TASMANIAN STATISTICS

MEMBERS

Legislative Assembly - 25 (14 ALP; 10 Liberal/National; 1 Independents)
Legislative Council - 15 (4 ALP; 10 Independent; 1 Independent Labor)

SITTING PATTERN

Autumn session - Mid March to end of June*
Spring Session - Mid August to early December

* One sitting week in February for GBE committees - Estimates-style examination of government business enterprises - for example, TT-Line, Aurora Energy etc.

SITTING HOURS

Day	Legislative Council	House of Assembly
Tuesday	2.30 p.m. - 9.00 p.m.	10.00 a.m. - 6.30 p.m.
Wednesday	11.00 a.m. - 6.30 p.m.	10.00 a.m. - 6.30 p.m.
Thursday	11.00 a.m. - 6.30 p.m.	10.00 a.m. - 6.30 p.m.

HOUSE SITTINGS

	Council		Assembly
	Autumn 20.02.01-28.06.01	Spring 21.08.01-21.12.01	Autumn 27.02.01-14.06.01	Spring 16.08.01-29.11.01
Sitting weeks	12	8	11	9
Sitting days	25	24	34	24
After 10 p.m.	2	1	1	2
Total hours	95 hrs 58 min	94 hrs 44 min	248 hrs 42 min	173 hrs 57 min
Avg per day	4 hrs 24 min	4 hrs 34 min	7 hrs 35 min	7 hrs 15 min
Longest day	8 hrs 3 min	7 hrs 14 min	10 hrs 44 min	16 hrs 23 min

COMMITTEES

Type	Number	Pages	Hours
Full-day hearing	9	763	65 hrs 00 min
Part-day hearing	29	936	63 hrs 10 min
Interstate hearings	5	282	18 hrs 40 min
TOTAL	43	1981	146 hrs 50 min

SALARIES

Permanent staff*

Editor (1)	$70 454 p.a. (No overtime)
Senior Subeditor (1)	$55 378 p.a. (No overtime)
Keyboard supervisor/office manager (1)	$41 350 p.a. (Includes overtime after 7 p.m.)

Casual staff

Subeditor (3)	$26.7194 to $28.8352 per hour (no overtime)
Keyboarders (10)	$22.2662 per hour (no overtime)
Keyboarders (4)	$23.1936 per hour (no overtime)

* Note: Salaries do not include employer superannuation contributions

LEAVE ENTITLEMENTS

Editor and senior sub-editor	Six weeks annual leave
Keyboard supervisor	Four weeks annual leave
	22 full working days sick leave Three months long service leave after 10 yrs