Number of sitting days

5

26

Average length of a sitting day

11 hrs 13 mins

10 hrs 11 mins

Longest sitting day

13 hrs 45 mins
(25 June)

13 hrs 45 mins
(25 June)

Shortest sitting day

6 hrs 07 mins
(28 June)

6 hrs 07 mins
(28 June)

Hours of sitting

56 hrs 06 mins

264 hrs 41 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

33 hrs 11 mins
10 hrs 02 mins
2 hrs 26 mins
4 hrs 09 mins
nil
0 hrs 13 mins
3 hrs 31 mins
5 hrs

Questions placed on notice

7^

374*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

114

4 sitting days

666

25 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

28.5

26.6

Petitions presented

6

14

Signatories to petitions

8 182

33 388

Divisions

66

172

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
7

3
25

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

17
0

142
0

Passed in the Senate

55

135

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

1

7

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

0

26

Bills referred to committees

4

70