| |
Autumn
|
Budget/Winter |
Spring |
Total |
|
Number of sitting days 
|
15
|
12
|
30
|
57
|
|
Hours of sitting
|
151 hrs 26 mins
|
124 hrs 37 mins
|
315 hrs 09 mins
|
591 hrs 12 mins
|
|
Average length of a sitting day
|
10 hrs 6 mins
|
10 hrs 23 mins
|
10 hrs 30 mins
|
10 hrs 22 mins
|
|
Longest sitting day
|
12 hrs 37 mins
(15 March)
|
17 hrs 23 mins
(28 June)
|
13 hrs 39 mins
(29 November)
|
N/A
|
|
Shortest sitting day
|
5 hrs 14 mins
(16 March)
|
5 hrs
(8 May)
|
7 hrs 54 mins
(9 October)
|
N/A
|
|
Questions placed on notice
|
284
(1/1 - 22/3)
|
168
(23/3 - 28/6)
|
693
(29/6 - 29/11)
|
1 145
(1/1 - 29/11)
|
Questions without notice*
|
395
|
249
|
848
|
1 492
|
| Question time held on: |
14 sitting days
|
9 sitting days
|
30 sitting days
|
53 sitting days
|
|
Average daily number of questions without notice*
|
28.2
|
27.7
|
28.3
|
28.2
|
|
Petitions presented
|
7
|
16
|
17
|
40
|
|
Signatories to petitions
|
1 546
|
65 346
|
18 583
|
85 475
|
| Delegated legislation- Notices of motion for disallowance: |
|
|
|
|
|
Given
|
1
|
0
|
10
|
11
|
|
Agreed to
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
1
|
|
Negatived
|
0
|
0
|
7
|
7
|
|
Withdrawn
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
3
|
|
Still before the Senate
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
N/A
|
|
Statements by the President, Deputy President and the Chair of Committees
|
7
|
1
|
4
|
12
|
|
Ministerial statements tabled
|
18
|
8
|
11
|
37
|
|
Matters of public importance
|
5
|
5
|
17
|
30
|
|
Urgency motions
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
Principal motions agreed to
|
34
|
23
|
69
|
126
|
|
Condolence motions
|
3
|
3
|
9
|
15
|
|
Censure motions
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
Orders for the production of documents
|
0
|
2
|
6
|
8
|
|
Government responses to committee reports tabled
|
26
|
19
|
30
|
75
|
|
Divisions
|
88
|
74
|
180
|
307
|