Business of the Senate / the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia

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Australia. Parliament. Senate
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Nq 328.94 AUS
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Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service
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2009, PP no. 5 of 2010
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Business of the Senate 1
BUSINESS OF THE SENATE 3 , 4
Contents 5
Section 1: Business conducted in the Senate 1.1 General statistics 7 , 9
1.2 Senate sittings 2009 11
1.3 Business conducted in the Senate 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17
Section 2: Legislation 2.1 Legislation statistics 19 , 21 , 22
2.2 Bills still before the Senate 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33
2.3 Second reading—Amendments moved 35 , 36
2.4 Committee of the whole—Consideration 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42
2.5 Adoption of committee report—Amendments moved 43
2.6 Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper 45 , 46 , 47 , 48
2.7 Amendments and requests—Disagreements 49 , 50
2.8 Bills, or provisions of bills, referred to committees 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64
Section 3: Other business 3.1 Notices of motion for disallowance 65 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71
3.2 Statements by the President 73 , 74
3.3 Ministerial statements 75 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80
3.4 Matters of public importance 81 , 82
3.5 Urgency motions 83
3.6 Motions agreed to 85 , 86 , 87 , 88 , 89 , 90 , 91
3.7 Condolence motions 93
3.8 Orders for the production of documents 95 , 96 , 97 , 98 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 104
3.9 Government responses to committee reports 105 , 106 , 107 , 108 , 109
3.10 Petitions 111 , 112
3.11 Questions 113
3.12 Attendance of senators 115
3.13 Attendance of senators in divisions 117
Appendix—Details of bills 119 , 120 , 121 , 122 , 123 , 124 , 125 , 126 , 127 , 128 , 129 , 130 , 131 , 132 , 133 , 134 , 135 , 136 , 137 , 138 , 139 , 140 , 141 , 142 , 143 , 144 , 145 , 146 , 147 , 148 , 149 , 150 , 151 , 152 , 153 , 154 , 155 , 156 , 157 , 158 , 159 , 160 , 161 , 162 , 163 , 164 , 165 , 166

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