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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   statements
    • ministerial conduct
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
      • Kitching, Sen Kimberley
      • Carr, Sen Kim
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • earle haven retirement village
      • Colbeck, Sen Richard
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • Rice, Sen Janet
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • division
  •   bills
    • future drought fund bill 2019, future drought fund (consequential amendments) bill 2019
      • first reading
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • second reading
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
        • Watt, Sen Murray
  •   questions without notice
    • earle haven retirement village (Watt, Sen Murray)
    • australian defence force
      • Askew, Sen Wendy
      • procedural text
      • Askew, Sen Wendy
      • procedural text
      • Askew, Sen Wendy
      • procedural text
    • ministerial conduct (Kitching, Sen Kimberley)
    • media freedom (Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah)
    • drought (McMahon, Sen Sam)
    • superannuation (Gallagher, Sen Katy)
    • tourism (Chandler, Sen Claire)
    • apprenticeships (Griff, Sen Stirling)
    • pensions and benefits (Green, Sen Nita)
    • welfare reform (Brockman, Sen Slade)
    • great barrier reef: climate change (Waters, Sen Larissa)
    • minister for energy and emissions reduction (Wong, Sen Penny)
    • energy (McDonald, Sen Susan)
    • asylum seekers (Keneally, Sen Kristina)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • earle haven retirement village
      • Watt, Sen Murray
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
      • Brockman, Sen Slade
      • McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri
    • great barrier reef: climate change
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Smith, Sen Dean
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   notices
    • withdrawal
      • Lambie, Sen Jacqui
    • postponement
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
  •   committees
    • multi-jurisdictional management and execution of the murray-darling basin plan: select committee
      • appointment
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
  •   motions
    • higher education
      • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
  •   bills
    • human rights (parliamentary scrutiny) amendment (australian freedoms) bill 2019
      • first reading
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • second reading
        • Bernardi, Sen Cory
  •   committees
    • environment and communications references committee
      • reference
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
        • Gallagher, Sen Katy
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • division
  •   motions
    • law enforcement
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
      • Dodson, Sen Patrick
      • division
    • domestic and family violence
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
    • agriculture industry
      • McDonald, Sen Susan
      • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
  •   matters of public importance
    • human rights
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • Canavan, Sen Matthew
      • Watt, Sen Murray
      • Waters, Sen Larissa
      • Stoker, Sen Amanda
      • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   first speech
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • McDonald, Sen Susan
  •   first speech
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • Chandler, Sen Claire
  •   committees
    • environment and communications legislation committee, finance and public administration legislation committee, foreign affairs, defence and trade legislation committee
      • report
        • Smith, Sen Dean
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   committees
    • report
      • Smith, Sen Dean
    • economics legislation committee
      • report
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • law enforcement committee
      • report
        • Smith, Sen Dean
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • Smith, Sen Dean
  •   committees
    • register of senators' interests
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • community affairs references committee, community affairs legislation committee
      • additional information
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • intelligence and security joint committee
      • government response to report
        • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
        • Keneally, Sen Kristina
  •   documents
    • surveillance devices act 2004
      • consideration
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
    • department of home affairs
      • order for the production of documents
        • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
  •   committees
    • membership
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
      • Duniam, Sen Jonathon
  •   bills
    • future drought fund bill 2019, future drought fund (consequential amendments) bill 2019
      • second reading
        • Watt, Sen Murray
        • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
        • Brockman, Sen Slade
        • Waters, Sen Larissa
        • McDonald, Sen Susan
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   adjournment
    • Askew, Sen Wendy (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • federal election
      • Brockman, Sen Slade
    • schumacher, wilhelm bernard darrel
      • Ciccone, Sen Raff
    • china: human rights
      • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
    • road safety
      • Van, Sen David
    • australian defence force parliamentary program
      • Lines, Sen Susan
    • apprenticeships
      • Griff, Sen Stirling
    • rural australia
      • Roberts, Sen Malcolm
    • defence procurement
      • Patrick, Sen Rex
    • forestry
      • Rice, Sen Janet
    • workplace relations
      • Sheldon, Sen Anthony
    • pensions and benefits
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • disability services
      • Steele-John, Sen Jordon
    • naidoc week
      • McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri
    • freedom of religion
      • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta

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