General |
1 to 4 December 2008 |
2008 |
| Number of sitting days |
4 |
52 |
| Average length of a sitting day |
11 hrs 34 mins |
9 hrs 16 mins |
| Longest sitting day |
15 hrs 41 mins
(4 December 2008) |
15 hrs 41 mins
(4 December 2008) |
| Shortest sitting day |
10 hrs 02 mins
(1 December 2008) |
2 hrs 58 mins
(12 February 2008) |
| Hours of sitting |
46 hrs 15 mins |
481 hrs 37 mins |
| Business conducted in the Senate
government business
general business
questions without notice
urgency/MPI
business of the Senate
other
adjournment debate |
25 hrs 42 mins
8 hrs 44 mins
4 hrs 12 mins
—
3 hrs 19 mins
2 hrs 32 mins
1 hr 46 mins |
224 hrs 41 mins
119 hrs 58 mins
54 hrs 43 mins
10 hrs 54 mins
14 hrs 49 mins
32 hrs 30 mins
24 hrs 02 mins |
| Questions placed on notice |
124^ |
1166* |
| Questions without notice (including
supplementary questions)+
Question time held on: |
116
4 sitting days |
1050
51 sitting days |
| Average daily number of questions without notice |
29 |
20.6 |
| Petitions presented |
0 |
53 |
| Signatories to petitions |
0 |
115 771 |
| Divisions |
22 |
151 |
|
^ Questions placed on notice from 28 November to 4 December
2008 inclusive
* Questions placed on notice from 12 February to 4 December
2008 inclusive
+ On 24 November 2008 the format of question
time was changed to include 2 supplementaries per question |
Legislation
|
| Introduced in the Senate
government bills
private senators' bills |
4
1 |
17
34 |
| Received from the House of Representatives |
5 |
165 |
| Passed in the Senate |
16 |
164 |
| Bills negatived or discharged from the Notice Paper |
1 |
15 |
| Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' |
5 |
37 |
| Bills referred to committees |
8 |
92 |
| Bills restored to Notice Paper |
0 |
40 |
