Senate Statistical Summary
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Senate Statistical
Information
No. 3/2002 19 to 21 March 2002
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General
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19 to 21 March
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2002 to date
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Number of sitting days
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3
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10
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Average length of a sitting day
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10 hrs 29 mins
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9 hrs 47 mins
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Longest sitting day
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13 hrs 09 mins
(20 March 2002)
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14 hrs 51 mins
(14 March 2002)
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Shortest sitting day
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8 hrs 43 mins
(19 March 2002)
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3 hrs 24 mins
(12 February 2002)
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Hours of sitting
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31 hrs 28 mins
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97 hrs 51 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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19 hrs 05 mins
6 hrs 34 mins
3 hrs 12 mins
0 mins
29 mins
27 mins
1 hr 41 mins
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52 hrs 20 mins
21 hrs 46 mins
9 hrs 27 mins
1 hr 46 mins
1 hr 51 mins
5 hrs 55 mins
4 hrs 46 mins
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Questions placed on notice
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16^
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209
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Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)
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74
3 sitting days
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214
9 sitting days
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Average daily number of questions without notice
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24.7
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23.8
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Petitions presented
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4
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21
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Signatories to petitions
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4074
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7894
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Divisions
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5
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20
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^ Questions placed on notice from 15 to 21 March inclusive
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Legislation
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Introduced in the Senate
- government bills
- private senators' bills
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2
1
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7
2
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Received from the House of Representatives
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12
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36
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Passed in the Senate
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19
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32
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Bills negatived
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0
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0
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Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'
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13
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14
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Bills referred to committees
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16
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21
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Private senators' bills restored to Notice Paper
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0
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14
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Business conducted in the Senate 2002, to date
Business conducted in the Senate in the period 19 to 21 March
2002
Note: These figures do not include time spent on adjournment
debates
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