| |
Summer/Autumn
|
Budget/Winter
|
Spring
|
Total
|
|
Number of sitting days 
|
10
|
11
|
39
|
60
|
|
Hours of sitting
|
97 hrs 51 mins
|
99 hrs 49 mins
|
341 hrs 27 mins
|
539 hrs 07 mins
|
|
Average length of a sitting day
|
9 hrs 47 mins
|
9 hrs 04 mins
|
8 hrs 45 mins
|
8 hrs 59 mins
|
|
Longest sitting day
|
14 hrs 51 mins
(14 March 2002)
|
17 hrs 50 mins
(27 June 2002)
|
22 hrs 54 mins
(12 December 2002)
|
N/A
|
|
Shortest sitting day
|
3 hrs 24 mins
(12 February 2002)
|
1 hr 13 mins
(17 June 2002)
|
02 mins
(24 October 2002)
|
N/A
|
|
Questions placed on notice
|
208
(1/1 - 21/3)
|
201
(22/3 - 30/6)
|
645
(1/7 - 31/12)
|
1054
|
Questions without notice*
|
214
|
219
|
803
|
1236
|
| Question time held on: |
9 sitting days
|
10 sitting days
|
35 sitting days
|
54 sitting days
|
|
Average daily number of questions without notice*
|
23.8
|
21.9
|
22.9
|
22.9
|
|
Petitions presented
|
21
|
8
|
70
|
99
|
|
Signatories to petitions
|
7894
|
2257
|
35 508
|
45 659
|
| Delegated legislation Notices of motion for disallowance: |
|
|
|
|
|
Given
|
5
|
8
|
12
|
25
|
|
Agreed to
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
6
|
|
Negatived
|
0
|
2
|
8
|
10
|
|
Withdrawn
|
0
|
1
|
8
|
9
|
|
Still before the Senate
|
4
|
7
|
1
|
N/A
|
|
Statements by the President and the Chair of Committees
|
5
|
4
|
14
|
23
|
|
Ministerial statements
|
0
|
1
|
6
|
7
|
|
Matters of public importance
|
2
|
0
|
1
|
3
|
|
Urgency motions
|
0
|
0
|
8
|
8
|
|
Principal motions agreed to
|
21
|
13
|
72
|
106
|
|
Condolence motions
|
4
|
2
|
3
|
9
|
|
Censure motions
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
|
Orders for the production of documents
|
4
|
9
|
23
|
36
|
|
Government responses to committee reports tabled
|
1
|
15
|
23
|
39
|
|
Divisions
|
20
|
19
|
80
|
119
|