Senate
6^th Parliament

8 October 1914 to 16 March 1917

8 October 1914

14,938 words

• PROCLAMATION
• SENATORS SWORN
  • New South Wales -
  • Albert Gardiner,
  • Sir Albert John Gould,
  • John Grant,
  • Edward Davis Millen,
  • David Watson
  • Queensland -
  • Myles Aloysius Ferricks,
  • Thomas Givens,
  • William John Ryott Maughan,
  • John Mullan,
  • James Charles Stewart,
  • Henry Turley
  • South Australia -
  • Robert Storrie Guthrie,
  • John Newland,
  • John Wallace Shannon,
  • William Harrison Story
  • Tasmania -
  • Thomas Jerome Kingston Bakhap,
  • James Guy,
  • John Henry Keating,
  • James Joseph Long,
  • Rudolph Keith Ready
  • Victoria -
  • Stephen Barker,
  • John Barnes,
  • Edward Findley,
  • Edward John Russell
  • Western Australia -
  • Richard Buzacott,
  • George Henderson,
  • Patrick Joseph Lynch,
  • Edward Needham,
  • George Foster Pearce
  • South Australia -
  • William Senior
  • Victoria -
  • Albert Edward Howarth Blakey
• ELECTION OF PRESIDENT
• GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SPEECH
• HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVER
  • Gentlemen,
• EUROPEAN WAR
• ASSENT TO BILLS
• HOME RULE FOR IRELAND
  • Memorandum to
  • The Honorable
  • Governor-General
  • Government House,
  • Melbourne, 1st July, 1914
  • Governor-General's Office,
  • Melbourne, 4th October, 1914. Memorandum to
  • The Honorable
  • Governor-General
  • Commonwealth of Australia
• No. 511
  • Sir,
  • Sir,
  • Governor-General,
  • Sir R. Munro Ferguson, G.C.M.G., &c., &c
• QUESTION
  • THE MINISTRY
• QUESTION
  • COMMONWEALTH BANK
• HOUR OF MEETING
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • WEATHER-WARNING STATIONS
• WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY PATENTS
• QUESTION
  • QUESTIONS ON NOTICE
• ADMINISTRATION OF OATH
• GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SPEECH : ADDRESS-IN-REPLY
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Order or Business

9 October 1914

14,931 words

• QUESTION
  • QUESTIONS' ON NOTICE
• PAPERS
• CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES
• SITTING DAYS
• SUSPENSION OF SITTINGS
• ADJOURNMENT ON FRIDAYS
• ORDER OF BUSINESS
• QUESTION
  • SESSIONAL COMMITTEES
• ROTATION OF SENATORS
• TEMPORARY CHAIRMEN OF COMMITTEES
• SUSPENSION OF SITTING
• GRANT TO BELGIUM
• SUSPENSION OF STANDING AND SESSIONAL ORDERS
• COMMONWEALTH CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION BILL
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 2)
• SUPPLY BILL (WORKS AND BUILDINGS) (No. 2)

14 October 1914

39,013 words

• QUESTION
  • GRANT TO BELGIUM
• QUESTION
  • WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY
• QUESTION
  • EUROPEAN WAR
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • TRAWLER ENDE A V OUR
• QUESTION
  • LAND VALUATIONS
• QUESTION
  • PYENGANA POST OFFICE
• QUESTION
  • COMMONWEALTH BANK
• QUESTION
  • FODDER DUTIES
• QUESTION
  • DISTRIBUTION OF FRUIT
• QUESTION
  • DELIVERY OF MAIL
• QUESTION
  • HENDERSON NAVAL BASE
• COAL FOR NAVY
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (LEGISLATIVE REFERENDUM) BILL
• QUESTION
  • GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SPEECH: ADDRESS-IN-REPLY
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Commonwealth Bank : Stamping of
  • Cheques - Queensland Expeditionary Force and Brisbane General Strike - Trawler " Endeavour

15 October 1914

12,110 words

• ASSENT TO BILLS
• COMMITTEE OF DISPUTED RETURNS AND QUALIFICATIONS
• QUESTION
  • RAID ON NEWSPAPER OFFICE
• QUESTION
  • PRINTING COMMITTEE
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • TRAWLER ENDEAVOUR.,
• QUESTION
  • MAIL CONTRACT: BOLGART
• QUESTION
  • RAILWAY SLEEPERS
• QUESTION
  • WAR MESSAGES
• QUESTION
  • PAY OF AREA OFFICERS
• QUESTION
  • AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE EXCHANGES
• GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SPEECH : ADDRESS-IN-REPLY
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Order of Business

16 October 1914

1,440 words

• QUESTION
  • RAILWAY SLEEPERS
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • INTER-STATE COMMISSION
• QUESTION
  • INTERNED GERMAN STEAMERS
• QUESTION
  • WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY
• BANKRUPTCY BILL
• PRINTING COMMITTEE
• POSTAL COMMISSION
• ADJOURNMENT

21 October 1914

7,084 words

• SENATOR SWORN
• QUESTION
  • LIGHTHOUSES
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• GOVERNOR-GENERAL' S SPEECH: PRESENTATION OF ADDRESSINREPLY
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • WIRELESS PLANTS
• QUESTION
  • UNEMPLOYED
• BANKRUPTCY BILL
  • Second Reading
• ADJOURNMENT
• QUESTION
  • TRADE AND THE WAR
• BELGIAN GRANT BILL

22 October 1914

20,494 words

• GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SPEECH: PRESENTATION OP ADDRESSINREPLY
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • LIGHTHOUSES ACT
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • TASMANIAN MAIL STEAMERS
• TELEGRAPH LINE
• QUESTION
  • CONSTRUCTION WORKS
• QUESTION
  • ELECTORAL OFFICERS: PAYMENTS
• QUESTION
  • COMPULSORY TRAINING : EXEMPTIONS
• QUESTION
  • NOTE ISSUE
• PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
• TRADING WITH THE ENEMY BILL
• JUDICIARY BILL
• CRIMES BILL
• BANKRUPTCY BILL
  • Second Reading
• ADJOURNMENT

23 October 1914

13,708 words

• QUESTION
  • PRECAUTIONS AGAINST SPYING
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • MAIL CONTRACT, BOLGART
• TREASON IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
  • Impeachment of State Servant
• QUESTION
  • PRODUCTION OF PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • TASMANIAN MAIL CONTRACT
• QUESTION
  • BRISBANE TRAMWAY STRIKE
• FLINDERS ISLAND
• TRADING WITH THE ENEMY BILL
• BANKRUPTCY BILL
• JUDICIARY BILL
  • Second Reading
• CRIMES BILL
  • Second Reading
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Order of Business

28 October 1914

35,759 words

• ASSENT TO BILLS
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • INTER-STATE COMMISSION
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY HORSES
• ELECTORAL OFFICERS
  • Divisions of Bass and Wilmot
• PAPERS
• PRESENTATION OF ADDRESSINREPLY
• JUDICIARY BILL
• CRIMES BILL
• WAR PRECAUTIONS BILL
  • Second Reading
• CRIMES BILL
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• CRIMES BILL

11 November 1914

29,557 words

• PRESENTATION OF ADDRESS-IN-REPLY
• R. M. FERGUSON,
  • Governor-General
  • Melbourne, 29th October, 1914
• ASSENT TO BILLS
• QUESTION
  • COCOS ISLAND NAVAL ENGAGEMENT
• QUESTION
  • NEW GUINEA
• QUESTION
  • WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY WORKS
• QUESTION
  • UNLOADING INTERNED BOATS
• QUESTION
  • TRANSMISSION OF NEWSPAPERS BY POST
• QUESTION
  • WAR NEWS
• EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
  • Vaccination - Canteens
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • HOLIDAY PRIVILEGES
• QUESTION
  • WIRELESS SYSTEM
• QUESTION
  • RAILWAY CONTRACTS
• QUESTION
  • NOTES AND SPECIE
• TELEPHONIC SERVICES
  • Unley : King Island
• QUESTION
  • BRENNAN MONO-RAIL
• QUESTION
  • NATURALIZATION OF GERMANS
• DEFENCE BILL
• BANKRUPTCY BILL
• ADJOURNMENT

12 November 1914

47,487 words

• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • UNLOADING OF PRIZE SHIPS
• QUESTION
  • DEFENCE OF ADELAIDE
• QUESTION
  • LETTER-CARRIERS' ASSOCIATION
• QUESTION
  • WERRIWA ELECTION
• QUESTION
  • NORTHERN TERRITORY
• PRISONERS OF WAR
• QUESTION
  • EXPORTATION OF WOOL
• QUESTION
  • DEFENCE DEPARTMENT - OVERTIME
• QUESTION
  • WAR BULLETINS
• QUESTION
  • TELEPHONE : KING ISLAND
• EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
  • Vaccination of Troops
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 3)
• SUPPLY BILL (WORKS AND BUILDINGS) (No. 3)
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 3)
• PATENTS, TRADE MARKS, AND DESIGNS BILL
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 3)
• QUESTION
  • CAPTURED GERMAN POSSESSIONS
• SUPPLY BILL (WORKS AND BUILDINGS) (No. 3)

13 November 1914

19,280 words

• QUESTION
  • LANDS ACQUISITION CASE
• QUESTION
  • MURRAY RIVER SCHEME
• QUESTION
  • PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS
• QUESTION
  • WIRELESS WORKS: GUARD
• DEFENCE BILL
  • Second Reading
• PATENTS, TRADE MARKS, AND DESIGNS BILL
  • Second Reading
• DEFENCE ACT
• PAPERS
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Order of Business - Government Preference to Unionists

18 November 1914

20,007 words

• PERSONAL EXPLANATION
• QUESTION
  • EXPORTATION OF YACCA GUM
• CAPTAIN HUGHES-ONSLOW
• QUESTION
  • GERMAN OFFICIALS AT RABAUL
• QUESTION
  • CAPTAIN EDWARD EDWARDS
• QUESTION
  • COMPULSORY TRAINING
• QUESTION
  • TRAWLER
• QUESTION
  • INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF
• QUESTION
  • FIRST EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
• QUESTION
  • POSTAL COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATIONS
• PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • INDIAN LOYALTY
• QUESTION
  • NORTHERN TERRITORY
• QUESTION
  • T.S.S. LOONGANA
• QUESTION
  • VACCINATION OF TROOPS
• QUESTION
  • BORES ON RAILWAY ROUTE
• NAVIGATION BILL
• WAR PENSIONS BILL
• DEFENCE BILL
  • Second Reading
• BANKRUPTCY BILL
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Military Raids - Captured German: Officers - Compulsory Training : Apprentices

19 November 1914

37,485 words

• QUESTION
  • TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ACT
• QUESTION
  • COLONEL PETHEBRIDGE
• QUESTION
  • TARIFF
• QUESTION
  • NORTHERN TERRITORY
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY STAFF CLERK
• QUESTION
  • MR. TEESDALE SMITH'S CONTRACTS
• QUESTION
  • CRUISER BRISBANE
• QUESTION
  • TELEPHONE RATES
• QUESTION
  • FIRST EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
• QUESTION
  • T.S.S. LOONGANA
• PATENTS, TRADE MARKS, AND DESIGNS BILL (No. 2)
• DEFENCE BILL
  • Second Reading
• NAVIGATION BILL
• ORDER OF BUSINESS
• DEFENCE BILL
• PAPER
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Order of Business - War Pensions

20 November 1914

21,828 words

• PAPER
• QUESTION
  • ADMIRAL PATEY
• QUESTION
  • NOTE ISSUE
• NORTHERN TERRITORY
  • Mining Companies : Subsidies
• DEFENCE BILL
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 3)
• SUPPLY BILL (WORKS AND BUILDINGS) (No. 3)

25 November 1914

42,895 words

• PATENTS, TRADE MARKS, AND DESIGNS BILL
• QUESTION
  • WHEAT CONTRACTS
• QUESTION
  • FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO STATES
• EUROPEAN WAR
  • Australian Assistance
• QUESTION
  • ADMINISTRATION OF NEW GUINEA
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • WAR REPORTS
• QUESTION
  • EMPLOYMENT OF GERMANS
• QUESTION
  • LOAD LINE
• PATENTS, TRADE MARKS AND DESIGNS BILL (No. 2)
• DEFENCE BILL
• ADJOURNMENT

