Number of sitting days

4

33

Average length of a sitting day

10 hrs 09 mins

9 hrs 58 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 25 mins
(2 December)

13 hrs 45 mins
(25 June)

Shortest sitting day

9 hrs 16 mins
(3 December)

3 hrs 42 mins
(12 November)

Hours of sitting

40 hrs 37 mins

328 hrs 53 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 36 mins
11 hrs 42 mins
2 hrs 20 mins
4 hrs 06 mins
3 hrs 04 mins
 5 hrs 06 mins
38 mins
4 hrs 25 mins

Questions placed on notice

6^

411*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

126

4 sitting days

858

31 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

31.5

27.7

Petitions presented

4

19

Signatories to petitions

5 882

39 984

Divisions

10

197

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
1

5
29

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

27
0

170
0

Passed in the Senate

1

137

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

0

7

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

1

27

Bills referred to committees

7

92