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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • constitutional recognition of atsip, foreign affairs, defence and trade joint committee
      • meeting
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • communications legislation amendment (sbs advertising flexibility and other measures) bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Conroy, Sen Stephen
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Macdonald, Sen Ian
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Singh, Sen Lisa
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
  •   questions without notice
    • asylum seekers (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • budget (Sinodinos, Sen Arthur)
    • national security (Carr, Sen Kim)
    • national security (Wright, Sen Penny)
    • asylum seekers (Back, Sen Chris)
    • housing affordability (McLucas, Sen Jan)
    • national disability insurance scheme (Johnston, Sen David)
    • infrastructure (Muir, Sen Ricky)
    • defence procurement (Conroy, Sen Stephen)
    • south australia: vocational education and training (Fawcett, Sen David)
    • cabinet (McAllister, Sen Jenny)
    • education (Canavan, Sen Matthew)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • answers to questions
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
      • Back, Sen Chris
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • national security
      • Wright, Sen Penny
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   committees
    • selection of bills committee
      • report
        • Bushby, Sen David
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   notices
    • postponement
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   committees
    • foreign affairs, defence and trade joint committee
      • meeting
        • Bushby, Sen David
  •   motions
    • clean energy
      • Wright, Sen Penny
      • Day, Sen Bob
  •   committees
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • reference
        • McEwen, Sen Anne
        • Brandis, Sen George
        • division
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • reference
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Ludlam, Sen Scott
        • division
  •   documents
    • australian customs service
      • order for the production of documents
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • division
    • telecommunications data retention
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • division
  •   committees
    • environment and communications legislation committee
      • reference
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
        • division
  •   motions
    • country of origin labelling
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
  •   matters of public importance
    • housing affordability
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
      • McLucas, Sen Jan
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • Sinodinos, Sen Arthur
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
      • Day, Sen Bob
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   petitions
    • child abuse
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • asylum seekers
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
  •   committees
    • rural and regional affairs and transport legislation committee
      • report
        • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • australian commission for law enforcement integrity committee
      • report
        • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • intelligence and security committee
      • report
        • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
    • public accounts and audit committee
      • report
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • public accounts and audit committee
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • law enforcement committee
      • report
        • Singh, Sen Lisa
  •   committees
    • report
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
    • public works committee
      • report
        • Smith, Sen Dean
      • government response to report
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • consideration
  •   bills
    • labor 2013-14 budget savings (measures no. 1) bill 2014
      • first reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • crimes legislation amendment (penalty unit) bill 2015, private health insurance (national joint replacement register levy) amendment bill 2015, social services legislation amendment (no. 2) bill 2015, superannuation guarantee (administration) amendment bill 2015
      • first reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • national health amendment (pharmaceutical benefits) bill 2015
      • first reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • private health insurance (prudential supervision) bill 2015, private health insurance (prudential supervision) (consequential amendments and transitional provisions) bill 2015, private health insurance supervisory levy imposition bill 2015, private health insurance (risk equalisation levy) amendment bill 2015, private health insurance (collapsed insurer levy) amendment bill 2015
      • first reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   committees
    • corporations and financial services committee
      • appointment
        • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • business services wage assessment tool payment scheme bill 2014
      • returned from the house of representatives
      • third reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   motions
    • disallowance of instrument
      • Rice, Sen Janet
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Cash, Sen Michaelia
      • Rice, Sen Janet
      • division
  •   bills
    • communications legislation amendment (sbs advertising flexibility and other measures) bill 2015
      • second reading
        • Canavan, Sen Matthew
  •   adjournment
    • Gallacher, Sen Alex (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • bring them home campaign
      • Peris, Sen Nova
    • illicit drugs
      • Xenophon, Sen Nick
    • kirner, ms joan elizabeth, ac
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
    • deaths in custody
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • employment
      • Muir, Sen Ricky
    • asylum seekers
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
    • hill, mr mark, oam
      • Fawcett, Sen David
    • workplace relations
      • Ludwig, Sen Joe
    • western australia: roads
      • Ludlam, Sen Scott
    • kingston beach surf life saving club, sense-t program
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • unicef australia young ambassadors
      • Moore, Sen Claire
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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