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  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   statement by the president
    • parliament house: 30th anniversary
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • family assistance and child support legislation amendment (protecting children) bill 2018
      • in committee
        • CHAIR, The
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • division
        • Pratt, Sen Louise
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
        • CHAIR, The
        • division
      • third reading
        • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
    • home affairs and integrity agencies legislation amendment bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
      • second reading
        • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
  •   parliamentary representation
    • qualifications of senators
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Wong, Sen Penny
  •   bills
    • home affairs and integrity agencies legislation amendment bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • division
      • in committee
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • McKim, Sen Nicholas
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • division
      • third reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • investigation and prosecution measures bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Moore, Sen Claire
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • in committee
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Moore, Sen Claire
      • third reading
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • communications legislation amendment (regional and small publishers innovation fund) bill 2017
      • second reading
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
        • Griff, Sen Stirling
        • McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   statements by senators
    • Sterle, Sen Glenn (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • asylum seekers
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
    • tasmania: employment, end-of-life care
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
    • international day against homophobia, biphobia, intersexism and transphobia
      • Rice, Sen Janet
    • budget
      • Brockman, Sen Slade
    • workplace relations
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher
    • queensland: rural and regional services
      • Anning, Sen Fraser
    • national memorial service for fire and emergency services personnel, jdrf one ride, australian capital territory: blood donations, australian capital territory: youth advisory council
      • Seselja, Sen Zed
    • north, hon. justice anthony max, qc
      • Dodson, Sen Patrick
    • budget
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
  •   questions without notice
    • budget (Wong, Sen Penny)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • budget (Hume, Sen Jane)
    • budget (Moore, Sen Claire)
    • budget (Di Natale, Sen Richard)
    • budget (Colbeck, Sen Richard)
    • budget (Patrick, Sen Rex)
    • budget (O'Sullivan, Sen Barry)
    • food certification (Bernardi, Sen Cory)
    • budget (Watt, Sen Murray)
    • budget (Reynolds, Sen Linda)
    • budget (Cameron, Sen Doug)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • answers to questions
      • Carr, Sen Kim
      • Reynolds, Sen Linda
      • Moore, Sen Claire
      • Stoker, Sen Amanda
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
    • budget
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
  •   notices
    • presentation
      • Williams, Sen John
  •   committees
    • select committee into the political influence of donations
      • meeting
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   notices
    • presentation
  •   notices
    • postponement
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • division
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   motions
    • pensions and benefits
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • division
  •   notices
    • postponement
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
  •   motions
    • israel
      • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   committees
    • joint standing committee on foreign affairs, defence and trade
      • reporting date
        • Fawcett, Sen David
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   committees
    • reference
      • McGrath, Sen James
  •   motions
    • cancer
      • Bilyk, Sen Catryna
  •   documents
    • broadband
      • order for the production of documents
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   bills
    • criminal code and other legislation amendment (removing commonwealth restrictions on cannabis) bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
      • second reading
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
  •   motions
    • devlin, mr stuart, ao, cmg
      • Williams, Sen John
    • motor neurone disease awareness week
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   bills
    • defence amendment (sovereign naval shipbuilding) bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
      • second reading
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
  •   documents
    • murray-darling basin
      • order for the production of documents
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
  •   motions
    • maydays for eating disorders
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
    • workplace safety
      • Griff, Sen Stirling
    • international chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis awareness day
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   documents
    • questions on notice
      • order for the production of documents
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • McGrath, Sen James
    • questions on notice
      • order for the production of documents
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • McGrath, Sen James
  •   bills
    • treasury laws amendment (axe the tampon tax) bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Rice, Sen Janet
      • second reading
        • Rice, Sen Janet
  •   motions
    • housing affordability
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
      • McGrath, Sen James
    • world red cross and red crescent day
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   documents
    • questions on notice
      • order for the production of documents
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • McGrath, Sen James
  •   parliamentary representation
    • qualifications of senators
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   matters of public importance
    • budget
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
      • Fawcett, Sen David
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • Cameron, Sen Doug
      • Hume, Sen Jane
      • Siewert, Sen Rachel
      • Dodson, Sen Patrick
      • Macdonald, Sen Ian
  •   first speech
    • PRESIDENT, The
    • Storer, Sen Timothy
  •   matters of public importance
    • budget
      • Watt, Sen Murray
  •   documents
    • commonwealth ombudsman
      • consideration
        • Bartlett, Sen Andrew
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • Smith, Sen Dean
  •   committees
    • regulations and ordinances committee
      • delegated legislation monitor
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • scrutiny of bills committee
      • scrutiny digest
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • human rights committee
      • report
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • joint standing committee on treaties
      • report
        • Smith, Sen Dean
    • environment and communications legislation committee
      • government response to report
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • rural and regional affairs and transport references committee
      • membership
        • Williams, Sen John (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   bills
    • interstate road transport legislation (repeal) bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • interactive gambling amendment (lottery betting) bill 2018, protection of the sea legislation amendment bill 2018, statute update (autumn 2018) bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
    • migration amendment (skilling australians fund) bill 2018
      • returned from the house of representatives
  •   regulations and determinations
    • basin plan amendment (sdl adjustments) instrument 2017
      • disallowance
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Gallacher, Sen Alex
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • division
  •   bills
    • communications legislation amendment (regional and small publishers innovation fund) bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • division
      • in committee
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
  •   adjournment
    • Kitching, Sen Kimberley (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • livermore, mr claude charles 'charlie'
      • Williams, Sen John
    • budget
      • Brown, Sen Carol
    • banking and financial services
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
    • moora residential college
      • Reynolds, Sen Linda
    • veterans
      • Bartlett, Sen Andrew
    • sri lanka
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling
    • tabling

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