26 November 1914

28,931 words

• QUESTION
  • MILITARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • TREATMENT OF GERMANS
• QUESTION
  • WHEAT CONTRACTS
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• PRINTING COMMITTEE
  • Barker
• QUESTION
  • MR. TEESDALE SMITH'S CONTRACTS
• QUESTION
  • PORT ADELAIDE POST OFFICE
• QUESTION
  • DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA
• QUESTION
  • FEDERAL TERRITORY
• CUSTOMS BILL
• DEFENCE BILL
• NAVIGATION BILL
  • Second Reading
• BANKRUPTCY BILL
• AMENDMENTS OF THE CONSTITUTION
  • Proposed Convention
• TRADING WITH THE ENEMY BILL (No. 2)

27 November 1914

12,778 words

• QUESTION
  • TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ACT
• EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
  • Sale of Intoxicants - Cigarettes
• QUESTION
  • HENDERSON NAVAL BASE
• QUESTION
  • PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS
• QUESTION
  • LOAD LINE FOR SHIPS
• CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION BILL (No. 2)
  • Second Reading
• DEFENCE BILL
• CUSTOMS BILL
• PRINTING COMMITTEE
  • Resolved -
• PAPER

2 December 1914

26,048 words

• QUESTION
  • TREATMENT OF ALIEN ENEMIES
• QUESTION
  • WHEAT CONTRACTS
• QUESTION
  • UNIFORM RAILWAY GAUGE
• QUESTION
  • RIFLE CLUBS
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • LIEUT.-COLONEL BRUCHE
• QUESTION
  • CABLE GUARD AT DARWIN
• QUESTION
  • MAP OF AUSTRALIA
• QUESTION
  • OODNADATTA TO KATHERINE RIVER RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • LAND VALUATIONS
• CUSTOMS BILL
• PAPERS
• DEFENCE BILL
  • Third Reading
• CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION BILL (No. 2)
  • Second Reading

3 December 1914

28,427 words

• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITION ARY FORCES
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • CAPTURED GERMAN POSSESSIONS
• QUESTION
  • LOAD-LINE FOR SHIPS
• QUESTION
  • WHEAT CONTRACTS
• QUESTION
  • H.M.A.S. BRISBANE
• QUESTION
  • FRANKLIN ELECTORAL ROLL
• QUESTION
  • TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION
• QUESTION
  • MAIL CONTRACTS : HORSE FEED
• MILITARY FORCES
  • Field Allowances
• QUESTION
  • LETTER CLEARANCES: HOBART
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY CAMPS
• PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE
• COMMONWEALTH CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION BILL
  • Second Reading
• NAVIGATION BILL
  • Second Reading
• ORDER OF BUSINESS
• THE BUDGET
  • H.M.A. Ships
  • H.M.A.S. Australia
  • H.M.A. S. Sydney
  • H.M.A.S. Melbourne
  • H.M.A.S. Encounter
  • H.M.A.S. Pioneer
  • H.M.A.S. Yarra
  • H.M.A.S. Parramatta
  • H.M.A.S. Warrego
  • H.M.A.S. Protector
• WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY
• ADJOURNMENT

4 December 1914

10,556 words

• QUESTION
  • NATURALIZED ALIENS
• QUESTION
  • WAR CORRESPONDENTS
• QUESTION
  • TROOPSHIPS
• QUESTION
  • TEN SHILLING NOTE
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • ELECTORAL ADMINISTRATION
• QUESTION
  • EUROPEAN WAR
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE
• NAVIGATION BILL

9 December 1914

893 words

• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT

10 December 1914

38,513 words

• PATENTS, TRADE MARKS AND DESIGNS BILL (No. 2)
• QUESTION
  • TEN SHILLING NOTE
• QUESTION
  • FALKLAND ISLANDS NAVAL ENGAGEMENT
• QUESTION
  • LETTER CLEARANCES: HOBART
• QUESTION
  • INTERNED STEAMER
• QUESTION
  • CRUISER BRISBANE
• QUESTION
  • NORTHERN TERRITORY
• TREATMENT OF ALIEN ENEMIES
• QUESTION
  • ELECTORAL ROLLS: TASMANIA
• QUESTION
  • FRIDAY SITTING
• QUESTION
  • ARBITRATION COURT
• PAPERS
• AUDITOR-GENERAL'S REPORT
• ASSENT TO BILLS
• QUESTION
  • FEDERAL CAPITAL
• EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
  • Railway Travelling - Appointment of Officers
• QUESTION
  • DEFENCE DEPARTMENT
• QUESTION
  • WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY: KING ISLAND
• QUESTION
  • STORM WARNINGS
• NAVIGATION BILL
• APPROPRIATION (WORKS AND BUILDINGS) BILL (1914-15)
  • Second Reading
• ADJOURNMENT

11 December 1914

31,988 words

• QUESTION
  • NOTICE OF QUESTIONS
• QUESTION
  • TARIFF
• QUESTION
  • FEDERAL CAPITAL
• NEW BUSINESS
• NAVIGATION BILL
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE
• APPROPRIATION (WORKS AND BUILDINGS) BILL
• TRADING WITH THE ENEMY BILL
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 4)
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Electoral Rolls - Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta Railway : Mechanics - Notice of Questions

15 December 1914

47,024 words

• QUESTION
  • TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION
• QUESTION
  • CINEMATOGRAPH AT LIVERPOOL CAMP
• QUESTION
  • PRESS PRIVILEGES: STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
• THE ROLL OF HONOUR
  • Givens
  • Bakhap
  • Buzacott
  • Long
  • Needham
  • Story
  • Burchell
  • Fleming
  • Foster, R. W
  • Mathews
  • Rodgers
  • Yates
  • Dear Sir,
  • Melbourne, 9th December, 1914
  • Dear Sirs,
  • Chairman of Gallery Committee
  • Melbourne, 10th December, 1914
  • The Federal Parliament House
  • Dear Sirs,
  • Chairman of Reporters' Gallery
  • Commonwealth of Australia
  • The Senate, Melbourne
  • Federal Parliament
  • Dear Sirs,
  • The Senate,
  • Melbourne, 11th December, 1914
  • Chairman, Press Gallery Committee,
  • Parliament House
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY MAPS
• QUESTION
  • NORTHERN TERRITORY
• QUESTION
  • WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • BRIGADE MAJORS
• PAPERS
• INVALID AND OLD-AGE PENSIONS APPROPRIATION BILL
• LAND TAX BILL.
  • Second Reading
• ASSENT TO BILLS
• LAND TAX ASSESSMENT BILL
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Flogging of Germans

16 December 1914

40,961 words

• QUESTION
  • NAVAL COLLEGE
• QUESTION
  • FLOGGING OF GERMANS
• QUESTION
  • GOLD CURRENCY: CHINESE
• QUESTION
  • TEMPORARY EMPLOYES
• QUESTION
  • CRUISER BRISBANE
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY MAPS
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • ROBBERY OF BANK NOTES
• QUESTION
  • PRESS PRIVILEGES
• QUESTION
  • NORTHERN TERRITORY
• QUESTION
  • QUARANTINE STATION, TOWNSVILLE
• FEDERAL CAPITAL
  • Designs : Monthly Reports
• QUESTION
  • CONSULTING ENGINEERS
• QUESTION
  • SMALL ARMS FACTORY
• QUESTION
  • PUBLIC WORKS
• QUESTION
  • NAVIGATION ACT
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• LAND TAX BILL
• LAND TAX ASSESSMENT BILL
  • Third Reading
• SUSPENSION OF SITTING
• QUESTION
  • THE BUDGET
• ESTATE DUTY BILL
  • Second Reading
• LAND TAX ASSESSMENT BILL
• PRINTING COMMITTEE
• QUESTION
  • THE BUDGET
• SUSPENSION OF SITTING
• ESTATE DUTY ASSESSMENT BILL
  • Second Reading
• TREASURY BILLS BILL
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Conduct of Business

17 December 1914

41,171 words

• QUESTION
  • EUROPEAN WAR
• QUESTION
  • COASTAL GUARD
• QUESTION
  • TEMPORARY EMPLOYES
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • QUARANTINE STATION: TOWNSVILLE
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALIAN ORES
• QUESTION
  • ARMAMENT ARTIFICERS
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • QUEANBEYAN WATER SUPPLY
• QUESTION
  • STATE INTERFERENCE WITH WHEAT CONTRACTS
• QUESTION
  • GOLD CURRENCY: CHINESE
• ESTATE DUTY ASSESSMENT BILL
• TREASURY BILLS BILL
• WAR LOAN BILL
• LOAN BILL (No. 2)
  • Second Reading
• LOAN BILL (KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY)
  • Second Reading
• WAR PENSIONS BILL
• SUSPENSION OF SITTING
• WAR PENSIONS BILL
  • Second Reading
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Inter-State Wheat Contracts - -Order of Business - Queanbeyan Water Supply - Federal Capital Designs - Military Maps

18 December 1914

25,007 words

• QUESTION
  • FEDERAL CAPITAL DESIGNS
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY CENSORSHIP
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • NORTHERN TERRITORY
• QUESTION
  • PICK AND SHOVEL MEN
• QUESTION
  • GOLD CURRENCY : CHINESE
• COMMONWEALTH BANK BILL
  • Second Reading
• AUSTRALIAN NOTES BILL
• COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE BILL
• DEFENCE BILL
• SPIRITS BILL
• IRON BOUNTY BILL
• ESTATE DUTY ASSESSMENT BILL
• TREASURY BILLS BILL
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
  • Date of Meeting of Senate
• DEFENCE BILL
• ADJOURNMENT

14 April 1915

8,167 words

• ASSENT TO BILLS
• PAPERS
• DEATH OF THE HON. J. A. ARTHUR
  • Lily A. Arthur
• QUESTION
  • GERMAN NEW GUINEA
• QUESTION
  • COMMUNICATION WITH THE ENEMY
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • LAUNCHING OF CRUISER BRISBANE
• QUESTION
  • NORTHERN TERRITORY : MACDONNELL RANGES
• QUESTION
  • MINISTERIAL STATEMENT: PAPER
• HOUR OF MEETING

15 April 1915

25,811 words

• QUESTION
  • YACCA GUM
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • POSTAL ROBBERIES
• QUESTION
  • QUARANTINE ADMINISTRATION
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • INTERNED GERMAN OFFICERS
• QUESTION
  • LIGHT DUES
• QUESTION
  • INTER-STATE TRADE IN WHEAT
• QUESTION
  • WIRELESS STATION, KING ISLAND
• QUESTION
  • TARIFF: MINING INDUSTRY
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• MINISTERIAL STATEMENT: PAPER
• ADJOURNMENT
  • King Island Wireless Communication

16 April 1915

21,417 words

• QUESTION
  • INTERNED GERMAN OFFICERS
• QUESTION
  • WIRELESS STATIONS
• QUESTION
  • CAPTAIN PAYNE
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • COMMONWEALTH RAILWAYS
• QUESTION
  • COCKATOO ISLAND DOCKYARD
• QUESTION
  • FRUIT EXPORT
• QUESTION
  • TELEPHONE INSTRUMENTS
• QUESTION
  • MINISTERIAL STATEMENT: PAPER
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 5)

21 April 1915

24,755 words

• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • PUBLIC SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • HORSE-BREEDING STATION
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • WIRELESS STATIONS
• QUESTION
  • QUESTIONS : DUTY ON RICE
• WAR PRECAUTIONS BILL (No. 2)
• INSURANCE BILL
• QUESTION
  • MINISTERIAL STATEMENT : PAPER
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Conduct of Business

22 April 1915

23,160 words

• SUPPLY BILL (No. 5)
• QUESTION
  • GERMAN NEW GUINEA
• QUESTION
  • TOBACCO TRUST
• QUESTION
  • CAPTAIN PAYNE
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY PROMOTIONS
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • YACCA GUM
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • PAPUA: OIL-FIELDS
• DEFENCE BILL (No. 2)
• WAR PRECAUTIONS BILL (No. 2)
  • Second Reading
• QUESTION
  • MINISTERIAL STATEMENT : PAPER
• IMPORTS STILL POURING IN
  • Customs Revenue Practically Normal
• QUESTION
  • ELECTRIC CABLES
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Production of Papers

23 April 1915

15,745 words

• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • PUBLIC SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • MAIL CONTRACTORS
• QUESTION
  • CLYDE ARMAMENT SHOPS
• QUESTION
  • EMPIRE DAY
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE
• DEFENCE BILL (No. 2)
  • Second Reading
• MINISTERIAL STATEMENT : PAPER
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Appointment of Military Officers : Captain Payne
  • Secretary,
  • Department of Defence,
  • Melbourne

