Number of sitting days

3

10

Average length of a sitting day

9 hrs 23 mins

9 hrs 50 mins

Longest sitting day

10 hrs 10 mins
(14 March)

11 hrs 28 mins
(25 February)

Shortest sitting day

8 hrs
(12 March)

8 hrs
(12 March)

Hours of sitting

28 hrs 08 mins

98 hrs 21 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

8 hrs 27 mins
11 hrs 39 mins
2 hrs 20 mins
3 hrs 07 mins
2 hrs 06 min
0 hrs 01 min
0 hrs 14 mins
2 hrs 34 mins

Questions placed on notice

35^

251*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

78

3 sitting days

252

10 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

26.0

25.2

Petitions presented

3

6

Signatories to petitions

11 956

24 046

Divisions

10

35

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

2
3

3
9

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

5
0

21
0

Passed in the Senate

7

21

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

0

2

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

2

3

Bills referred to committees

17

21