General statistics—2008

  Autumn/Autumn (2) Budget/Winter Spring/Spring (2) Total
Number of sitting days 10 11 31 52
Hours of sitting 84 hrs 02 mins 106 hrs 10 mins 291 hrs 25 mins 481 hrs 37 mins
Average length of a sitting day 8 hrs 24 mins 9 hrs 39 mins 9 hrs 24 mins 9 hrs 16 mins
Longest sitting day 10 hrs 25 mins
(19 March)
11 hrs 18 mins
(19 June)
15 hrs 41 mins
(4 December)
N/A
Shortest sitting day 2 hrs 58 mins
(12 February)
6 hrs 40 mins
(13 May)
4 hrs 57 mins
(26 August)
N/A
Questions placed on notice 383
(12/2 - 20/3)
129
(21/3 - 30/6)
698
(1/7 - 31/12)
1210
Questions without notice* 185 217 648 1050+
Question time held on: 9 sitting days 11 sitting days 31 sitting days 51 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice* 20.6 19.7 20.9 20.6
Petitions presented 14 18 21 53
Signatories to petitions 1 819 63 774 50 178 115 771
Delegated legislation - Notices of motion for disallowance:
Given 2 14 16 32
Agreed to 0 3 0 3
Negatived 0 0 1 1
Withdrawn 0 5 23 28
Still before the Senate 2 8 0 N/A
Statements by the President, Deputy President and the Chair of Committees 3 4 11 18
Ministerial statements 9 28 33 70
Matters of public importance 0 0 9 9
Urgency motions 1 0 1 2
Principal motions agreed to 20 30 69 119
Condolence motions 5 4 6 15
Censure motions 0 0 0 0
Orders for the production of documents 0 5 4 9
Government responses to committee reports tabled 0 3 14 17
Divisions 19 30 102 151

* Includes supplementary questions.
+ On 24 November the format of question time was changed to allow 2 supplementaries per question.

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