General |
10 to 12 March |
2009 to date |
| Number of sitting days |
3 |
10 |
| Average length of a sitting day |
9 hrs 41 mins |
8 hrs 22 mins |
| Longest sitting day |
10 hrs 28 mins
(10 March) |
10 hrs 28 mins
(10 March) |
| Shortest sitting day |
8 hrs 49 mins
(12 March) |
0 hrs 45 mins
(9 February) |
| Hours of sitting |
29 hrs 02 mins |
83 hrs 37 mins |
| Business conducted in the Senate
government business
general business
questions without notice
urgency/MPI
business of the Senate
other
adjournment debate |
16 hrs 33 mins
6 hrs 24 mins
3 hrs 08 mins
0 hrs 58 mins
—
0 hrs 10 mins
1 hr 49 mins |
56 hrs 06 mins
13 hrs 25 mins
6 hrs 24 mins
2 hrs 00 mins
—
1 hr 41 mins
4 hrs 01 min |
| Questions placed on notice |
135^ |
267* |
| Questions without notice (including
supplementary questions)
Question time held on: |
92
3 sitting days |
181
6 sitting days |
| Average daily number of questions without notice |
30.7 |
30.2 |
| Petitions presented |
1 |
7 |
| Signatories to petitions |
132 |
12 218 |
| Divisions |
8 |
26 |
|
^ Questions placed on notice from 16 February to 12 March
2009 inclusive
* Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2008 to 12 March
2009 inclusive |
Legislation
|
| Introduced in the Senate
government bills
private senators' bills |
0
0 |
0
0 |
| Received from the House of Representatives |
14 |
38 |
| Passed in the Senate |
10 |
21 |
| Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper |
1 |
10 |
| Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' |
0 |
12 |
| Bills referred to committees |
0 |
13 |
