General |
17 to 20 August |
2009 to date |
| Number of sitting days |
4 |
32 |
| Average length of a sitting day |
9 hrs 00 mins |
9 hrs 23 mins |
| Longest sitting day |
10 hrs 18 mins
(19 August) |
23 hrs 44 mins
(19 and 20 March) |
| Shortest sitting day |
8 hrs 04 mins
(18 August) |
0 hrs 45 mins
(9 February) |
| Hours of sitting |
35 hrs 59 mins |
300 hrs 24 mins |
| Business conducted in the Senate
government business
general business
questions without notice
urgency/MPI
business of the Senate
other
adjournment debate |
19 hrs 15 mins
9 hrs 30 mins
4 hrs 24 mins
—
0 hrs 17 mins
0 hrs 08 mins
2 hrs 25 mins |
164 hrs 42 mins
68 hrs 00 mins
29 hrs 45 mins
10 hrs 14 mins
8 hrs 12 mins
4 hrs 19 mins
15 hrs 12 mins |
| Questions placed on notice |
5^ |
943* |
| Questions without notice (including
supplementary questions)
Question time held on: |
108
4 sitting days |
798
28 sitting days |
| Average daily number of questions without notice |
27 |
28.5 |
| Notices of motion given |
25 |
279 |
| Petitions presented |
2 |
30 |
| Signatories to petitions |
31 159 |
64 306 |
| Divisions |
11 |
110 |
|
^ Questions placed on notice from 14 to 20 August 2009 inclusive
* Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2008 to 20 August
2009 inclusive |
Legislation
|
| Introduced in the Senate
government bills
private senators' bills |
0
2 |
5
11 |
| Received from the House of Representatives |
8 |
120 |
| Passed in the Senate |
3 |
81 |
| Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper |
1 |
29 |
| Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' |
0 |
25 |
| Bills referred to committees |
2 |
82 |
