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Annual Report 2006–07

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Output Group 1

Figure 3 Written advices provided by the Clerk, 2006–07
Type Percentage
Privilege—advices to Privileges Committee 1%
Privilege—advices to President 9%
Privilege—other advices 19%
Other advices to President and Deputy President 19%
Advices to other senators 31%
Advices to Senate committees 8%
Submissions to committees 2%
Advices to other persons and bodies 12%

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Figure 4 Number of advices provided by the Clerk’s Office, 2002–03 to 2006–07
2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07
73 116 141 149 127

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Output Group 2

Figure 6 Senate legislative activity, 2002–03 to 2006–07
2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07
Number of bills which passed both Houses 158 191 139 154 207
Number of bills to which amendments were moved 63 103 57 71 78
Number of bills to which amendments were agreed 44 74 36 18 37

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Figure 7 Amendments moved and agreed to by the Senate 2002–03 to 2006–07
2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07
Amendments moved 1,045 2,313 497 1,627 1,423
Amendments agreed to 630 1457 264 627 673

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Figure 8 Running sheets, 2002–03 to 2006–07
2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07
Number of bills 29 41 15 31 31
Number of pages 172 112 46 78 53

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Figure 9 Government legislation introduced in the Senate, 2002–03 to 2006–07
2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07
Number of government bills introduced in the Senate 8 7 32 24 21
Number of third reading prints produced 2 4 13 3 10

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Figure 10 Questions on notice, 2002–03 to 2006–07
Year No. of questions
on notice
2002–03 1,189
2003–04 1,459
2004–05 1,145
2005–06 1,106
2006–07 1,728

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Output Group 3

Figure 12 Students who visited the PEO Education Centre, 2002–03 to 2006–07
2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07
Total no. of students 78,572 80,440 82,034 81,072 87,113

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Figure 13 School groups that visited the PEO Education Centre, 2002–03 to 2006–07
2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07
Total no. of school groups 2,305 2,324 2,418 2,406 2,494

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Output Group 4

Figure 16 Committee meetings by location, 2006–07
State Meetings
ACT 389
ACT (Estimates) 70
NSW 27
Victoria 28
Queensland 14
WA 12
SA 6
Tasmania 1
NT 3

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Management and accountability

Figure 20 Full-time equivalent staff numbers, 2002–03 to 2006–07
2002–03 162
2003–04 167
2004–05 160
2005–06 152
2006–07 150

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