Senate Statistical Summary
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Senate Statistical
Information
No. 5/2002 17 to 20 June 2002
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General
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17 to 20 June
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2002 to date
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Number of sitting days
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4
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17
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Average length of a sitting day
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6 hrs 45 mins
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8 hrs 49 mins
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Longest sitting day
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10 hrs 29 mins
(20 June 2002)
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14 hrs 51 mins
(14 March 2002)
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Shortest sitting day
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1 hr 13 mins
(17 June 2002)
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1 hr 13 mins
(17 June 2002)
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Hours of sitting
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27 hrs 02 mins
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149 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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9 hrs 49 mins
7 hrs 56 mins
3 hrs 14 mins
0 mins
3 hrs 16 mins
1 hr 09 mins
1 hr 38 mins
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71 hrs 34 mins
37 hrs 40 mins
15 hrs 53 mins
1 hr 46 mins
7 hrs 33 mins
7 hrs 09 mins
8 hrs 16 mins
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Questions placed on notice
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58^
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391
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Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)
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70
3 sitting days
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348
15 sitting days
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Average daily number of questions without notice
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23.3
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23.2
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Petitions presented
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4
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28
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Signatories to petitions
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1440
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9803
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Divisions
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5
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30
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^ Questions placed on notice from 17 May to 20 June
inclusive
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Legislation
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Introduced in the Senate
- government bills
- private senators' bills
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1
2
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8
6
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Received from the House of Representatives
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30
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70
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Passed in the Senate
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7
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40
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Bills negatived
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1
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1
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Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'
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0
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14
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Bills referred to committees
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8
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30
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Private senators' bills restored to Notice Paper
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0
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18
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Business conducted in the Senate 2002, to date
Business conducted in the Senate in the period 17 to 20 June
2002
Note: These figures do not include time spent on adjournment
debates
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