Senate Statistical Summary 12/2012
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No. 12/2012 9 to 11 October 2012
General
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9 to 11 October
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2012 to date
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Number of sitting days
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3
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45
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Average length of a sitting day
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9 hrs 22 mins
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10 hrs 09 mins
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Longest sitting day
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10 hrs 18 mins
(11 October)
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17 hrs 23 mins
(28 June)
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Shortest sitting day
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7 hrs 54 mins
(9 October)
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5 hrs
(8 May)
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Hours of sitting
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28 hrs 07 mins
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457 hrs 02 mins
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Business conducted in the Senate
- government business
- general business
including time spent on private senators' bills
- questions without notice
- urgency/MPI
- business of the Senate
- other
- adjournment debate
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8 hrs 13 mins
10 hrs 50 mins
4 hrs 19 mins
3 hrs 18 mins
2 hrs 03 mins
0 hrs 37 mins
0 hrs 26 mins
2 hrs 40 mins
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207 hrs 32 mins
121 hrs 31 mins
25 hrs 32 mins
43 hrs 08 mins
23 hrs 14 mins
7 hrs 32 mins
12 hrs 43 mins
41 hrs 22 mins
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Questions placed on notice
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158^
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899*
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Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)
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87
3 sitting days
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1150
41 sitting days
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Average daily number of questions without notice
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29.0
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28.0
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Notices of motion given
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27
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445
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Petitions presented
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2
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33
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Signatories to petitions
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197
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69 199
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Divisions
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16
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262
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^ Questions placed on notice from 21 September to 11 October 2012 inclusive
* Questions placed on notice from 28 November 2011 to 11 October 2012 inclusive
Legislation
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Introduced in the Senate
- government bills
- private senators' bills
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0
1
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2
19
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Received from the House of Representatives
- government bills
- private members' bills
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14
0
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172
1
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Passed in the Senate
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5
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149
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Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper
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0
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7
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Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'
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5
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15
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Bills referred to committees
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8
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79
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Business conducted in the Senate 2012, to date
Business conducted in the Senate in the period 9 to 11 October 2012
Note: These figures do not include time spent on adjournment debates