Senate Statistical Summary
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No. 4/2009 16 to 19 March 2009
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General
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16 to 19 March
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2009 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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13 hrs 39 mins
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9 hrs 52 mins
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Longest sitting day
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23 hrs 44 mins
(19 and 20 March)
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23 hrs 44 mins
(19 and 20 March)
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Shortest sitting day
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9 hrs 59 mins
(17 March)
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0 hrs 45 mins
(9 February)
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Hours of sitting
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54 hrs 37 mins
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138 hrs 14 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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36 hrs 03 mins
8 hrs 48 mins
4 hrs 14 mins
2 hrs 08 mins
0 hrs 44 mins
0 hrs 46 mins
1 hr 54 mins
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92 hrs 09 mins
22 hrs 13 mins
10 hrs 38 mins
4 hrs 08 mins
0 hrs 44 mins
2 hrs 27 mins
5 hrs 55 mins
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Questions placed on notice
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18^
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285*
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Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)
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108
4 sitting days
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289
10 sitting days
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Average daily number of questions without notice
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27
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28.9
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Petitions presented
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0
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7
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Signatories to petitions
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0
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12 218
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Divisions
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30
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56
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^ Questions placed on notice from 13 to 20 March 2009 inclusive
* Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2008 to 20 March 2009 inclusive
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Legislation
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Introduced in the Senate
- government bills
- private senators' bills
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1
1
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1
1
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Received from the House of Representatives
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11
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49
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Passed in the Senate
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9
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30
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Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper
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2
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12
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Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'
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3
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15
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Bills referred to committees
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11
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24
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Business conducted in the Senate 2009, to date
Business conducted in the Senate in the period 16 to 19 March 2009
Note: These figures do not include time spent on adjournment debates
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