29 April 1915

23,510 words

• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • COCKATOO ISLAND DOCKYARD
• DEFENCE BILL (No. 2)
• QUESTION
  • PUBLIC SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• PAPERS
• MINISTERIAL STATEMENT : PAPER
• QUESTION
  • AMENDMENTS OF THE CONSTITUTION
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Military Promotions : Captain Payne

30 April 1915

26,148 words

• QUESTION
  • THE EUROPEAN WAR
• QUESTION
  • PUBLIC SERVICE
• KALG OORLIE -PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• W. 0. ARCHIBALD,
  • Minister of State for Home Affairs
• RAILWAY FROM KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA
  • Construction : Contract for Tanks :
  • Cost of Earthworks: Mr. Teesdale Smith's Contract
• QUESTION
  • MAP OF AUSTRALIA
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • FRUIT EXPORT
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE
• WAR PRECAUTIONS BILL (No. 2)
• INSURANCE BILL
• JUDICIARY BILL (No. 2)
• HIGH COURT PROCEDURE BILL
• DEFENCE BILL (No. 2)
• JUDICIARY BILL (No. 2)
  • Second Reading
• HIGH COURT PROCEDURE BILL
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
  • Conduct of Business
• ADJOURNMENT

6 May 1915

25,363 words

• ASSENT TO BILLS
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • LOANS TO STATES AND COMMONWEALTH
• QUESTION
  • YACCA GUM
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE-PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • SMALL ARMS FACTORY, LITHGOW
• COLONIAL SUGAR REFINING COMPANY
  • Supplies of Sugar
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • LAND-OWNERS IN STATES
• QUESTION
  • CLOSING HOUR FOR HOTELS
• QUESTION
  • POSITION OF COAL MINERS
• QUESTION
  • NEWS CENSORSHIP
• QUESTION
  • FEDERAL TERRITORY
• QUESTION
  • MINISTERIAL STATEMENT : PAPER
• QUESTION
  • RESERVES OF TELEPHONE MATERIALS
• QUESTION
  • FEDERAL CAPITAL
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta Railway - The Colonial Sugar Refining Company: Supplies of Sugar

7 May 1915

9,006 words

• QUESTION
  • FIREMEN ON TROOPSHIP
• QUESTION
  • WIRELESS STATIONS
• LIGHTING OF CHAMBER
  • Rabaul: Red Cross Goods
• EXPORT OF FEMALE STOCK
• QUESTION
  • LETTER-CLEARING : LAUNCESTON
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • NOTE ISSUE
• QUESTION
  • INTER-STATE COMMISSION
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE
• CRIMES BILL (No. 2)
  • Second Reading
• PATENTS, TRADE MARKS, AND DESIGNS BILL (No. 3)
  • Second Reading
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Lighting and Heating of Senate Chamber

13 May 1915

38,369 words

• CHIMES BILL (No. 2)
• EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA
• QUESTION
  • MEETINGS OF GERMANS
• QUESTION
  • REPORTED SINKING OF AUSTRALIAN SUBMAKINE
• QUESTION
  • BREAK OF GAUGE
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• PRINTING COMMITTEE
  • Ready
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• PAPERS
• JERVIS BAY TERRITORY ACCEPTANCE BILL
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 6)
• ADJOURNMENT

14 May 1915

13,403 words

• ALIEN ENEMY CITIZENS
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • SHORTAGE OF SUGAR
• QUESTION
  • TEMPORARY EMPLOYES
• QUESTION
  • INTER-STATE TRADE IN WHEAT
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE
• PRINTING COMMITTEE
• PATENTS, TRADE MARKS, AND DESIGNS BILL (No. 3)
  • Second Reading
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 6)
• JERVIS BAY TERRITORY ACCEPTANCE BILL
  • Second Reading
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Melbourne, 14th May, 1915
  • Dear Sir,
  • Colin K. Colquhoun,
  • Manager

20 May 1915

10,755 words

• PATENTS, TRADE MARKS AND DESIGNS BILL (No. 3)
• QUESTION
  • THE VATICAN AND THE WAR
• QUESTION
  • RABAUL: RED CROSS MATERIAL
• PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES:
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • SMALL ARMS FACTORY, LITHGOW
• QUESTION
  • TEMPORARY EMPLOYES
• QUESTION
  • SHORTAGE OF SUGAR
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • OLD-AGE PENSIONS
• QUESTION
  • FRENCH RESERVISTS IN SYDNEY
• QUESTION
  • PANAMA COMMISSION
• JERVIS BAY TERRITORY ACCEPTANCE BILL
• INSURANCE BILL
  • Second Reading

21 May 1915

13,761 words

• QUESTION
  • DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL BRIDGES, C.M.G
• QUESTION
  • ITALY AND THE WAR
• QUESTION
  • LAUNCHING OF DERWENT AND WARREGO
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• PAPER
• QUESTION
  • TRAWLER ENDEAVOUR
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE
• ENEMY CONTRACTS ANNULMENT BILL
  • Second Reading
• SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATION BILL 1913-14
• SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATION (WORKS AND BUILDINGS) BILL 1913-1914
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT

27 May 1915

21,177 words

• ASSENT TO BILLS
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • DR. WADE
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY: STEEL CARS
• COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
• PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY PUNISHMENT
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • DELAY IN PUBLICATION OF WAR NEWS
• QUESTION
  • INTERNED ENEMY SUBJECTS
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
• QUESTION
  • COLONIAL AMMUNITION COMPANY
• INSURANCE BILL
  • Second Reading
• QUESTION
  • FEDERAL CAPITAL
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Coal Mining: Unemployment: Explosives : Testing Station

28 May 1915

6,352 words

• QUESTION
  • PRESS CENSORSHIP
• QUESTION
  • RIFLE CLUBS
• QUESTION
  • SMALL ARMS FACTORY
• QUESTION
  • POSTPONEMENT OF QUESTIONS
• QUESTION
  • DISMISSAL OF LINESMEN
• QUESTION
  • INTER-STATE TRADE IN WHEAT
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
  • Conduct of Business
• ADJOURNMENT

9 June 1915

38,848 words

• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • UNIFORM RAILWAY GAUGE
• QUESTION
  • POSTAL EMPLOYEES
• DEFENCE DEPARTMENT
  • Contracts
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • FUEL OIL FOR NAVY
• QUESTION
  • RATES OF WAGES
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 7)

10 June 1915

24,227 words

• QUESTION
  • LOSS OF SUBMAKINE AE2
• QUESTION
  • PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS
• QUESTION
  • PUBLIC SERVICE (ARBITRATION) ACT
• EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
  • Effectsof Deceased Soldiers - Number of Enlistments
• QUESTION
  • UNIFORMS AND LIQUOR ADVERTISEMENTS
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • COLONIAL AMMUNITION COMPANY
• QUESTION
  • HOME AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 7)
• INSURANCE BILL
  • Second Reading
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta Railway: Day Labour System

11 June 1915

27,871 words

• PERSONAL EXPLANATION
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 7)
• INSURANCE BILL
  • Second Reading
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Dear Sir,
  • Melbourne, 2nd November, 1914
  • Dear Sir,

17 June 1915

24,560 words

• SUPPLY BILL (No. 7)
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • EUROPEAN WAR
• PAPERS
• LIBRARY COMMITTEE'S REPORT
• SMALL ARMS FACTORY
• QUESTION
  • LAND TAX
• NEW SOUTH WALES
  • Agreement for Loan
• QUESTION
  • NORTHERN TERRITORY
• INSURANCE BILL
  • Second Reading
• SPIRITS BILL
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Party Pledges : Senator Bakhap - Expeditionary Forces : Boot Contracts - Land Tax: Answer to Question

18 June 1915

27,676 words

• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • MAIL CONTRACTORS : REBATES
• PAPERS
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 8)
• QUESTION
  • PAPER
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT

24 June 1915

43,994 words

• ABSENT. TO BILLS!
• QUESTION
  • SMALL ARMS FACTORY
• QUESTION
  • EUROPEAN WAR
• QUESTION
  • MUNITIONS COMMITTEE
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • UNIFORMSANDLIQUOR. ADVERTISEMENTS
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY CONTRACTS
• QUESTION
  • COLONIAL AMMUNITION COMPANY
• WAR PENSIONS BILL
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 1) . 1915-16
• SUPPLY(WORKS AND BUILDINGS) BILL (No. 1) 1915-16
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 1)1915-16
• LIGHTHOUSES BILL

25 June 1915

27,268 words

• QUESTION
  • CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION ACT
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • EXAMINATION SERVICE AT PORTS
• QUESTION
  • STEAM YACHT ADELE
• QUESTION
  • CONDUCT OF BUSINESS
• QUESTION
  • GERMAN PATENTS
• QUESTION
  • MAIL SERVICE : TASMANIA
• QUESTION
  • TELEPHONE CABLES: SYDNEY
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 1) 1915-16
• QUESTION
  • RETIREMENT OF THE ASSISTANT CLERK
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 1) 1915-16
• SUPPLY (WORKS AND BUILDINGS) BILL (No. 1) 1915-16
  • Second Reading
• LIGHTHOUSES BILL
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT

7 July 1915

26,223 words

• ASSENT TO BILLS
• QUESTION
  • LIVERPOOL CAMP
• ALBERT GARDINER
  • Lucy M. Watkins,
  • Assistant, Cardiff Public School
• QUESTION
  • TELEPHONE CABLES: SYDNEY
• PAPERS
• GOVERNMENT FREEZER : DARWIN
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION BILLS
• INSURANCE BILL
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Dear Senator Long,
  • G-. F. Pearce

8 July 1915

44,070 words

• QUESTION
  • MILITARY CENSORSHIP
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITION"ARY FORGES
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION BILLS
• PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• PAPER
• APPROPRIATION BILL 1914-15
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (TRADE AND COMMERCE) BILL
  • Second Reading
• QUESTION
  • CONDUCT OP THE WAR
• JERVIS BAY TERRITORY ACCEPTANCE BILL
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (TRADE AND COMMERCE) BILL
  • Second Reading
• SINKING OF THE S.S. LUSITANIA
  • Commonwealth of Australia
• No. 334
  • Governor-General, His Excellency,
  • The Right Honorable
  • Sir R. Munro Ferguson, G.C.M.G., &c, &c, &c
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (TRADE AND COMMERCE) BILL
  • Second Reading
• NEW PORTFOLIO
• MINISTERS OF STATE BILL
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (TRADE AND COMMERCE) BILL
  • Second Reading
• ADJOURNMENT

9 July 1915

25,126 words

• QUESTION
  • MR. E. P. RAMSAY
• QUESTION
  • SUGAR SUPPLY: DUTY
• MINISTERS OF STATE BILL
  • Second Reading
• ORDER OF BUSINESS
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (TRADE AND COMMERCE) BILL
  • Second Reading
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (CORPORATIONS) BILL
  • Second Reading
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (INDUSTRIAL MATTERS) BILL
  • Second Reading
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (TRUSTS) BILL
  • Second Reading
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (RAILWAY DISPUTES) BILL
  • Second Reading
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (NATIONALIZATION OF MONOPOLIES) BILL
  • Second Reading
• ADJOURNMENT

14 July 1915

41,540 words

• CALL OF THE SENATE
  • Later :
• PETITION
• ASSENT TO BILLS
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• THE MINISTRY
• QUESTION
  • DR. ERNST CARROLL
• QUESTION
  • FLANNEL FOE CONTRACTORS
• QUESTION
  • RAILWAY SLEEPERS
• PAPERS
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (TRADE AND COMMERCE) BILL
  • Third Reading
• CALL OF SENATE

15 July 1915

41,932 words

• EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
  • New Brigade: Reinforcements
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • MANUFACTURE OF MUNITIONS
• QUESTION
  • SUPPLY OF STATUTES
• QUESTION
  • DESERTERS: MILITARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • TRADING WITH THE ENEMY
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (TRADE AND COMMERCE) BILL
  • Third Reading
• PRIVATE BUSINESS
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (TRADE AND COMMERCE) BILL
  • Third Reading
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (CORPORATIONS) BILL
  • Third Reading
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (INDUSTRIAL MATTERS) BILL
  • Third Reading
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (TRUSTS) BILL
  • Third Reading
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (RAILWAY DISPUTES) BILL
  • Third Reading
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (NATIONALIZATION OF MONOPOLIES) BILL
  • Third Reading
• POSTPONEMENT' OF .BUSINESS
• EUROPEAN WAR
  • Compulsory Military Service
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Appointment of Officers - Soldiers' Correspondence - Order of Business

