Number of sitting days

4

14

Average length of a sitting day

9 hrs 42 mins

9 hrs 48 mins

Longest sitting day

12 hrs 14 mins
(20 March)

12 hrs 14 mins
(20 March)

Shortest sitting day

6 hrs 17 mins
(21 March)

6 hrs 17 mins
(21 March)

Hours of sitting

38 hrs 48 mins

137 hrs 09 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

20 hrs 03 mins
8 hrs 28 mins
2 hrs 20 mins
3 hrs 52 mins
2 hrs 03 mins
0 hrs 05 mins
0 hrs 23 mins
3 hrs 54 mins

Questions placed on notice

2^

253*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

102

4 sitting days

354

14 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

25.5

25.3

Petitions presented

0

6

Signatories to petitions

0

24 046

Divisions

21

56

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
2

3
11

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

11
0

32
0

Passed in the Senate

11

32

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

0

2

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

10

13

Bills referred to committees

20

41