General statistics—2008
| |
Autumn/Autumn (2) |
Budget/Winter |
Spring/Spring (2) |
Total |
| Number of sitting days |
10 |
11 |
31 |
52 |
| 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| Withdrawn |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.