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  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • joint standing committee on electoral matters
      • meeting
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   bills
    • high speed rail planning authority bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Farrell, Sen Don
        • Molan, Sen Jim
        • Rice, Sen Janet
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Seselja, Sen Zed
        • Ketter, Sen Christopher
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Fawcett, Sen David
    • treasury laws amendment (enterprise tax plan no. 2) bill 2017
      • Molan, Sen Jim
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • Wong, Sen Penny
      • Seselja, Sen Zed
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • Gichuhi, Sen Lucy
  •   ministerial arrangements
    • Cormann, Sen Mathias
  •   questions without notice
    • taxation (McAllister, Sen Jenny)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • energy (Duniam, Sen Jonathon)
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • apprenticeships (Watt, Sen Murray)
    • mining: mineral exploration (Brockman, Sen Slade)
    • forestry (Rice, Sen Janet)
    • pensions and benefits (O'Neill, Sen Deb)
    • middle east (Hanson, Sen Pauline)
    • defence (Molan, Sen Jim)
    • taxation (Singh, Sen Lisa)
    • indigenous affairs (Stoker, Sen Amanda)
    • visitor visa (McKim, Sen Nicholas)
    • south australia: defence procurement (Farrell, Sen Don)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • answers to questions
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
      • Abetz, Sen Eric
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
      • Williams, Sen John
      • McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri
    • forestry
      • Rice, Sen Janet
  •   business
    • leave of absence
      • Bushby, Sen David
    • leave of absence
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   notices
    • postponement
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
  •   committees
    • reporting date
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
    • education and employment references committee
      • reference
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • McGrath, Sen James
    • economics references committee
      • reference
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   motions
    • dowsett, professor gary
      • Williams, Sen John
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • McKim, Sen Nicholas
    • cambodia and myanmar: human rights
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
    • native title
      • Griff, Sen Stirling
    • dividend imputation
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
      • McGrath, Sen James
      • division
  •   notices
    • world autism awareness day
      • postponement
        • Griff, Sen Stirling
  •   motions
    • dividend imputation
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   matters of urgency
    • politics and sport
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
      • Burston, Sen Brian
      • Reynolds, Sen Linda
      • Watt, Sen Murray
      • Hume, Sen Jane
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
      • Paterson, Sen James
      • Sterle, Sen Glenn
  •   delegation reports
    • australian parliamentary delegation to greece and turkey
      • Fawcett, Sen David
  •   documents
    • department of agriculture and water resources
      • Brockman, Sen Slade
      • Colbeck, Sen Richard
    • murray-darling basin authority
      • Ketter, Sen Christopher
      • Colbeck, Sen Richard
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   ministerial statements
    • treaty between australia and the democratic republic of timor-leste establishing their maritime boundaries in the timor sea, comprehensive and progressive agreement for trans-pacific partnership, free trade agreement between australia and the republic of peru, framework agreement between the european union and its member states, of the one part, and australia, of the other part
      • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
  •   committees
    • membership
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • Fierravanti-Wells, Sen Concetta
  •   bills
    • social services legislation amendment (welfare reform) bill 2017
      • returned from the house of representatives
      • third reading
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
    • treasury laws amendment (junior minerals exploration incentive) bill 2017
      • returned from the house of representatives
      • third reading
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
  •   committees
    • constitutional recognition of atsip
      • membership
  •   bills
    • family law amendment (parenting management hearings) bill 2017
      • report of legislation committee
        • Fawcett, Sen David
    • national broadcasters legislation amendment (enhanced transparency) bill 2017
      • report of legislation committee
        • Fawcett, Sen David
    • treasury laws amendment (enterprise tax plan no. 2) bill 2017
      • second reading
        • Gichuhi, Sen Lucy
    • communications legislation amendment (online content services and other measures) bill 2017
      • second reading
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Griff, Sen Stirling
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Bartlett, Sen Andrew
        • Smith, Sen Dean
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • division
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
      • 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
        • 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
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Griff, Sen Stirling
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • O'Neill, Sen Deb
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
  •   adjournment
    • Williams, Sen John
    • fatality free friday
      • Gallacher, Sen Alex
    • western sahara
      • Rhiannon, Sen Lee
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

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