Senate Statistical Summary 13/2012
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No. 13/2012 29 October to 1 November 2012
General
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29 October to 1 November
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2012 to date
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Number of sitting days
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4
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49
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Average length of a sitting day
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10 hrs 25 mins
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10 hrs 11 mins
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Longest sitting day
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11 hrs 26 mins
(29 October)
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17 hrs 23 mins
(28 June)
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Shortest sitting day
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9 hrs 50 mins
(31 October)
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5 hrs
(8 May)
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Hours of sitting
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41 hrs 39 mins
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498 hrs 41 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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14 hrs 03 mins
13 hrs 50 mins
2 hrs 20 mins
4 hrs 14 mins
3 hrs 05 mins
0 hrs 58 mins
0 hrs 32 mins
4 hrs 57 mins
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221 hrs 35 mins
135 hrs 21 mins
27 hrs 52 mins
47 hrs 22 mins
26 hrs 19 mins
8 hrs 30 mins
13 hrs 15 mins
46 hrs 19 mins
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Questions placed on notice
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122^
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1021*
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Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)
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117
4 sitting days
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1021
45 sitting days
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Average daily number of questions without notice
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29.3
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28.2
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Notices of motion given
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47
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492
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Petitions presented
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3
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36
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Signatories to petitions
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10 391
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79 590
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Divisions
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16
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278
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^ Questions placed on notice from 12 October 2012 to 1 November inclusive
* Questions placed on notice from 28 November 2011 to 1 November 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
20
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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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186
1
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Passed in the Senate
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10
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159
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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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9
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24
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Bills referred to committees
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6
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85
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Business conducted in the Senate 2012, to date
Business conducted in the Senate in the period 29 October to 1 November 2012
Note: These figures do not include time spent on adjournment debates