Number of sitting days

5

23

Average length of a sitting day

9 hrs 49 mins

9 hrs 49 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 59 mins
(21 June)

12 hrs 37 mins
(15 March)

Shortest sitting day

6 hrs 04 mins
(22 June)

5 hrs
(8 May)

Hours of sitting

49 hrs 05 mins

225 hrs 49 mins

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

27 hrs 51 mins
10 hrs 33 mins
2 hrs 21 mins
4 hrs 10 mins
2 hrs 03 mins
0 hrs 08 mins
1 hrs 07 mins
3 hrs 13 min

Questions placed on notice

48^

415*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

114

4 sitting days

563

20 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

28.5

28.2

Petitions presented

4

18

Signatories to petitions

58 516

66 486

Divisions

30

131

Legislation

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
0

2
10

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

53
0

115
0

Passed in the Senate

36

88

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

1

3

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

0

5

Bills referred to committees

21

52