Senate Statistical Summary 14/2012
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No. 14/2012 19 to 22 November 2012
General
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19 to 22 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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53
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Average length of a sitting day
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11 hrs 24 mins
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10 hrs 16 mins
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Longest sitting day
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12 hrs 12 mins
(20 November)
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17 hrs 23 mins
(28 June)
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Shortest sitting day
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9 hrs 48 mins
(21 November)
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5 hrs
(8 May)
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Hours of sitting
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45 hrs 36 mins
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544 hrs 17 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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22 hrs 18 mins
10 hrs 52 mins
2 hrs 20 mins
4 hrs 10 mins
3 hrs 04 mins
1 hrs 06 mins
0 hrs 04 mins
4 hrs 02 mins
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243 hrs 53 mins
146 hrs 13 mins
30 hrs 12 mins
51 hrs 32 mins
29 hrs 23 mins
9 hrs 36 mins
13 hrs 19 mins
50 hrs 21 mins
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Questions placed on notice
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66^
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1087*
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Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)
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114
4 sitting days
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1381
49 sitting days
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Average daily number of questions without notice
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28.5
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28.2
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Notices of motion given
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51
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543
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Petitions presented
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1
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37
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Signatories to petitions
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10
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79 600
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Divisions
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29
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307
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^ Questions placed on notice from 2 to 22 November inclusive
* Questions placed on notice from 28 November 2011 to 22 November 2012 inclusive
Legislation
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Introduced in the Senate
- government bills
- private senators' bills
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0
2
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2
22
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Received from the House of Representatives
- government bills
- private members' bills
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4
0
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190
1
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Passed in the Senate
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21
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180
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Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper
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1
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8
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Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'
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21
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45
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Bills referred to committees
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3
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88
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Business conducted in the Senate 2012, to date
Business conducted in the Senate in the period 19 to 22 November 2012
Note: These figures do not include time spent on adjournment debates