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Home Parliamentary Business Statistics Senate StatsNet Classic Consolidations Divisions 1991–2011

Divisions 1991–2011

In this section
  • Senate StatsNet Classic
    • Legislation
    • Documents
    • Statements
    • General
    • Consolidations
      • Second reading amendments 1991–2011
      • Committee of the Whole—amendments and requests moved 1991–2011
      • Days and hours of sitting 1991–2011
      • Notices of motion for disallowance 1991–2011
      • Divisions 1991–2011
      • General statistics 1991–2011
      • Legislation—general 1991–2011
      • Bills discharged, laid aside or negatived 1991–2011
      • Graphs 1991–2011
      • Proportion of time spent according to the type of business 1991–2011
      • Questions 1991–2011

Graph showing the number of divisions from 1991-2011. Data for this graph can be found in the table below.

  Committee Senate Total
1991 50 100 150
1992 104 117 221
1993* 81 88 169
1994 73 73 146
1995 47 68 115
1996* 114 83 197
1997 156 133 289
1998* 94 122 216
1999 107 117 224
2000 59 56 115
2001* 17 49 66
2002 61 101 162
2003 37 82 119
2004* 41 92 133
2005 55 162 217
2006 81 218 299
2007* 48 149 197
2008 51 100 151
2009 58 144 202
2010* 35 117 152
2011 68 209 277

* Indicates an election year

In this section
  • Senate StatsNet Classic
    • Legislation
    • Documents
    • Statements
    • General
    • Consolidations
      • Second reading amendments 1991–2011
      • Committee of the Whole—amendments and requests moved 1991–2011
      • Days and hours of sitting 1991–2011
      • Notices of motion for disallowance 1991–2011
      • Divisions 1991–2011
      • General statistics 1991–2011
      • Legislation—general 1991–2011
      • Bills discharged, laid aside or negatived 1991–2011
      • Graphs 1991–2011
      • Proportion of time spent according to the type of business 1991–2011
      • Questions 1991–2011
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