16 July 1915

24,812 words

• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITION"ARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY COMMISSIONS
• QUESTION
  • MAIL CONTRACTORS
• QUESTION
  • LETTER CARRIERS
• QUESTION
  • CONSTABLE CAMPBELL
• APPROPRIATION BILL 1914-1915
• PAPER

21 July 1915

38,515 words

• QUESTION
  • MANUFACTURE OF MUNITIONS
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • PUBLIC SERVICE APPOINTMENTS
• ADDEESS BY THE REV. J. ADAMS
• QUESTION
  • NURSING WOUNDED SOLDIERS
• QUESTION
  • DESERTERS FROM THE KYARRA
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALIA'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE WAR
• QUESTION
  • MATERIAL FOR ELECTRIC CABLES
• QUESTION
  • FEDERAL PUBLIC WORKS IN QUEENSLAND
• QUESTION
  • QUEENSLAND BARRISTERS RETAINED FOR THE COMMONWEALTH
• QUESTION
  • QUEENSLAND : PRESS CENSORS
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • PORT AUGUSTA WATER SUPPLY
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY ENCAMPMENTS
• NEW BUSINESS
• COMPULSORY VOTING BILL
• WAR CENSUS BILL
  • Second Reading
• ADJOURNMENT

22 July 1915

48,961 words

• QUESTION
  • MANUFACTURE OF MUNITIONS
• QUESTION
  • INTER-STATE COMMISSION
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • WAR COMMITTEE
• QUESTION
  • WOUNDED SOLDIERS
• QUESTION
  • CROOKWELL MAIL SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • COMMONWEALTH BANK, QUEENSLAND : OVERTIME
• QUESTION
  • PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA. RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • DISTRIBUTION OF STATUTES AND REGULATIONS
• PRINTING COMMITTEE
• WAR CENSUS BILL
• QUESTION
  • WAR CENSUS
• WAR CENSUS
  • Date Signature
• WAR LOAN BILL (No. 1)
  • First Reading
  • Second Reading
• A BILL
• QUESTION
  • AN ACT
• PAPER
• WAR LOAN BILL (No. 2), UNITED KINGDOM
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Recruiting

23 July 1915

21,095 words

• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • PRICE OF SUGAR IN" TASMANIA
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • FORM OF QUESTIONS
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY TRANSPORTS
• BALFOUR POST OFFICE
• WAR LOAN BILL (No. 1)
  • Second Reading

28 July 1915

42,530 words

• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALIA DAY
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • CASE OF SOLLY BURVILL
• QUESTION
  • CRUISER BRISBANE
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • HOME AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
• WAR LOAN BILL (No. 2) (UNITED KINGDOM)
  • Second Reading
• LOAN (KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY) BILL
  • Second Reading
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Conduct of Business : Appropriation Bill - Nurses' Outfit - Broadmeadows : Casual Labourers - Expeditionary Forces : Supply of Information to Relatives

29 July 1915

37,057 words

• ASSENT TO BILLS
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • MAIL SERVICE: CROOKWELL
• QUESTION
  • HORSES FOR DEFENCE DEPARTMENT
• QUESTION
  • LOAN FROM UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
• QUESTION
  • SUPPLY OP SUGAR
• QUESTION
  • NORTHERN TERRITORY
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE
• APPROPRIATION BILL 1914-15
  • Second Reading
• PRINTING COMMITTEE'S REPORT
• APPROPRIATION BILL, 1914-1.5
• UNSYMPATHETIC
• PAPERS
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Expeditionary Forces : State Percentages of Enlistments : Allotment or Army Medical Work, Brisbane Patagonian Immigrants - War Taxation - Transports for Wheat

4 August 1915

14,172 words

• ASSENT TO BILLS
• EUROPEAN WAR
  • Anniversary of Declaration
• QUESTION
  • WAR TAXATION
• QUESTION
  • RECRUITINGINSYDNEY
• QUESTION
  • NURSES' OUTFIT
• QUESTION
  • POST OFFICE, MOUNT BALFOUR
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • GERMAN PATENTS
• QUESTION
  • WHEAT EXPORT
• QUESTION
  • FRUIT EXPORT: TRANSPORTS
• PAPERS
• CONDUCT OF BUSINESS
  • Standing Order 68
• ESTIMATES AND BUDGETPAPERS, 1914-15
• INSURANCE BILL
• WAR PENSIONS BILL (No. 2)
  • Second Reading

5 August 1915

29,890 words

• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• WAR CENSUS BILL
• QUESTION
  • WAR LOAN
• QUESTION
  • INTIMIDATION OF MRS. JACKA
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • WHEAT EXPORT
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY MEDICAL OFFICERS, BRISBANE
• INSCRIBED STOCK BILL
• TREASURY BILLS BILL (No. 2)
• OFFICERS' COMPENSATION BILL
• WAR PENSIONS BILL (No. 2)
  • Second Reading,
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Case of Gomes Jenkins

12 August 1915

39,568 words

• ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECLARATION OF WAR
• QUESTION
  • FOODSTUFFS FOR TRANSPORTS
• QUESTION
  • RECRUITING IN NEW SOUTH WALES
• QUESTION
  • CERTIFICATES FOR REJECTED VOLUNTEERS
• QUESTION
  • CASE OP GOMER JENKINS
• QUESTION
  • SALE OF RED CROSS GOODS
• QUESTION
  • POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS IN EGYPT
• QUESTION
  • RAILWAY PASSES FOR RETURNED WOUNDED SOLDIERS
• QUESTION
  • MASSEURS FOR EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • WET CANTEENS
• QUESTION
  • LEAVE FOR RECRUITS
• QUESTION
  • ENOGGERA MILITARY CAMP
• QUESTION
  • CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS
• QUESTION
  • SMALL ARMS FACTORY
• QUESTION
  • SOLDIERS' LEAVE PRIOR TO EMBARKATION
• QUESTION
  • BRITISH RESERVISTS' PENSION RIGHTS
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • NORTHERN TERRITORY STEAM-SHIP SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • WAR LOAN
• QUESTION
  • PURCHASE OF REMOUNTS
• INSCRIBED STOCK BILL
  • Second Reading
• COMPULSORY VOTING BILL
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Nurses' Outfit

13 August 1915

24,890 words

• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITION ARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • MANUFACTURE OF MUNITIONS
• QUESTION
  • FRESH AND FROZEN MEAT
• QUESTION
  • BRITISH RESERVISTS' PENSION RIGHTS
• COMPULSORY VOTING BILL
  • Second Reading
• TREASURY-BILLS BILL (No. 2)
  • Second Reading
• OFFICERS' COMPENSATION BILL
  • Second Reading
• PAPER
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Liverpool Camp - Continental Rubber Company

18 August 1915

21,747 words

• ASSENT TO BILLS
• QUESTION
  • WAR CENSUS ACT
• QUESTION
  • LAUNCHING OF THE TORRENS
• QUESTION
  • RETURNED SOLDIERS
• QUESTION
  • MILITIA OFFICERS AND THE WAR
• QUESTION
  • PURCHASE OF REMOUNTS
• QUESTION
  • POSTAL DEPARTMENT: ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES BRANCH
• QUESTION
  • SOLDIERS' CORRESPONDENCE
• QUESTION
  • REPORT OP LAND TAX COMMISSIONER
• QUESTION
  • MENINGITIS
• QUESTION
  • ELECTORAL OFFICE
• QUESTION
  • CHARTS: GEODETIC SURVEY
• STANDING ORDER SUSPENDED
• QUESTION
  • SMALL ARMS FACTORY, CANBERRA
• PAPERS
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Continental Tyke Company

19 August 1915

41,182 words

• QUESTION
  • COMMONWEALTH ADVERTISEMENTS
• SUPPLY BILL
• QUESTION
  • LAND TAX: REPORT
• PANAMA EXPOSITION
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • WAR CENSUS
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALIAN FRUIT: LONDON
• QUESTION
  • TASMANIAN MAIL CONTRACT
• QUESTION
  • SEAMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT
• WAR CENSUS ACT
  • Statutory Rule, No. 138
• QUESTION
  • POST-OFFICE AT MT. BALFOUR
• EUROPEAN WAR
  • Compulsory Military Service
• QUESTION
  • SMALL ARMS FACTORY, CANBERRA
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Expeditionary Forces : Pay of Tasmanian Recruits

20 August 1915

26,623 words

• QUESTION
  • SINKING OE THE ARABIC
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY CAMPS : TASMANIA
• QUESTION
  • LOAN FUNDS
• QUESTION
  • TASMANIAN MAIL CONTRACT
• QUESTION
  • MR. ATLEE HUNT
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• SMALL ARMS FACTORY, CANBERRA
  • Royal Exchange, 2nd August, 1915
  • Yours, &c,
• PAPERS
• ADJOURNMENT

25 August 1915

24,745 words

• CATERER'S CONTRACT
• QUESTION
  • PAY OF TASMANIAN TROOPS
• QUESTION
  • RETURNED WOUNDED SOLDIERS
• AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL SERVICES
• QUESTION
  • EFFECTS OF DECEASED SOLDIERS
• QUESTION
  • WAR OFFENCES
• QUESTION
  • RED CROSS GOODS
• QUESTION
  • CAMP SANITATION
• QUESTION
  • ENLISTMENT
• QUESTION
  • SOLDIERS' CORRESPONDENCE
• LIVERPOOL CAMP
  • Mr. Justice Rich's Report
• QUESTION
  • DEFENCE ACT
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • MILITIA OFFICERS AND THE WAR
• QUESTION
  • PURCHASE OF REMOUNTS
• QUESTION
  • PURCHASES OF FODDER
• QUESTION
  • RECRUITING ADVERTISEMENTS
• QUESTION
  • VACCINATION AND INOCULATION OF TROOPS
• QUESTION
  • IMPORTATIONS OF TEA
• QUESTION
  • POSTAL RETRENCHMENT: INCOME TAX OFFICE
• EXPENDITURE ON WORKS
  • Department of Home Affairs
  • Department of Postmaster-General
  • Department of Defence
  • Department of Trade and Customs
• COMPULSORY VOTING BILL
  • Second Reading
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Order of Business

26 August 1915

16,685 words

• ABSENCE OF THE PRESIDENT
• QUESTION
  • PANAMA EXPOSITION
• QUESTION
  • RED CROSS GOODS
• QUESTION
  • CONTINENTAL TYRE COMPANY
• QUESTION
  • EFFECTS OF DECEASED SOLDIERS
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY CAMPS
• QUESTION
  • RECRUITING
• LIVERPOOL CAMP INQUIRY
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL SERVICES
• QUESTION
  • THE DARDANELLES
• PAPER
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • LETTER-CARRIERS : FODDER
• QUESTION
  • GERMAN PATENTS
• QUESTION
  • HOME AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
• QUESTION
  • COMMONWEALTH ADVERTISING
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE-FREMANTLE RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • DEFENCE DEPARTMENT
• TARIFF
  • Products of Territories: Cornsacks
• QUESTION
  • EXPORT OF TIN ORE
• QUESTION
  • WOOLLEN MILLS: WAGES
• COMPULSORY VOTING BILL
• BALFOUR POST OFFICE: SELECT COMMITTEE
• SUPPLY (WORKS AND BUILDINGS) BILL (No. 2), 1915-16
  • Second Reading
• INSURANCE BILL

27 August 1915

10,191 words

• PAPER
  • Public Service Act 1902-1913-
• WAR PRECAUTIONS BILL (No. 3)
• NEW BUSINESS
• CALL OF SENATE
• WAR PRECAUTIONS BILL (No. 3)
  • Second Reading
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• INSURANCE BILL
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (SENATORS' TERM OF SERVICE) BILL
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Returned Wounded and Invalided Soldiers : Advance Payments : Shipboard Attendance : Sale or Red Cross Goods

31 August 1915

48,469 words

• QUESTION
  • ENLISTMENT
• QUESTION
  • TRAINEES FOR NURSING
• THERMITE PROCESS
• QUESTION
  • CONDUIT WORKERS' PAY
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • LIEUTENANT A. T. PATTERSON
• QUESTION
  • DR. RAMSAY SMITH
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE
• WAR PRECAUTIONS BILL (No. 3)
  • Second Reading
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 2), 1915-16
• WAR PENSIONS BILL (No. 2)
• WAR CENSUS (POSTAL MATTER) BILL
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT

