General
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2012 to date
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Number of sitting days
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Average length of a sitting day
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Longest sitting day
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10 hrs 08 mins
(9 February)
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Shortest sitting day
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9 hrs 09 mins
(7 February)
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Hours of sitting
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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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5 hrs 01 mins
14 hrs 43 mins
2 hrs 20 mins
3 hr 07 mins
2 hrs 01 mins
0 hrs 50 mins
3 hrs 41 mins
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Questions placed on notice
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Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)
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Average daily number of questions without notice
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| Notices of motion given |
46
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Petitions presented
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Signatories to petitions
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Divisions
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| * Questions placed on notice from 28 November 2011 to 9 February 2012 inclusive |
Legislation
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Introduced in the Senate
- government bills
- private senators' bills
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Received from the House of Representatives
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Passed in the Senate
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Bills negatived
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Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'
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Bills referred to committees
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