Number of sitting days

4

11 

Average length of a sitting day

9 hrs 45 mins

9 hrs 52 mins 

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 28 mins
(17 March)

 11 hrs 38 mins
(17 March)

Shortest sitting day

8 hrs 23 mins
(18 March)

8 hrs 23 mins
(18 March) 

Hours of sitting

39 hrs 02 mins

 108 hrs 29 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

10 hrs 32 mins
14 hrs 04 mins
2 hrs 20 mins
04 hrs 26 mins
03 hrs 02 mins
01 hrs 47 mins
01 hrs 23 mins
03 hrs 48 mins

 30 hrs 07 mins
40 hrs 30 mins
6 hrs 52 mins
11 hrs 25 mins
08 hrs 08 mins
03 hrs 36 mins
02 hr 29 mins
12 hrs 14 mins

Questions placed on notice

55 *

285** 

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

119

4 sitting days

 321

 11 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

29.8

29.2 

 34

128 

Petitions presented

0

 3

Signatories to petitions

0

22 837 

Divisions

14

31 

* Questions placed on notice from 7 to 20 March 2014 inclusive

** Questions placed on notice from 13 December 2013 to 20 March 2014 inclusive

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
12

Received from the House of Representatives

 27

Passed in the Senate

 19

Bills negatived

11

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

15

Bills referred to committees

 11