1 September 1915

72,554 words

• QUESTION
  • COMMONWEALTH BANK
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • K A LGO ORLIE -PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • PANAMA EXPOSITION
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 2), 1915-16
  • Second Reading
• OFFICERS' COMPENSATION BILL
• WAR. CENSUS (POSTAL MATTER) BILL
  • Second Reading
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (SENATORS' TERM OF SERVICE) BILL
  • Second Reading
• DISTINGUISHED VISITOR
• PAPERS
• INSURANCE BILL
• SUGAR PURCHASE 'BILL
• COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE BILL
  • Second Reading
• WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY BILL
  • Second Reading
• INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT BILL
  • Second Reading
• HOUR OF MEETING
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Income Tax Assessment Bill - Conduct of Business

2 September 1915

18,094 words

• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION BILL
• QUESTION
  • LAUNCHING OF DESTROYER TORRENS
• CALL OF SENATE
• INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT BILL
  • Second Reading
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (SENATORS' TERM OF SERVICE) BILL
• PAPERS

9 September 1915

42,928 words

• ASSENT TO BILLS
• QUESTION
  • APPOINTMENT OF DR. CARTY SALMON
• CALL OF THE SENATE
  • Absence of Senator Bakhap
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • TREATMENT OF MEN ENLISTED
• QUESTION
  • HAREFIELD HOSPITAL
• QUESTION
  • RECALL OF MEDICAL OFFICERS
• QUESTION
  • PATRIOTIC FUNDS
• QUESTION
  • LIVERPOOL CAMP
• QUESTION
  • DISTRICT COMMANDS
• QUESTION
  • DECEASED SOLDIERS' EFFECTS
• QUESTION
  • TASMANIAN CAMPS
• QUESTION
  • WAR CENSUS
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • LAUNCHING CEREMONIES
• MILITARY ENCAMPMENT SITE, HAMILTON
• QUESTION
  • ARMY MEDICAL OFFICERS
• INCOME TAX BILL
• REFERENDUM (CONSTITUTION ALTERATION) BILL
• INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT BILL
  • Second Reading
• CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION BILL
• INCOME TAX BILL
  • Second Reading
• THE SCHEDULES
• FIRST SCHEDULE
• SECOND SCHEDULE
  • Rate of Taxupon Income Derivedfrom Property
• QUESTION
  • THIRD SCHEDULE
• CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION BILL
  • Second Reading
• REFERENDUM (CONSTITUTION ALTERATION) BILL
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Panama Exposition Commission
  • Melbourne, 8th September, 1915
  • Dear Senator Gardiner,

10 September 1915

25,407 words

• QUESTION
  • RETURNED SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS
• CASE OF GUNNER PERRY
  • Colonel Dr. Cuscaden. P.M.O.. President
  • Major Dr. Wilkinson
  • Major Dr. W. E. Bird } Members
  • R.E. Williams, Colonel,
  • Acting Commandant, 3rd M.D
• QUESTION
  • RECEPTION OF RETURNED SOLDIERS
• PAPER
• QUESTION
  • BREEDING OF HORSES
• QUESTION
  • RAILWAY SURVEYS
• INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT BILL
• WAR PRECAUTIONS BILL (No. 3)
• QUESTION
  • WORKMEN AT BROADMEADOWS
• BALLARAT CAMP
• QUESTION
  • YACCA GUM
• QUESTION
  • MUNITIONS FACTORY, TASMANIA
• QUESTION
  • LEETON POST-OFFICE
• QUESTION
  • TREATMENT OF ENEMY SUBJECTS
• QUESTION
  • WAR CENSUS
• QUESTION
  • CONTINENTAL TYRE COMPANY
• LEAVE. OF ABSENCE
• PUBLIC SERVICE BILL
• COMPULSORY VOTING BILL
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
  • Wednesday, 27th October
• SUSPENSION OF SITTING
• FREIGHT ARRANGEMENTS BILL
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Travelling Concessions for Returned Soldiers - Enoggeba Camp : Trunk Telephone Communication - Continental Tyre Company - Appointment of Medical Officers : Dr. Carty Salmon - War Census

27 October 1915

2,772 words

• ASSENT TO BILLS
• QUESTION
  • NEW MINISTRY
• THE WAR
  • Tomy People -
  • George,R.I
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALIAN ARMY MEDICAL CORPS
• QUESTION
  • CASE OF LIEUTENANT HENERIE
• QUESTION
  • WORKS EXPENDITURE
• EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY STAFFS
• QUESTION
  • DEFENCE CONTRACTS
• ADJOURNMENT

28 October 1915

15,028 words

• QUESTION
  • REFERENDUMS
• QUESTION
  • WHEAT FREIGHTS
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY STAFFS
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • COMMONWEALTH ADVERTISING
• QUESTION
  • MR. ATLEE HUNT
• QUESTION
  • ENEMY FIRM: WOOL BUYING
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALIAN FRUIT
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • INCOME TAX ENVELOPES
• CONDUCT OF BUSINESS
• FIELD ARTILLERY CAMP, ENOGGERA
• QUARANTINE BILL
  • Second Reading
• COCKATOO ISLAND DOCKYARD
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• ADJOURNMENT

3 November 1915

11,592 words

• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • EXPENDITURE ON WORKS
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • RECRUITING
• QUESTION
  • DISLOYAL CARTOONS
• QUESTION
  • MURRAY WATERS AGREEMENT
• QUESTION
  • FIJI AND THE COMMONWEALTH
• QUESTION
  • CLAREMONT CAMP, TASMANIA
• QUESTION
  • TRANSPORT OF WHEAT
• VICTORIA BARRACKS, MELBOURNE
• IRON BOUNTY BILL (No. 2)
  • Second Reading
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Business of Session

4 November 1915

36,096 words

• QUESTION
  • MILITARY CAMP AT NEWCASTLE
• PRINTING COMMITTEE
• RETURN OF MEN IN CAMPS
• CUSTOMS HOUSE, SYDNEY
• SUPPLY (WORKS AND BUILDINGS) BILL (No. 3), 1915-16
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 3) 1915-16
• RIVER MURRAY WATERS BILL
• QUARANTINE BILL

5 November 1915

14,640 words

• QUESTION
  • NEWCASTLE CAMP
• QUESTION
  • CLAREMONT CAMP
• QUESTION
  • ELECTORAL RIGHTS OF SOLDIERS
• AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE EXCHANGES
• QUESTION
  • BEDS FOR THE BRISBANE
• BALFOUR POST OFFICE
• PRINTING COMMITTEE
• RETURN OF MEN IN CAMP
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 3) 1915-16
• RIVER MURRAY WATERS BILL
  • Second Reading
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 3) 1915-16
• PAPERS
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Order of Business: Referenda Proposals

10 November 1915

51,810 words

• QUESTION
  • FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE STATES
• EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
  • Pay of Public Servants Enlisting - Postal Service
• QUESTION
  • TRANSPORT AND SALE OF WHEAT
• PAPERS
• MEDICAL OFFICERS, CLAREMONT CAMP
• QUESTION
  • DR. RAMSAY SMITH
• QUESTION
  • TARIFF
• NEW BUSINESS
• RIVER MURRAY WATERS BILL
  • Second Reading
• WAR LOAN BILL (No. 3)
• INCOME TAX BILL (No. 2)
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 3) 1915-16
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Orderof Business

11 November 1915

38,210 words

• MINISTERIAL STATEMENT
  • Later -
• QUESTION
  • ARSENAL, CANBERRA
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • NAVAL COURT MARTIAL
• QUESTION
  • MUNITIONS FACTORY AT BEACONSFIELD
• QUESTION
  • FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE STATES
• QUESTION
  • FRUIT CROP
• QUESTION
  • GERMAN AGENT
• QUESTION
  • WIRELESS SYSTEMS: INQUIRY
• QUESTION
  • GILGANDRA RECRUITS MARCH
• PAPERS
• WAR LOAN BILL (No. 3)
  • Second Reading
• REFERENDUM (CONSTITUTION ALTERATION) BILL (No. 2)
• INCOME TAX BILL (No. 2)
  • Second Reading
• REFERENDUM (CONSTITUTION ALTERATION) BILL (No. 2)
  • Second Reading
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 4) 1915-16
• SUPPLY (WORKS AND BUILDINGS) BILL (No. 4) 1915-16

12 November 1915

99,213 words

• QUESTION
  • SITE OP ARSENAL AT CANBERRA
• QUESTION
  • FREEHOLD ESTATES
• OFFICERS' COMPENSATION BILL
• INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT BILL
  • Second Reading
• QUESTION
  • SUPPLY (WORKS AND BUILDINGS) (No.. 4) 1915-16
• OFFICER'S COMPENSATION BILL
  • Second Reading
• PAPER
• PRIVILEGE
  • Newspaper Report
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT BILL
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE
• ADJOURNMENT

9 May 1916

4,715 words

• ASSENT TO BILLS
• MINISTERIAL STATEMENT
• PAPERS
• CIRCULATION OF BILLS
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • VALUES OF FREEHOLD ESTATES

10 May 1916

35,891 words

• QUESTION
  • PROTECTION OF EFFECTS OF SOLDIERS' DEPENDANTS
• QUESTION
  • VALUES OF FREEHOLD ESTATES
• QUESTION
  • INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM
• PAPERS
• S.S. AURORA
• THE BUDGET
• COMMONWEALTH CEMENT WORKS
• QUESTION
  • UNAUTHORIZED WEARING OF UNIFORMS
• QUESTION
  • CIVIL RIGHTS OF SOLDIERS
• QUESTION
  • ROSS'S MAGAZINE
• QUESTION
  • TASMANIAN MAIL CONTRACT
• QUESTION
  • ADJUSTMENT OF PRICES: TASMANIA
• QUESTION
  • ENLISTMENT OF YOUNG MEN
• QUESTION
  • COURTS MARTIAL APPEALS
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• COMMISSION ON WAR LOANS
• WAR PRECAUTIONS BILL (No. 4)
• AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS' REPATRIATION FUND BILL
• COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE BILL (1916.)
• ACTS INTERPRETATION BILL
• PATENTS ACT (PARTIAL SUSPENSION) BILL
• WAR CENSUS BILL (1916)
• RULES PUBLICATION BILL
• POST AND TELEGRAPH BILL
• CUSTOMS BILL (1916)
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 5) 1915-16
• SUPPLY (WORKS AND BUILDINGS) BILL (No. 5) 1915-16
• NEW BUSINESS
• QUESTION
  • THE WAR

11 May 1916

26,791 words

• QUESTION
  • TASMANIA AND THE WHEAT POOL
• QUESTION
  • FEDERAL CAPITAL DIRECTOR
• QUESTION
  • POSTAL ADDRESS IN FRANCE OF AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS
• QUESTION
  • COURTS MARTIAL APPEALS
• STATIONERY, PRINTING, AND ADVERTISING ACCOUNTS
• QUESTION
  • MONETARY LIABILITIESOF SOLDIERS
• QUESTION
  • APPOINTMENT OF MR. BUTLER
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • RENTS FOR PUBLIC OFFICES
• QUESTION
  • THE WAR
• THE BUDGET
• WAR PRECAUTIONS BILL (1916)
  • Second Reading
• AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS' REPATRIATION FUND BILL
  • Second Reading
• ADVERTISING THE COMMONWEALTH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
• AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS' REPATRIATION FUND BILL
• PATENTS ACT (PARTIAL SUSPENSION) BILL
  • Second Reading
• WAR CENSUS BILL 1916
  • Second Reading
• RULES PUBLICATION BILL
  • Second Reading

12 May 1916

4,020 words

• QUESTION
  • CASUALTY LISTS
• QUESTION
  • SEPARATE PEACE PROPOSALS
• QUESTION
  • QUESTIONS
• QUESTION
  • CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT
• QUESTION
  • BOUNTY ON KEROSENE
• QUESTION
  • EIGHT HOUR DAY IN BRISBANE
• PAPERS
• AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS' REPATRIATION FUND BILL
• PATENTS ACT (PARTIAL SUSPENSION) BILL
• WAR CENSUS BILL (No. 3)
• RULES PUBLICATION BILL
  • Second Reading
• ACTS INTERPRETATION BILL
  • Second Reading
• POST AND TELEGRAPH BILL
  • Second Reading
• COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE BILL
• CUSTOMS BILL (No. 2)
• ADJOURNMENT

17 May 1916

3,239 words

• ASSENT TO BILLS
• QUESTION
  • MORTGAGES BY SOLDIERS
• ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
• PAPERS
• WHEAT SCHEME
• AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE
  • Appointmentsfrom Physical Training Staff - Saluting - Allotmentsof Pay
• CUSTOMS HOUSE, SYDNEY
• IRISH REBELLION
• THIRD READINGS
• ADJOURNMENT

