| |
Summer/Autumn
|
Budget/Winter
|
Spring
|
Total
|
|
Number of sitting days 
|
14
|
11
|
39
|
64
|
|
Hours of sitting
|
131 hrs 19 mins
|
109 hrs 44 mins
|
343 hrs 53 mins
|
584 hrs 56 mins
|
|
Average length of a sitting day
|
9 hrs 23 mins
|
9 hrs 59 mins
|
8 hrs 49 mins
|
9 hrs 08 mins
|
|
Longest sitting day
|
12 hrs 52 mins
(19 March 2003)
|
17 hrs 30 mins
(26 June 2003)
|
21 hrs 36 mins
(4 December 2003)
|
N/A
|
|
Shortest sitting day
|
6 hrs 17 mins
(4 February 2003)
|
5 hrs 05 mins
(13 May 2003)
|
0 hrs 40 mins
(23 October 2003)
|
N/A
|
|
Questions placed on notice
|
315
(1/1 - 27/3)
|
229
(28/3 - 30/6)
|
895
(1/7 - 31/12)
|
1439
|
Questions without notice*
|
285
|
245
|
|
1333
|
| Question time held on: |
12 sitting days
|
11 sitting days
|
35 sitting days
|
58 sitting days
|
|
Average daily number of questions without notice*
|
23.8
|
22.3
|
22.9
|
23
|
|
Petitions presented
|
19
|
13
|
97
|
129
|
|
Signatories to petitions
|
19 294
|
8 813
|
171 479
|
199 586
|
| Delegated legislation Notices of motion for disallowance: |
|
|
|
|
|
Given
|
5
|
5
|
27
|
37
|
|
Agreed to
|
0
|
0
|
4
|
4
|
|
Negatived
|
0
|
1
|
5
|
6
|
|
Withdrawn
|
1
|
3
|
20
|
24
|
|
Still before the Senate
|
4
|
5
|
3
|
N/A
|
|
Statements by the President and the Chair of Committees
|
3
|
1
|
7
|
11
|
|
Ministerial statements
|
5
|
2
|
5
|
12
|
|
Matters of public importance
|
1
|
1
|
6
|
8
|
|
Urgency motions
|
0
|
0
|
5
|
5
|
|
Principal motions agreed to
|
46
|
24
|
104
|
174
|
|
Condolence motions
|
0
|
1
|
5
|
6
|
|
Censure motions
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
2
|
|
Orders for the production of documents
|
6
|
9
|
19
|
34
|
|
Government responses to committee reports tabled
|
9
|
12
|
18
|
39
|
|
Divisions
|
30
|
34
|
98
|
162
|