Senate Statistical Summary 4/2013
No. 4—18 to 21 March
General
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18 to 21 March
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2013 to date
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Number of sitting days
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4
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14
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Average length of a sitting day
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9 hrs 42 mins
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9 hrs 48 mins
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Longest sitting day
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12 hrs 14 mins
(20 March)
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12 hrs 14 mins
(20 March)
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Shortest sitting day
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6 hrs 17 mins
(21 March)
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6 hrs 17 mins
(21 March)
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Hours of sitting
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38 hrs 48 mins
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137 hrs 09 mins
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Business conducted in the Senate
- government business
- general business
including time spent on private senators' bills
- questions without notice
- urgency/MPI
- business of the Senate
- other
- adjournment debate
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20 hrs 03 mins
8 hrs 28 mins
2 hrs 20 mins
3 hrs 52 mins
2 hrs 03 mins
0 hrs 05 mins
0 hrs 23 mins
3 hrs 54 mins
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50 hrs 12 mins
46 hrs 08 mins
11 hrs 09 mins
13 hrs 37 mins
9 hrs 21 mins
0 hrs 56 mins
2 hrs 04 mins
14 hrs 51 mins
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Questions placed on notice
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2^
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253*
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Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)
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102
4 sitting days
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354
14 sitting days
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Average daily number of questions without notice
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25.5
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25.3
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Notices of motion given
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41
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169
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Petitions presented
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0
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6
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Signatories to petitions
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0
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24 046
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Divisions
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21
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56
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^ Questions placed on notice from 15 to 21 March 2013 inclusive
* Questions placed on notice from 30 November 2012 to 21 March 2013 inclusive
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Legislation
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Introduced in the Senate
- government bills
- private senators' bills
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0
2
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3
11
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Received from the House of Representatives
- government bills
- private members' bills
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11
0
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32
0
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Passed in the Senate
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11
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32
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Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper
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0
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2
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Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'
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10
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13
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Bills referred to committees
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20
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41
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2013, to date
18 to 21 March 2013
