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Autumn
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Winter/Budget
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Spring
|
Total
|
|
Number of sitting days 
|
19
|
13
|
20
|
52
|
|
Hours of sitting
|
159 hrs 16 mins
|
104 hrs 19 mins |
178 hrs 27 mins |
442 hrs 02 mins |
|
Average length of a sitting day
|
8 hrs 22 mins
|
8 hrs 01 min
|
8 hrs 55 mins
|
8 hrs 30 mins
|
|
Longest sitting day
|
10 hrs 23 mins
(7 March 2001)
|
16 hrs 22 mins
(28 June 2001)
|
15 hrs 25 mins
(29 August 2001)
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N/A
|
|
Shortest sitting day
|
5 hrs 25 mins
(3 April 2001)
|
39 mins
(9 May 2001)
|
4 hrs 30 mins
(17 September 2001)
|
N/A
|
|
Questions placed on notice
|
319
(1/1 - 5/4)
|
107
6/4 - 30/6)
|
249
(1/7 - 31/12)
|
675
|
Questions without notice*
|
409
|
243
|
398
|
1050
|
| Question time held on: |
19 sitting days
|
11 sitting days
|
19 sitting days
|
49 sitting days
|
|
Average daily number of questions without notice*
|
21.5
|
22.1
|
20.9
|
21.4
|
|
Petitions presented
|
47
|
21
|
35
|
103
|
|
Signatories to petitions
|
64 522
|
4 900
|
12 153
|
81 575
|
| Delegated legislation Notices of motion for disallowance: |
|
|
|
|
|
Given
|
18
|
1
|
5
|
24
|
|
Agreed to
|
0
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
|
Negatived
|
3
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
|
Withdrawn
|
5
|
11
|
2
|
18
|
|
Still before the Senate
|
12
|
1
|
3
|
N/A
|
|
Statements by the President and the Chair of Committees
|
6
|
4
|
7
|
17
|
|
Ministerial statements
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
2
|
|
Matters of public importance
|
3
|
0
|
1
|
4
|
|
Urgency motions
|
4
|
1
|
6
|
11
|
|
Principal motions agreed to
|
33
|
19
|
35
|
87
|
|
Condolence motions
|
3
|
0
|
2
|
5
|
|
Censure motions
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
Orders for the production of documents
|
9
|
4
|
10
|
23
|
|
Government responses to committee reports tabled
|
25
|
8
|
14
|
47
|
|
Divisions
|
21
|
16
|
29
|
66
|