Number of sitting days

4

22 

Average length of a sitting day

10 hrs 06 mins

10 hrs 00 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 09 mins
(17 June)

 11 hrs 28 mins
(17 and 24 March)

Shortest sitting day

9 hrs 27 mins
(19 June)

8 hrs 23 mins
(18 March) 

Hours of sitting

40 hrs 23 mins

 219 hrs 55 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

9 hrs 46 mins
12 hrs 19 mins
2 hrs 20 mins


04 hrs 06 mins
02 hrs 50 mins
01 hrs 22 mins
03 hrs 53 mins
06 hrs 07 mins

 60 hrs 50 mins
77 hrs 19 mins
13 hrs 52 mins


23 hrs 11 mins
16 hrs 04 mins
06 hrs 09 mins
07 hrs 26 mins
28 hrs 56 mins

Questions placed on notice

30 *

621** 

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

117

4 sitting days

 660

 22 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

29.3

30.0 

 44

260 

Petitions presented

1

 7

Signatories to petitions

143

38 390 

Divisions

8

43 

* Questions placed on notice from 16 May to 19 June 2014 inclusive

** Questions placed on notice from 13 December 2013 to 19 June 2014 inclusive

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

1
18

Received from the House of Representatives

 84

Passed in the Senate

 60

Bills negatived

14

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

19

Bills referred to committees

 67