Number of sitting days

3

17

Average length of a sitting day

9 hrs 31 mins

9 hrs 45 mins

Longest sitting day

10 hrs 28 mins
(15 May)

12 hrs 14 mins
(20 March)

Shortest sitting day

8 hrs 14 mins
(14 May)

6 hrs 17 mins
(21 March)

Hours of sitting

28 hrs 34 mins

165 hrs 43 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

11 hrs 41 mins
7 hrs 17 mins
nil
3 hrs 06 mins
2 hrs 02 mins
0 hrs 38 mins
0 hrs 23 mins
3 hrs 27 mins

Questions placed on notice

86^

339*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

81

3 sitting days

435

17 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

27.0

25.6

Petitions presented

2

8

Signatories to petitions

1 160

25 206

Divisions

16

72

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
4

3
15

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

30
0

62
0

Passed in the Senate

23

55

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

3

5

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

13

26

Bills referred to committees

4

45