reading
        • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
        • Nash, Sen Fiona
    • social services legislation amendment (family measures) bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   statements by senators
    • royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse
      • Heffernan, Sen Bill
    • tropical cyclone winston
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
    • education funding
      • Rice, Sen Janet
    • education funding
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
    • economy
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher
    • inglis, mr brad, kulture break, ricky stuart house, canberra grammar school, adoption
      • Seselja, Sen Zed
    • australian embassy: doha
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
    • education funding
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
  •   questions without notice
    • taxation (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • tropical cyclone winston (Reynolds, Sen Linda)
    • education funding (Dastyari, Sen Sam)
    • education funding (Simms, Sen Robert)
    • building and construction industry (Lindgren, Sen Joanna)
    • meat industry (Lazarus, Sen Glenn)
    • child care (Seselja, Sen Zed)
    • liberal party (Leyonhjelm, Sen David)
    • defence procurement (Conroy, Sen Stephen)
    • domestic and family violence (Ronaldson, Sen Michael)
    • higher education (Carr, Sen Kim)
  •   party office holders
    • nationals whip
      • Scullion, Sen Nigel
  •   answers to questions on notice
    • question nos 2642 and 2907
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • Edwards, Sen Sean
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • taxation, education funding
      • Dastyari, Sen Sam
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • McEwen, Sen Anne
    • education funding
      • Simms, Sen Robert
  •   notices
    • presentation
      • Williams, Sen John
    • postponement
      • Simms, Sen Robert
  •   motions
    • steel industry
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
  •   documents
    • commonwealth scientific and industrial research organisation
      • order for the production of documents
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
  •   motions
    • anti-protest laws
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   committees
    • electoral matters committee
      • reference
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
        • division
  •   motions
    • liquor licensing
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • division
  •   committees
    • education and employment references committee
      • reference
        • Madigan, Sen John
        • division
    • select committee on the establishment of a national integrity commission
      • appointment
        • Wang, Sen Zhenya
        • Ryan, Sen Scott
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • division
  •   documents
    • government departments: outsourcing to foreign businesses
      • order for the production of documents
        • Lazarus, Sen Glenn
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • division
  •   matters of urgency
    • donations to political parties
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • Fawcett, Sen David
      • Conroy, Sen Stephen
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
      • Smith, Sen Dean
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Madigan, Sen John
      • Lines, Sen Susan
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • scrutiny of bills committee
      • report
        • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • regulations and ordinances committee
      • delegated legislation monitor
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • human rights committee
      • report
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • economics references committee
      • report
        • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
      • government response to report
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   committees
    • membership
      • Back, Sen Chris (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   bills
    • dairy produce amendment (dairy service levy poll) bill 2016, parliamentary entitlements amendment (injury compensation scheme) bill 2016
      • first reading
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • second reading
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • family law amendment (financial agreements and other measures) bill 2015
      • report of legislation committee
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • social services legislation amendment (family measures) bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • in committee
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • third reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • tax laws amendment (implementation of the common reporting standard) bill 2015
      • in committee
        • Reynolds, Sen Linda (The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN)
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • third reading
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
    • omnibus repeal day (autumn 2015) bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Brown, Sen Carol
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
      • in committee
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Brown, Sen Carol
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
        • Rice, Sen Janet
      • third reading
        • Birmingham, Sen Simon
    • omnibus repeal day (spring 2015) bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Brown, Sen Carol
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
  •   adjournment
    • Seselja, Sen Zed (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • indigenous affairs
      • Lindgren, Sen Joanna
    • mining
      • Dastyari, Sen Sam
    • commonwealth scientific and industrial research organisation
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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