Senate Statistical Summary
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No. 11/2009 14 to 17 September 2009
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General
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14 to 17 September
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2009 to date
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Number of sitting days
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4
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40
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Average length of a sitting day
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8 hrs 58 mins
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9 hrs 19 mins
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Longest sitting day
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9 hrs 44 mins
(16 September)
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23 hrs 44 mins
(19 and 20 March)
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Shortest sitting day
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7 hrs 57 mins
(15 September)
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0 hrs 45 mins
(9 February)
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Hours of sitting
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35 hrs 52 mins
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372 hrs 40 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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14 hrs 51 mins
7 hrs 58 mins
4 hrs 27 mins
2 hrs 02 mins
3 hrs 22 mins
0 hrs 06 mins
3 hrs 06 mins
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193 hrs 44 mins
84 hrs 23 mins
38 hrs 38 mins
14 hrs 26 mins
15 hrs 25 mins
4 hrs 30 mins
21 hrs 34 mins
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Questions placed on notice
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193^
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1191*
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Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)
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117
4 sitting days
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1026
36 sitting days
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Average daily number of questions without notice
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29.3
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28.5
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| Notices of motion given |
33
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343
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Petitions presented
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3
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37
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Signatories to petitions
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1467
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84 932
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Divisions
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16
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138
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^ Questions placed on notice from 11 to 17 September 2009 inclusive
* Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2008 to 17 September 2009 inclusive
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Legislation
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Introduced in the Senate
- government bills
- private senators' bills
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0
5
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7
17
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Received from the House of Representatives
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9
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145
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Passed in the Senate
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15
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108
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Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper
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1
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33
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Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'
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8
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35
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Bills referred to committees
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5
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90
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Business conducted in the Senate 2009, to date
Business conducted in the Senate in the period 14 to 17 September 2009
Note: These figures do not include time spent on adjournment debates
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