18 May 1916

7,381 words

• QUESTION
  • HOME AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT- ROYAL COMMISSION
• QUESTION
  • BULGARIANS
• PRINTING COMMITTEE
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • PUBLIC SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • LIGHTHOUSE-KEEPERS
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE
• QUESTION
  • WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT
• TRADING WITH THE ENEMY BILL
• COMMERCE (TRADE DESCRIPTIONS) BILL
• GOVERNMENT IMPORTATIONS
• QUESTION
  • NAME OF FEDERAL CAPITAL

19 May 1916

19,077 words

• QUESTION
  • PRICE OF MEAT
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • BUSINESS OF THE SENATE
• QUESTION
  • INTER-STATE COMMISSION
• QUESTION
  • PRICE OF WHEAT IN TASMANIA
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Price of Wheat
  • Mr. President,
• QUESTION
  • GENERAL POST-OFFICE, ADELAIDE
• QUESTION
  • CANBERRA SEWERAGE SCHEME
• LANDS ACQUISITION BILL
• PRINTING COMMITTEE
• TRADING WITH THE ENEMY BILL (No. 3)
• COMMERCE (TRADE DESCRIPTIONS) BILL
  • Second Reading
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT

22 May 1916

66,939 words

• QUESTION
  • CASUALTY LISTS
• QUESTION
  • ENGAGEMENT OF MR. OLIVER
• QUESTION
  • EXPORT OF COAL
• QUESTION
  • DELAY IN DELIVERY OF MAILS FOR SOLDIERS
• QUESTION
  • APPEALS FROM COURTS MARTIAL
• PAPERS
• TRADING WITH THE ENEMY BILL
• APPROPRIATION BILL 1915-16
• APPROPRIATION (WORKS AND BUILDINGS) BILL 1915-16
• WAR LOAN BILL (UNITED KINGDOM) (No. 3)
• STATES LOAN BILL
• WAR LOAN BILL (No. 3)
  • Second Reading
• WAR LOAN (UNITED KINGDOM) BILL (No. 4)
• COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE (ACTING COMMISSIONER) BILL
• LANDS ACQUISITION BILL
• HOUR OF MEETING
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Sentences of Courts Martial - Payment for Wheat

23 May 1916

18,664 words

• QUESTION
  • STEEL HELMETS
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALIAN NURSES IN FRANCE
• QUESTION
  • FEDERAL CAPITAL
• PAPERS
• PERSONAL EXPLANATION
• THIRD READINGS
  • War Loan Bill (United Kingdom) No. 3
  • States Loan Bill
• REPRESENTATION BILL
• WAR PENSIONS BILL (No. 3)
  • Second Reading
• AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS' REPATRIATION FUND BILL
• BILLS FROM HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
• INVALID AND OLD-AGE PENSIONS APPROPRIATION BILL
• WAR PRECAUTIONS BILL (No. 4)
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 1) 1916-17
  • Second Reading
• PEARCE
• SUPPLY (WORKS AND BUILDINGS) BILL (No. 1) 1916-17
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO SENATORS
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Mr. Hughes - Referenda Proposals - Publication of Statutes

30 August 1916

4,658 words

• ASSENT TO BILLS
• QUESTION
  • MINERS' BATTALION
• QUESTION
  • FIVE SHILLING NOTES
• QUESTION
  • WOLFRAM AND MOLYBDENITE
• QUESTION
  • INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
• QUESTION
  • WHEAT POOL
• QUESTION
  • WHEAT TRANSPORT
• QUESTION
  • CENSORSHIP
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY OFFICERS
• QUESTION
  • PORT DARWIN ARBITRATION COURT
• QUESTION
  • FEDERAL AND STATE ROLLS
• QUESTION
  • HOME AFFAIRS INQUIRY
• SUSPENSION OF SITTING
• QUESTION
  • MINISTERIAL WAR POLICY
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• PAPERS
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Secret Session

1 September 1916

10,444 words

• QUESTION
  • PRESS CENSORSHIP
• QUESTION
  • DEPARTURESFROM COMMONWEALTH
• PAPERS
• CUSTOMS HOUSE, SYDNEY. - WATER SUPPLY, FLINDERS NAVAL BASE
• SENATORS' GALLERY INHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
• QUESTION
  • FOOD ON TRANSPORTS
• QUESTION
  • INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
• QUESTION
  • NORTHERN TERRITORY INQUIRY
• QUESTION
  • RED CROSS FUNDS
• QUESTION
  • CENSORS IN TASMANIA
• QUESTION
  • RAND WICK MILITARY HOSPITAL
• QUESTION
  • MINERS' BATTALION
• QUESTION
  • INCOMEAND LAND TAX SCHEDULES
• QUESTION
  • CENSORS AT PORT DARWIN
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • POST-OFFICE MOTOR CARS AT BRISBANE
• QUESTION
  • TRADING IN WAR DECORATIONS
• QUESTION
  • FEDERAL CAPITAL
• QUESTION
  • RECRUITING SERGEANTS AND POLITICS
• QUESTION
  • SUGAR SUPPLIES FROM QUEENSLAND
• QUESTION
  • PAPUAN OIL INDUSTRY
• LIGHTHOUSE-KEEPERS
• QUESTION
  • MINISTERIAL WAR POLICY

6 September 1916

2,145 words

• QUESTION
  • REGULATION OF INTERSTATE FREIGHTS
• QUESTION
  • POST-OFFICE MOTOR CARS: BRISBANE
• QUESTION
  • SUGAR INDUSTRY
• QUESTION
  • AGENCY FOR COMMONWEALTH SHIPS
• QUESTION
  • WHEAT POOL
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• QUESTION
  • SENATORS' GALLERY IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • BOUNTY ON CRUDE OIL
• QUESTION
  • WEALTH CENSUS
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • COCKBURN SOUND DOCK

13 September 1916

17,169 words

• QUESTION
  • CENSORSHIP OF PRESS
• QUESTION
  • COST OF SOLDIERS
• QUESTION
  • FRENCH SOLDIERS AT GALLIPOLI AND SALONIKA
• QUESTION
  • INVALIDED SOLDIERS
• PAPERS
• COMMONWEALTH STORES AND SUPPLIES, STATIONERY, PRINTING, AND ADVERTISING
• QUESTION
  • WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT
• QUESTION
  • ARBITRATION COURT DELAYS
• QUESTION
  • RECRUITING CAMPAIGN
• QUESTION
  • VOTING AT REFERENDUM
• QUESTION
  • APPOINTMENT OF MR. OLIVER
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
• QUESTION
  • STEAMER ROTOMAHANA
• QUESTION
  • DEFENCE ACT
• QUESTION
  • DUNTROON OFFICERS' TRAINING SCHOOL
• QUESTION
  • LAUNCESTON RIFLE RANGE
• QUESTION
  • COMMONWEALTH CLOTHING FACTORY
• QUESTION
  • CONSCRIPTION REFERENDUM
• ORDER OF THE DAY DISCHARGED
• QUESTION
  • MINISTERIAL WAR POLICY
• ADJOURNMENT

14 September 1916

14,828 words

• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • UNIFORMS FOR TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES
• QUESTION
  • RECRUITING POSTERS
• QUESTION
  • REMOVAL OF KING ISLAND WIRELESS STATION
• QUESTION
  • ELECTORAL
• QUESTION
  • ARGUS AND MR. JUSTICE HIGGINS
• QUESTION
  • FINES AT BENDIGO MILITARY CAMP
• QUESTION
  • LAND VALUES
• QUESTION
  • STATISTICIAN'S OFFICE
• OFFICERS EMPLOYED ON HOME SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • PORTFOLIO OF TRADE AND CUSTOMS
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 2) 1916-17
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT

15 September 1916

1,369 words

• QUESTION
  • COMMONWEALTH MAKINE SUPERINTENDENT
• QUESTION
  • FEDERAL CAPITAL
• QUESTION
  • CONSCRIPTION REFERENDUM
• PAPERS
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• QUESTION
  • VOLUNTEERS REJECTED
• QUESTION
  • CENSORSHIP OF IRISH NEWS
• QUESTION
  • CENSORSHIP OF PRESS
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Instructions to Censors

21 September 1916

42,191 words

• SUPPLY BILL (No. 2) (1916-17)
• QUESTION
  • POST AND TELEGRAPH OFFICERS' AWARD
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• PRINTING COMMITTEE
  • Senior
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • RANDWICK MILITARY HOSPITAL
• QUESTION
  • BROKEN HILL
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY UNIFORMS
• QUESTION
  • DOMINION EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • MAKINE SUPERINTENDENT:
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY STAFF CLERKS
• QUESTION
  • ALLIED ARMIES' MILITARY PAY
• EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
  • Discharge of G. T. Currie
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY SERVICE
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Military Service Referendum : Signing of Press Articles

22 September 1916

118,186 words

• QUESTION
  • BENDIGO CAMP
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY UNIFORMS
• PRINTING COMMITTEE'S REPORT
• QUESTION
  • COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY SEARCHES
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY SERVICE OF ALLIES
• MILITARY SERVICE REFERENDUM BILL
  • Second Reading
• QUESTION
  • GRAVE CHARGES
• ADJOURNMENT

27 September 1916

16,237 words

• QUESTION
  • SENATOR. BAKHAP
• QUESTION
  • INTRODUCTION OF MALTESE
• QUESTION
  • COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE
• PAPERS
• PINE CREEK TO BITTER SPRINGS RAILWAY EXTENSION
• QUESTION
  • PUBLIC SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • SINGLE MEN OF MILITARY AGE
• QUESTION
  • HOME SERVICE CLERKS
• QUESTION
  • FINANCIAL STATEMENT
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Financial Statement - Northern Territory : Administration: Suggested Royal Commission - Censorship of Broken Hill News - Transports : Wireless News Service
  • Australian Military Forces - 3rd Military District
  • Censorship Office, G.P.O.. Melbourne,
  • Francis S. Newell, Lieut.-Col., Censor

28 September 1916

9,699 words

• QUESTION
  • COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • EXEMPTIONS UNDER THE VOLUNTARY SYSTEM
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY SEARCHES
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION TO THE UNITEDSTATES OF AMERICA
• QUESTION
  • MEAT ASA NECESSARY COMMODITY
• QUESTION
  • COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALASIAN COASTAL TRADE
• QUESTION
  • MARTIAL LAW IN IRELAND
• QUESTION
  • THE PRIME MINISTER AND HOME RULE
• SOLICITOR-GENERAL BILL
  • Second Reading
• SUSPENSION OF SITTING
• MILITARY SERVICE REFERENDUM BILL
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Department of Defence,
  • Melbourne, 22nd September, 1916
  • Dear Sir,
  • Fitzroy, Melbourne, 27th September, 1916
  • Dear Sir,
  • Hon. Secretary
  • Facts to Face
  • Socialist Party of Victoria,
  • Melbourne, 22nd September, 1916
  • The Censorship

29 September 1916

11,451 words

• PERSONAL EXPLANATION
• QUESTION
  • COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • ENTERTAINMENTS TAX
• QUESTION
  • ALLIED SUBJECTS IN AUSTRALIA
• QUESTION
  • S.S.S TRA THENDRICK
• QUESTION
  • A.I.F. NEWS GAZETTE
• QUESTION
  • NATIONAL REFERENDUM COMMITTEES
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALIAN COASTAL TRADE
• QUESTION
  • SUGAR INDUSTRY
• QUESTION
  • PRICE OF MEAT
• QUESTION
  • HOME AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
• QUESTION
  • INCOME AND LAND TAX RETURNS
• SUPPLY (WORKS AND BUILDINGS) BILL (No. 2) 1916-17
  • Second Reading
• SUSPENSION OF SITTING
• ESTATE DUTY ASSESSMENT BILL
• INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT BILL
• LAND TAX ASSESSMENT BILL
• SUSPENSION OF SITTING
• INVALID AND OLD-AGE PENSIONS BILL
  • Second Reading
• PAPERS
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
  • Compulsory Military Service : Proclamation
  • Ayes ... ... ... 8
  • Noes ... ... ... 7
  • Majority ... ... 1
  • Ayes ... ... ... 8
  • Noes ... ... ... 7
  • Resolved -
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Wireless News for Transports - National Referendum Committees - Censorship: Broken Hill: Western Australia

