Senate Statistical Summary
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Senate Statistical
Information
No. 4/2001 26 to 29 March 2001
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General
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26 to 29 March
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Autumn sittings to date
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Number of sitting days
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4
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15
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Average length of a sitting day
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8 hrs 29 mins
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8 hrs 23 mins
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Longest sitting day
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9 hrs 51 mins
(28 March 2001)
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10 hrs 23 mins
(7 March 2001)
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Shortest sitting day
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5 hrs 40 mins
(27 March 2001)
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5 hrs 31 mins
(6 February 2001)
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Hours of sitting
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33 hrs 58 mins
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125 hrs 53 mins
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Business conducted in the Senate
- government business
- general business
- questions without notice
- urgency/MPI
- business of the Senate
- other
- adjournment debate
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15 hrs 53 mins
7 hrs 36 mins
4 hrs 15 mins
2 hrs 01 min
1 hr 23 mins
11 mins
2 hrs 39 mins
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57 hrs 38 mins
31 hrs 35 mins
16 hrs 03 mins
6 hrs 19 mins
1 hr 33 mins
2 hrs 25 mins
10 hrs 20 mins
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Questions placed on notice
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44^
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342**
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Questions without notice*
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83
4 sitting days
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323
15 sitting days
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Average daily number of questions without notice
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20.8
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21.5
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Petitions presented
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13
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41
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Signatories to petitions
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61 004
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63 237
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Divisions
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1
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17
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* Includes supplementary questions
^ Questions placed on notice from 9 to 29 March inclusive
** Questions placed on notice since the end of the summer sittings
2000
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Legislation
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Introduced in the Senate
- government bills
- private senators' bills
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0
0
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3
2
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Received from the House of Representatives
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12
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31
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Bill created by division of bill in the Senate
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0
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1
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Passed in the Senate
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8**
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28
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Bills negatived
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1
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3
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Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'
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2
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6
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Bills referred to committees
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2
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11
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** This figure includes the Australian Research Council Bill
2000 and the Australian Research Council (Consequential and
Transitional Provisions) Bill 2000. These bills were read a third
time by the Senate on 4/12/00, but have since been the subject of
disagreemnt between the Houses. Final agreement was reached on
8/3/01 (message reported in the Senate on 26/3/01).
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Business conducted in the Senate 2001, to date
Business conducted in the Senate in the period 26 to 29 March
2001
Note: These figures do not include time spent on adjournment
debates
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