General statistics—2000

  Autumn Budget/Winter Spring Summer Total
Number of sitting days 19 15 12 25 71
Hours of sitting 159 hrs 03 mins 133 hrs 23 mins 103 hrs 15 mins 236 hrs 09 mins 631 hrs 50 mins
Average length of a sitting day 8 hrs 22 mins 8 hrs 53 mins 8 hrs 36 mins 9 hrs 26 mins 8 hrs 53 mins
Longest sitting day 10 hrs 20 mins
(6 March 2000)
15 hrs 18 mins
(29 June 2000)
10 hrs 21 mins
(30 August 2000)
19 hrs 45 mins
(7 December 2000)
 
Shortest sitting day 4 hrs 41 mins
(7 March 2000)
4 hrs 36 mins
(9 May 2000)
5 hrs 25 mins
(15 August 2000)
4 hrs 00 mins
( 10 October 2000)
 
Questions placed on notice 314
(1/1 - 13/4)
386
(14/4 - 30/6)
351
(1/7 - 7/9)
341
(8/9 - 31/12)
1 392
Questions without notice* 430 336 287 520 1573
Question time held on: 19 sitting days 15 sitting days 12 sitting days 23 sitting days 69 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice* 22.6 22.3 24 22.6 22.8
Petitions presented 57 45 22 26 150
Signatories to petitions 42 371 194 069 162 306 40 262 439 008
Delegated legislation - Notices of motion for disallowance:
Given 31 30 19 32 112
Agreed to 1 2 7 4 14
Negatived 3 0 8 6 18
Withdrawn 9 25 14 37 85
Still before the Senate 19 29 19 2 N/A
Statements by the President and the Chair of Committees 3 12 4 4 23
Ministerial statements 3 1 1 3 8
Matters of public importance 1 1 0 0 2
Urgency motions 3 0 2 2 7
Principal motions agreed to 41 19 24 30 113
Condolence motions 0 0 0 0 0
Censure motions 1 0 0 0 1
Orders for the production of documents 6 6 4 6 22
Government responses to committee reports tabled 7 8 6 13 35
Divisions 26 11 27 51 115

* Includes supplementary questions.