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Annual Report 2003–04

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Figure 3 Written advices provided by the Clerk, 2003–04

Category	No. provided
Privilege – advices to Privileges Committee	2
Privilege – advices to President on matters raised by senators	4
Privilege – other advices	8
Other advices to President and Deputy President	13
Advices to other senators	70
Advices to other persons and bodies	19
Total	116

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Figure 4 Trends in the provision of advice by the Clerk’s Office

2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
103	88	73	116

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Figure 6 Legislation considered by the Senate

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Number of bills which passed both Houses	159	143	158	191
Number of bills to which amendments were moved	77	61	63	103
Number of bills to which amendments were agreed	59	44	44	74

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Figure 7 Amendments moved and agreed in the Senate

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Amendments moved	1,409	1,058	1,045	2,313
Amendments agreed to	784	908	630	1,457

Note: The figures for amendments also include requests for amendments and proposals to omit clauses or items from bills.

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Figure 8 Running sheets

Year	Number of bills	Number of pages
2000–01	49	253
2001–02	14	73
2002–03	29	172
2003–04	41	112

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Figure 9 Government legislation introduced in the Senate

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Number of government bills introduced in the Senate	26	13	8	7
Number of third reading prints produced	14	7	2	4

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Figure 10 Questions on notice and petitions

Year	No. of questions on notice	No. of petitions
2000–01	1,121	116
2001–02	657	64
2002–03	1,189	94
2003–04	1,459	195

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Figure 11 Inquiries—number recorded

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
No. of inquiries	9,500	6,000	4,460	7,320

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Figure 12 Inquiries—percentage dealt with within five minutes

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
% of inquiries dealt with within 5 minutes	96	92	88	94

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Figure 14 Legislative drafting services provided to non-government senators

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Second reading amendments	59	45	76	99
Private senators’ bills prepared	18	14	23	20
Private senators’ bills introduced	11	5	17	11

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Figure 15 Legislative drafting services provided to non-government senators—committee of the whole amendments

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Committee of the whole amendments	2,262	939	2,078	1,715

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Figure 16 Students who visited the PEO Education Centre, 1999 to 2004

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Non-CVP students	55,745	63,992	65,907	61,123	61,517	61,664
CVP students	12,880	13,055	15,874	15,318	17,055	18,776
Total no. of students	68,625	77,047	81,781	76,441	78,572	80,440

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Figure 17 Groups that visited the PEO Education Centre, 1999 to 2004

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Non-CVP groups	1,605	1,819	1,872	1,769	1,727	1,713
CVP groups	454	424	540	498	578	611
Total no. of school groups	2,059	2,243	2,412	2,267	2,305	2,324

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Figure 20 Legislation committees—activity

Figure 20: Legislation committees—meetings

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Public	68	39	57	79
Private	169	132	140	173
Inspections/other	2	5	2	0

Figure 20: Legislation committees—hours of meetings

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Public	245	140	395	248
Private	35	68	45	43

Figure 20: Legislation committees—matters referred

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Bills and/or provisions of bills (incl. packages of bills)	56	46	51	53
Other (including annual reports)	16	23	17	22

Figure 20: Legislation committees—reports presented

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Reports presented (incl. from inquiries current at 1 July 03)	53	44	54	77

Figure 20: Legislation committees—submissions received

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Submissions received	905	1009	3019	1545

Figure 20: Legislation committees—witnesses

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Witnesses	788	438	583	773

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Figure 21 Legislation committees considering estimates―activity

Note: The year shown refers to the budget cycle, not necessarily the year in which the committee activities took place.

Figure 21: Legislation committees considering estimates—hours of hearings, by budget cycle

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Budget estimates: main hearings May/June	274	300	358	358	329
Budget estimates: supplementary hearings October/November	121	*	111	179
Additional estimates: additional February hearings	169	201	188	187
Totals	565	501	658	724

Figure 21: Legislation committees considering estimates—witnesses and evidence

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
No. of witnesses	3179	2452	3385	2973	1872
No. of Hansard pages of evidence	6324	5127	7156	6310	3784

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Figure 22 References committees—activity

Figure 22: References committees—meetings

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Public	88	64	136	115
Private	140	111	112	133
Inspections/other	13	33	44	21

Figure 22: References committees—hours of meetings

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Public	408	259	518	528
Private	51	56	41	72

Figure 22: References committees—matters referred

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
General	9	18	23	11
Bills and/or provisions of bills (incl. packages of bills)	4	4	1	2

Figure 22: References committees–reports presented

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Reports presented (incl. from inquiries current at 1 July 2003)	13	18	10	21

Figure 22: References committees—submissions received

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Submissions received	3,555	1,591	1,953	3,954

Figure 22: References committees—witnesses

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Witnesses	1,128	1,049	1,719	1,294

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Figure 23 Select committees—activity

Figure 23: Select committees—number of committees

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Committees	3	2	4	6

Figure 23: Select committees—meetings

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Public	31	19	20	39
Private	48	42	36	50
Inspections/other	8	3	0	0

Figure 23: Select committees—hours of meetings

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Public	123	193	105	224
Private	19	28	21	16

Figure 23: Select committees—matters referred

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
General	2	4	4	4
Bills and/or provisions of bills	2	2	6	0

Figure 23: Select committees—reports presented

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Reports presented (incl. from inquiries current at 1 July 2003)	7	1	6	6

Figure 23: Select committees—submissions received

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Submissions received	3,196	215	266	946

Figure 23: Select committees—witnesses

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Witnesses	387	134	235	498

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Figure 24 Joint committees—activity

Figure 24: Joint committees—meetings

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Public	37	10	34	34
Private	41	23	58	59
Inspections/other	2	1	5	0

Figure 24: Joint committees—hours of meetings

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Public	131	29	112	134
Private	25	11	29	25

Figure 24: Joint committees—matters referred

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
General	0	6	6	3
Bills and/or provisions of bills	4	0	1	0

Figure 24: Joint committees—reports presented

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Reports presented (incl. from inquiries current at 1 July 2003)	8	4	5	13

Figure 24: Joint committees—submissions received

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Submissions received	258	69	335	186

Figure 24: Joint committees—witnesses

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Witnesses	342	68	279	298

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Figure 25 Committee meetings, by location, 2003–04

State/territory	Meetings
Australian Capital Territory	602
New South Wales	54
Victoria	45
Queensland	28
Western Australia	14
South Australia	13
Tasmania	10
Northern Territory	7

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Figure 28 Effects of the Staff Numbers Management Policy

Year	Staffing level
2000–01	244
2001–02	224
2002–03	218
2003–04	186

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Parliament of Australia. Senate.

Annual Report 2003–04

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