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The Senate StatsNet is currently being redesigned. Updates for the first two sitting weeks of the 43rd Parliament (28 to 30 September and 25 to 28 October 2010) should be available by 12 November 2010. Business of the Senate June 2010 [click here] (as tabled in the Senate on 28 September) and Senate Statistical Summaries Nos 8 [click here] and 9 [click here] are available as pdf files. If you have any statistical inquiries in the interim, please contact the Senate Statistics Officer on 02 6277 3021. |
The Senate StatsNet provides statistical breakdowns of various activities of the Senate.
Weekly Statistical Summaries show the amount of time spent by the Senate in a sitting week on different forms of business, as well as numbers of questions, petitions, divisions, and bills introduced, passed, negatived etc.
Business of the Senate is a more comprehensive summary of matters considered by the Senate during each year.
Business of the Senate Consolidations is a collection of tables and graphs showing comparisons of various statistics over a series of years.
Consideration of legislation gives details of the time spent on legislation, bills passed by the Senate, and bills exempted from the 'cut-off' motion.
Click here for details of government bills that have been considered under a limitation of time since 1983.
Click here for a list of bills that have been debated by the Senate for more than 20 hours (from 1990 to date).
Click here for a list of bills laid aside or negatived, their history and status as possibly meeting the requirements of section 57 of the Constitution for the current parliament.
Days and hours - click here for days and hours of meeting of the Senate.
Divisions - a record of formal votes in the Senate.
Questions on notice - click here for statistics for the current parliament relating to questions on notice asked of each portfolio.
Statistics by Parliament - click here to see a parliament by parliament view of statistics relating to legislation, questions, days and hours of meeting (starting from 1978 with the 31st Parliament).
Orders for the production of documents from previous parliaments - click here to see a list of orders which have not yet been complied with.
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