3 October 1916

60,166 words

• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
  • Ballarat, Tuesday
  • Bendigo, Tuesday
• QUESTION
  • COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE REFERENDUM
• QUESTION
  • SOLDIERS AND WAR LOAN INVESTMENTS
• QUESTION
  • ASIATIC LABOUR
• QUESTION
  • JAPANESE SADDLES
• QUESTION
  • COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • MARIBYRNONG CAMP
• QUESTION
  • IMPRISONMENT OF SOLDIERS
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE
• PAPERS
• ADJOURNMENT

29 November 1916

3,951 words

• ASSENT TO BILLS
• PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• MINISTERIAL STATEMENT
  • New Ministry: War Policy
  • Prime Minister and Attorney-General. - The Right Honorable William Morris Hughes
  • Postmaster-General. - The Honorable William Webster
  • Treasurer. -The Honorable Alexander Poynton
  • Minister of State for Trade and Customs. - The Honorable William Oliver Archibald
  • Minister of State for Home Affairs. - The Honorable Frederick William Bamford
  • Minister for Defence. - Defence, Prime Minister, and Navy
• LABOUR OPPOSITION
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • DISTURBANCE OF PUBLIC MEETINGS
• QUESTION
  • COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE PROCLAMATION
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS IN EGYPT
• QUESTION
  • SALE OF AUSTRALIAN WOOL CLIP
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY CAMPS
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE REFERENDUM
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Order of Business - New Ministry - Labour Opposition

30 November 1916

11,111 words

• QUESTION
  • MILITARY TRAINING CAMPS
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS IN EGYPT
• QUESTION
  • UNITED STATES INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
• QUESTION
  • PAY OF TRANSFERRED SOLDIERS
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • ARBITRATION COURT
• QUESTION
  • COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • SALE OF WOOL AND SKINS
• QUESTION
  • ELECTRIC CABLES
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (TRADE AND COMMERCE) BILL
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (CORPORATIONS) BILL (No. 2)
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (NATIONALIZATION OF MONOPOLIES) BILL (No. 2)
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (INDUSTRIAL MATTERS) BILL
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (TRUSTS) BILL (No. 2)
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (RAILWAY DISPUTES) BILL
• NAME OP FEDERAL CAPITAL
• MINISTERIAL STATEMENT
  • New Ministry: War Policy
• ADJOURNMENT

1 December 1916

24,280 words

• QUESTION
  • ARBITRATION COURT
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY SERVICE . REFERENDUM
• QUESTION
  • PATRIOTIC FUNDS
• KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • PUBLIC WORKS
• QUESTION
  • MUNITION WORKERS
• QUESTION
  • COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • WOOL CLIP
• QUESTION
  • HOME AFFAIRS COMMISSION
• MINISTERIAL STATEMENT
  • New Ministry: Wah Policy
  • Ministerial [1 December, 1916.] Statement
• PAPERS
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Land Values

6 December 1916

36,846 words

• PETITION
• PERSONAL EXPLANATION
• QUESTION
  • DISTURBANCES OF PUBLIC MEETINGS
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • PURCHASE OF WOLFRAM
• QUESTION
  • ELECTRIC CABLES
• QUESTION
  • SPEECH BY MR. E. E. KEEP
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • PAY OF TRANSFERRED SOLDIERS
• WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT
  • Statutory Rule 273 of 1916
• WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT
  • Statutory Rule No. 240 of 1916
• MINISTERIAL STATEMENT
  • New Ministry : War Policy
  • Section 9 Votes
  • Hackney Wick
  • November 13
• QUESTION
  • SECTION OF SCANDAL
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Supply Bill : Sittings of Senate

7 December 1916

42,935 words

• PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY. FORCES
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • DISPOSAL OF METALS
• QUESTION
  • HOME AFFAIRS INQUIRY
• QUESTION
  • TONNAGE FOR COAL
• QUESTION
  • KATHERINE TO BITTER SPRINGS RAILWAY
• FEDERAL CAPITAL
  • Sewerage and Water Supply
• QUESTION
  • FREE RAILWAY PASSES
• QUESTION
  • TASMANIAN MAIL SERVICE
• SUPPLY OF POWER
• ENGLISH CONTRACTS FOR SUPPLIES FOR AUSTRALIAN TROOPS
• WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT
  • Statutory Rule 204: Censorship
• REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916
  • War Precautions Regulations 1915 - Regulation 28aa - Amendment
  • Governor-General
  • Minister of State for Defence
  • Amendment
  • Startling Figures Specially Recommended to Conscriptionist Enthusiasts
  • Assistant Censor
  • Anglesea Barracks,
  • Hobart, 21.10.16
  • The Editor, Daily Post
  • Sir,
  • General Staff
• RUSSIA'S APPEAL
  • Editor, Daily Post,
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Council of Women - Queensland Waterside Workers - The National Labour Party - Settlement of Coal Strike

8 December 1916

25,114 words

• QUESTION
  • FREE TICKETS AND PASSES
• PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • NOTICE OF QUESTIONS
• QUESTION
  • PRICES FOR WOLFRAM
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY SERVICE REFERENDUM
• MINISTERIAL STATEMENT
  • New Ministry: War Policy
  • No. 1501 Alic G. Anderson, " C " Company 19th Battalion, S.I.P
  • Darlinghurst Detention Barracks, 7th July, 1916
  • Private E. Bernberg, 1134
  • Private F. Evans, No. 1925
  • Sir,
  • D Company, 17th Battalion
  • H.M.T. Seang-Bee,
  • Sirs,
  • Arthur Henbury
  • Darlinghurst Detention Barracks. 7th June, 1916
  • Sir,
  • No. 615, 20th Battalion, 5th . Infantry. Brigade
  • Sir,
  • No. 1225, Pte. F. Purkiss, 1st Battalion, A.I.F.,
  • Darlinghurst M.P
  • Darlinghurst Detention Barracks. 7th June, 1916
  • Sir,
  • Darlinghurst Detention Barracks. 6th June, 1916
  • Sir,
  • Darlinghurst Detention Barracks
  • Sir,
  • Assistant Minister for Defence-,
  • Melbourne
  • Dear Sir,
  • Dear- Sir,
  • Department' of Defence,
  • Melbourne,. 11th July, 1916
  • Dear. Sir,
  • Acting Secretary
  • Department of Defence,,
  • Melbourne, 12th July, 1916
  • Dear Sir,
  • Acting Secretary

13 December 1916

44,322 words

• PERSONAL EXPLANATION
  • Tasmanian Recruiting Committee
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY SERVICE REFERENDUM
• QUESTION
  • HOME DEFENCE PROCLAMATION
• QUESTION
  • FREE RAILWAY PASSES
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • COAL MINERS' HOURS
• PRICES FOR MINERALS
• QUESTION
  • PRESS CENSORS
• PAPERS
• CONSTITUTIONAL ALTERATION (TRADE AND COMMERCE) BILL
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (CORPORATIONS) BILL (No. 2)
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (NATIONALIZATION OF MONOPOLIES) BILL (No. 2)
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (INDUSTRIAL MATTERS) BILL
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (TRUSTS) BILL (No. 2)
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (RAILWAY DISPUTES) BILL
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 3) 1916-17
• ADJOURNMENT

14 December 1916

118,505 words

• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • HOME SERVICE PROCLAMATION
• QUESTION
  • THE WOOL CLIP
• CANBERRA CITY RAILWAY AND ORNAMENTAL WATERS
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • CRUISER BRISBANE
• QUESTION
  • COMFORTS TO SOLDIERS
• QUESTION
  • WIRELESS CHAIN
• QUESTION
  • MERCANTILE MAKINE
• SUSPENSIONOF STANDING ORDER
  • New Business
• VALUE OF FREEHOLD ESTATES IN COMMONWEALTH
• PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
  • Appointment of New Member
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 3) 1916-17
• QUESTION
  • MANIFESTO TO AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS
• SUPPLY (WORKS AND BUILDINGS) BILL (No. 3) 1916-17
  • Second Reading
• QUESTION
  • NORTHERN TERRITORY: ROYAL COMMISSION
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (TRADE AND COMMERCE) BILL,
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (CORPORATIONS) BILL (No. 2)
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (NATIONALIZATION OF MONOPOLIES) BILL (No. 2)
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (INDUSTRIAL MATTERS) BILL
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (TRUSTS) BILL (No. 2)
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (RAILWAY DISPUTES) BILL (No. 2)
• QUESTION
  • ELECTRIC CABLES
• UNIMPROVED LAND VALUE TAXATION
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 3) 1916-17
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 3) 1916-17 (No. 2)
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• ADJOURNMENT
  • State of Business - Free Railway Passes - Hours of Sitting - Sentences Under Military Service Proclamation - War Precautions Act

16 December 1916

13,196 words

• QUESTION
  • MILITARY SERVICE PROCLAMATION"- REGULATIONS
• PERSONAL EXPLANATION
• MILITARY SERVICE PROCLAMATION
• QUESTION
  • GILCHRIST INQUIRY
• QUESTION
  • USE OP WORD " ANZAC
• QUESTION
  • PRICES FOR MINERALS
• NAVY DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES : PROCLAMATION
• QUESTION
  • CLASSIFICATION OF POST OFFICES
• QUESTION
  • FIXATION OF PRICES
• PRINTING COMMITTEE
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE
• MINISTERIAL STATEMENT
  • New Ministry: War Policy
  • Ordered -
• INSURANCE BILL
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Dear Senator Long,

18 December 1916

31,553 words

• QUESTION
  • CLASSIFICATION OF POSTMASTERS
• ASSENT TO BILLS
• QUESTION
  • CASE OF D. L. GILCHRIST
• HANSARD REPORTS
• QUESTION
  • STEAM-SHIP FARES
• IMPERIAL OFFICERS COMMANDING AUSTRALIAN TROOPS
• QUESTION
  • UNEMPLOYEDRETURNED SOLDIERS
• QUESTION
  • PRIVATE DONALD JONES
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALIANS IN COMMONWEALTH SHIPPING SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • PROFITS OF COAL MINING COMPANIES
• PAPER
• ENTERTAINMENTS TAX BILL
  • Second Reading
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Unemployed Military Officers -
  • Adjournment:. [18 December, 1916.] Adjournment1. 10079

19 December 1916

19,736 words

• QUESTION
  • MANIFESTO TO THE ANZACS
• QUESTION
  • THE CENSORSHIP
• QUESTION
  • PERMANENT GUARD
• ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
• CHARGES BY MR. GILCHRIST
• HOME SERVICE PROCLAMATION
• CIVILIAN PRISONERS OF WAR
• UNIMPROVED LAND VALUE TAXATION
• UNLAWFUL ASSOCIATIONS BILL
• DAYLIGHT SAVING BILL
• INCOME TAX BILL (No. 3)
• SUSPENSION OF SITTING
• ENTERTAINMENTS TAX ASSESSMENT BILL
• ENTERTAINMENTS TAX BILL
• SUSPENSION OF SITTING
• INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT BILL
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• PAPER
• ENTERTAINMENTS TAX ASSESSMENT BILL
• ADJOURNMENT

20 December 1916

19,753 words

• CORNS ACKS
• QUESTION
  • TASMANIAN WHEAT
• INCOMETAX ASSESSMENT BILL
• INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT BILL
• PAPERS
• VALEDICTORY
  • Retirement of Mr. C. B. Boydell
  • Melbourne, 14th December, 1916. Dear Mr. President,
• INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT BILL
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• ADJOURNMENT

8 February 1917

16,542 words

• ASSENT TO BILLS
• QUESTION
  • GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S MESSAGES
• QUESTION
  • CANBERRA CITY RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • HOME AFFAIRS ROYAL COMMISSION
• QUESTION
  • ELECTORAL ENROLMENT
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • ISSUE OF PASSPORTS
• QUESTION
  • SITTINGS OF THE SENATE
• QUESTION
  • UNEMPLOYMENT
• QUESTION
  • DEFENCE DEPARTMENT,
• QUESTION
  • WHEAT BOARD
• QUESTION
  • TASMANIAN WHEAT SUPPLY
• QUESTION
  • UNIFORM ELECTORAL ROLLS
• PAPERS
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Scottsdale, Tasmania, 2nd February, 1917
  • Senator Bakhap,
  • Federal Parliament House, Victoria
  • Dear Sir,
  • Jas.W.Gofton
  • Mrs. J. W. Gofton,
  • Rose Villa,
  • Scottsdale, Tasmania
  • Dear Madam,

