WEEK AHEAD IN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT
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* House of Representatives is sitting from Monday to Thursday.
* Senate estimates hearings run from Monday to Friday.
* It is the last sitting week before the April 2 budget.
* Government is expected not to oppose a motion to set up a royal commission into the treatment of people with disabilities.
* Labor is seeking crossbench support to add another two sitting weeks in March, but does not yet have the 76 votes needed.
* Estimates hearings areas of interest to include: fight involving One Nation staffer James Ashby and senator Brian Burston; asylum seeker medical transfers; Manus Island security contracting; Australian Workers Union office raids; the state of the budget and economy; the mass fish kill in the Murray Darling system; the detention of refugee soccer player Hakeem al-Araibi; and the banking royal commission response.
* Coalition and Labor party room meetings on Tuesday.
* Senate inquiry report into payday lenders and 'buy now, pay later' providers due to be tabled on Friday.
Australian Associated Press