Number of sitting days

4

7

Average length of a sitting day

10 hrs 25 mins

10 hrs 02 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 28 mins
(25 February)

11 hrs 28 mins
(25 February)

Shortest sitting day

9 hrs 30 mins
(26 November)

9 hrs 05 mins
(5 February)

Hours of sitting

41 hrs 39 mins

70 hrs 13 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

13 hrs 47 mins
15 hrs 23 mins
4 hrs 08 mins
3 hrs 28 mins
3 hrs 08 min
0 hrs 04 mins
1 hr 24 mins
4 hrs 25 mins

Questions placed on notice

109^

216*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

90

4 sitting days

174

7 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

22.5

24.9

Petitions presented

3

3

Signatories to petitions

12 090

12 090

Divisions

14

25

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
5

1
6

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

8
0

16
0

Passed in the Senate

11

14

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

2

2

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

1

1

Bills referred to committees

3

4