9 February 1917

23,900 words

• CLERK OF THE SENATE
  • Retirement of Mr. C. B. Boydell
• QUESTION
  • WHEAT BOARD
• QUESTION
  • WAR LOAN
• QUESTION
  • REINFORCEMENTS
• IMPERIAL CONFERENCE
• PAPUAN OIL FIELDS
• QUESTION
  • NEW TELEPHONE EXCHANGE, SYDNEY
• QUESTION
  • HOME AFFAIRS ROYAL COMMISSION
• QUESTION
  • NEW MINISTRY
• PAPER
  • Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905 - Regulations Amended, &c. - Statutory Rules 1917, No. 15
• QUESTION
  • GENERAL ELECTION
• QUESTION
  • NAVAL BASES
• QUESTION
  • IMPERIAL CONFERENCE
• NEW BUSINESS
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 4) 1916-17
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• AD JOURNMENT
  • Warloan

13 February 1917

47,767 words

• QUESTION
  • COMMONWEALTH WHEAT BOARD
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY PUNISHMENTS
• QUESTION
  • SOLDIERS' VOTES
• QUESTION
  • RETURNED SOLDIERS
• QUESTION
  • CENSORSHIP
• QUESTION
  • RABBITS AND RABBIT SKINS
• QUESTION
  • PROPOSED INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
• QUESTION
  • ENROLMENT OF AUSTRALIANS ABROAD
• QUESTION
  • FEDERAL TERRITORY COMMISSION
• QUESTION
  • FARES ON COASTAL STEAM-SHIPS
• QUESTION
  • RACING STAKES AND WAR BONDS
• QUESTION
  • SALE OF METALS
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 4) 1916-17
  • First Reading
• QUESTION
  • MOONLIGHT ON THE SNOW
• ADJOURNMENT

14 February 1917

24,613 words

• QUESTION
  • SOLDIERS'FINAL LEAVE
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALIAN ARMY RESERVE
• ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
• QUEENSLAND STOCK EMBARGO
• WOOL APPRAISERS: TASMANIA
• GILCHRIST CASE
• JAM CONTRACT
• WAR LOAN
• SUBMAKINE MENACE
  • Arming of Merchantmen
• IMPERIAL WAR CONFERENCE
• THE TARIFF : PROTECTION
• CRUISER ADELAIDE
• MILITARY SERVICE REFERENDUM
  • Manifesto to the Troops: Soldiers' Vote
• FEDERAL ELECTIONS
  • Soldiers' Vote
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 4) 1916-17
• WAR. PRECAUTIONS ACT
• ADJOURNMENT

15 February 1917

13,031 words

• GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S MESSAGES
  • Procedure
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 4) 1916-17
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
  • Amalgamation of Parties
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Unemployment : Carpenters - Amalgamation of Parties - Letter Cabbiebs and Municipal Office - Land Settlement : Repatriation Scheme - Land Tax - Protective Tariff - Railway Construction - Economic Conscription - Governor-General's Messages : Procedure - Imperial War Conference - United States Industrial Commission

22 February 1917

8,295 words

• COMMONWEALTH WAR MINISTRY
  • Statement of Policy
  • Right Honorable William Morris Hughes, P.C., M.P., Prime Minister and Attorney-General
  • Right Honorable Sir John Forrest, P.C., M.P., G.C.M.G., Treasurer
  • The Honorable William Alexander Watt, M.P., Minister of State for Works and Railways
  • The Honorable Jens August Jensen, M.P., Minister of State for Trade and Customs
  • The Honorable William Webster, M.P., Postmaster-General
  • The Honorable Littleton Ernest' Groom, M.P., and
• QUESTION
  • MILITARY PUNISHMENTS
• QUESTION
  • HOME SERVICE PROCLAMATION
• QUESTION
  • COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • IMPERIAL WAR CONFERENCE
• PAPEES
  • Public Service Act 1902-1916. - Promotion of R. B. Avery, Postmaster-General's Department
• QUESTION
  • CAPTAIN BEAN'S ' CORRESPONDENCE
• SOLDIERS' PENSION RIGHTS
• QUESTION
  • PROHIBITION OF PROTECTION MEETING
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • VENEREAL DISEASE
• QUESTION
  • POSTAL DEPARTMENT
• QUESTION
  • KHAKI CLOTH
• FEDERAL CAPITAL
  • Workmen's Dwellings

23 February 1917

28,431 words

• QUESTION
  • HOME SERVICE PROCLAMATION
• QUESTION
  • PROTECTION-PROHIBITION OF MEETING
• QUESTION
  • UNITED STATES INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
• QUESTION
  • MURRAY WATERS COMMISSION: NORTHERN TERRITORY
• QUESTION
  • DEFENCE DEPARTMENT
• QUESTION
  • TASMANIAN WHEAT SUPPLY
• QUESTION
  • WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• PAPER
• QUESTION
  • DAYLIGHT SAVING ACT
• QUESTION
  • TASMANIAN MAIL SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • PATENTS AND TRADE MARKS
• QUESTION
  • PAY TO DISCHARGED SOLDIERS
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE
• HOME SERVICE PROCLAMATION - COST OF REFERENDUM
• COMMONWEALTH WAR MINISTRY
  • Statement of Policy
• ADJOURNMENT

28 February 1917

36,615 words

• QUESTION
  • EXPORTATION OF APPLES
• QUESTION
  • PROTECTION: PROHIBITION OF MEETING
• PAPERS
• PERSONAL EXPLANATION
• QUESTION
  • IMPERIAL WAR CONFERENCE
• QUESTION
  • WOUNDED SOLDIERS IN ENGLAND
• QUESTION
  • DEFENCE DEPARTMENT
• QUESTION
  • DUTY ON BEDSTEAD MOUNTS
• QUESTION
  • LAUNCESTON RIFLE RANGE
• QUESTION
  • SOLDIERS IN GAOLS
• QUESTION
  • PENSIONS: BENEVOLENT HOMES
• NEW BUSINESS
• QUESTION
  • COMMONWEALTH WAR MINISTRY
• ADJOURNMENT

1 March 1917

26,764 words

• HOME SERVICE PROCLAMATION
• QUESTION
  • PROTECTION: PROHIBITION OF MEETING
• QUESTION
  • PAIRS
• QUESTION
  • PREMIER OF TASMANIA
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • IMPERIAL CONFERENCE
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • ADMINISTRATOR OF NORTHERN TERRITORY - CHAIRMAN OF RIVER MURRAY WATERS COMMISSION
• QUESTION
  • PRICE OF STOCK AND MEAT
• QUESTION
  • PROSECUTION OF MR. COOMBE, M.H.A
• QUESTION
  • ADVANCES TO SOLDIERS
• QUESTION
  • GENERAL ELECTION
• QUESTION
  • RECRUITING DEPOT: MELBOURNE
• QUESTION
  • HENDERSON NAVAL BASE
• QUESTION
  • IMPERIAL CONFERENCE
• DAYLIGHT SAVING ACT REPEAL. BILL
• QUESTION
  • POSTPONEMENT OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
• QUESTION
  • COMMONWEALTH WAR MINISTRY
• ADJOURNMENT
• STORAGE OF TAR
  • Melbourne, Saturday
  • Empire War Council
  • Ayes ... ... 17
  • Noes ... ... ... 15
  • Majority ... ... 2

2 March 1917

19,220 words

• QUESTION
  • NEW SENATOR
• PERSONAL EXPLANATION
• QUESTION
  • THE GOVERNMENT AND THE SENATE
• QUESTION
  • PROTECTION: PROHIBITION OF MEETING
• QUESTION
  • KALGOORLIE TO PORT AUGUSTA RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • IMPERIAL WAR CONFERENCE
• NEW SENATOR SWORN
• QUESTION
  • SECRET SERVICE FUNDS
• QUESTION
  • PRICE OF WHEAT
• QUESTION
  • WORKMEN'S DWELLINGS
• QUESTION
  • GENERAL ELECTION
• QUESTION
  • TRADES COMMISSION
• QUESTION
  • COMMONWEALTH WAR MINISTRY
• DAYLIGHT SAVING ACT REPEAL BILL
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
  • Imperial Conference: Position of Australian Delegates - Resignation of Senator Ready - Senator Earle's Appointment - Pairs - Suspension of Senator Mullan - Prolongation of Parliament

5 March 1917

64,912 words

• ADJOURNMENT

7 March 1917

22,783 words

• PAPERS
• SENATOR EARLE
  • Notification of Appointment
  • Commonwealth of Australia
  • Governor-General,
  • Melbourne, 6th March, 1917
  • Memorandum for
  • Hobart, Tasmania, 2nd March, 1917
  • Sir,
• QUESTION
  • RESIGNATION OF SENATOR READY
• POSTAL STORES, SYDNEY!
• THE WHEAT POOL
• QUESTION
  • NORTHERN TERRITORY
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • GENERAL ELECTION'S
• QUESTION
  • WHEAT BOARD
• QUESTION
  • AVERAGE PRICE OP WHEAT
• QUESTION
  • QUEENSLAND STOCK EMBARGO
• QUESTION
  • CENSORSHIP
• QUESTION
  • NORTHERN TERRITORY
• QUESTION
  • IMPERIAL CONFERENCE
• QUESTION
  • PAYMENTS TO MR. W. B. GRIFFIN
• HOME RULE FOR IRELAND
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
  • Government Business
• ADJOURNMENT

13 March 1917

45,572 words

• QUESTION
  • THE COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENT
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • CASE OP MR. BARDOLPH
• QUESTION
  • CASE OF MR. GILCHRIST
• QUESTION
  • THE GOVERNMENT AND THE SENATE
• QUESTION
  • WEALTH CENSUS
• QUESTION
  • POLITICAL MANIFESTOES
• QUESTION
  • RECRUITING
• QUESTION
  • LIVERPOOL CAMP
• QUESTION
  • SUGAR
• QUESTION
  • COAL
• ADJOURNMENT

14 March 1917

140,073 words

• QUESTION
  • THE GOVERNMENT AND THE SENATE
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • CENSORSHIP
• QUESTION
  • GENERAL ELECTION
• QUESTION
  • SOLDIERS' WIVES AND CHILDREN
• QUESTION
  • CASE OF MR. BARDOLPH
• QUESTION
  • ENLISTMENTS IN AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE
• QUESTION
  • WHEAT POOL
• QUESTION
  • QUEENSLAND STOCK EMBARGO
• QUESTION
  • EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
• QUESTION
  • INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION TO UNITED STATES
• QUESTION
  • GENERAL ELECTION
• QUESTION
  • SALE OF SUGAR
• SUSPENSION OF STANDING ORDER
  • New Business
• ORDER OF BUSINESS
• APPOINTMENT OF SENATOR EARLE
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 5) 1916-17
• RETURNED SOLDIERS
• QUESTION
  • REFERENDUM : ANZAC VOTE
• SUPPLY (WORKS AND BUILDINGS) BILL (No. 4) 1916-17,
• SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATION BILL 1914-15
• SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATION (WORKS AND BUILDINGS) BILL 1914-1915
• CUSTOMS TARIFF VALIDATION BILL
• PRIVILEGE
  • Telegramfrom Trade Union Secretary
  • Haymarket, Sydney
  • President of Senate, Melbourne
  • Secretary, Trades Hall, Sydney
• CUSTOMS TARIFF VALIDATION BILL
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Defence Department,
  • Melbourne, 5th March, 1917
  • Acting Secretary
  • Senator M. A. Ferricks,
  • Parliament House
  • Assistant Commissioner of Pensions

16 March 1917

76,309 words

• ASSENT TO BILLS
• PRIVILEGE
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • PRICE OF WHEAT
• QUESTION
  • THE GOVERNMENT AND THE SENATE
• QUESTION
  • CASE OF MR POLKINGHORNE
• QUESTION
  • THE COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENT
• QUESTION
  • NORTHERN TERRITORY
• QUESTION
  • MURRAY RIVER WATERS COMMISSION
• QUESTION
  • CANBERRA ARSENAL
• QUESTION
  • WORKMEN'S DWELLINGS AT CANBERRA
• QUESTION
  • PERSONNEL OF SELECT COMMITTEES
• QUESTION
  • CENSORSHIP
• QUESTION
  • BRITISH WAR BONDS
• QUESTION
  • PRICE OF WHEAT
• PRIVILEGE
• FLINDERS NAVAL BASE: POWER HOUSE
• EXCISE TARIFF VALIDATION BILL
• QUESTION
  • COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL
• PAPERS
• SUSPENSION OF SITTING
• PRIVILEGE
  • President, The Senate, Parliament House, Melbourne
  • Edward W. Wilson,
  • General President Australian Telegraph Telephone Construction and Maintenance Union. Box 451 G.P.O., Brisbane
• COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL (WAR-TIME) BILL
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Justinian Oxenham, Secretary