Number of sitting days

4

34

Average length of a sitting day

10 hrs

10 hrs 15 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 30 mins
(20 August)

17 hrs 23 mins
(28 June)

Shortest sitting day

8 hrs 42 mins
(21 August)

5 hrs
(8 May)

Hours of sitting

40 hrs

348 hrs 25 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

15 hrs 46 mins
10 hrs 01 mins
3 hrs 22 mins
4 hrs 15 mins
3 hrs 03 mins
2 hrs 39 mins
0 hrs 04 mins
4 hrs 12 mins

Questions placed on notice

90^

633*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

111

4 sitting days

836

30 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

27.8

27.9

Petitions presented

2

27

Signatories to petitions

250

67 191

Divisions

18

198

Legislation

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
0

2
13

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

12
0

143
1

Passed in the Senate

15

130

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

1

5

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

0

7

Bills referred to committees

5

61