Number of sitting days
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4
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63
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Average length of a sitting day
|
11 hrs 43 mins
|
10 hrs 21 mins
|
Longest sitting day
|
15 hrs 08 mins
(4 December)
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18 hrs 50 mins
(17 and 18 July)
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Shortest sitting day
|
09 hrs 59 mins
(2 December)
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05 hrs 43 mins
(27 October)
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Hours of sitting
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46 hrs 52 mins
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652 hrs 08 mins
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Business conducted in the Senate
- government business
- general business
- including time spent on private senators' bills
- questions without notice
- urgency/MPI
- business of the Senate
- other
- adjournment debate
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28 hrs 21 mins
09 hrs 59 mins
1 hrs 14 mins
04 hrs 05 mins
02 hrs 03 mins
00 hrs 20 mins
00 hrs 28 mins
01 hrs 36 mins
|
234 hrs 34 mins
196 hrs 23 mins
29 hrs 51 mins
64 hrs 38 mins
38 hrs 41 mins
20 hrs 09 mins
26 hrs 22 mins
71 hrs 21 mins
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Questions placed on notice
|
119*
|
1454**
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Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)
|
141
4 sitting days
|
1962
62 sitting days
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Average daily number of questions without notice
|
36.0
|
31.8
|
Notices of motion given |
55
|
680
|
Petitions presented
|
4
|
34
|
Signatories to petitions
|
16 431
|
131 458
|
Divisions
|
34
|
319
|
* Questions placed on notice from 28 November to 4 December 2014 inclusive
** Questions placed on notice from 13 December 2013 to 4 December 2014 inclusive
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