Number of sitting days

4

8

Average length of a sitting day

10 hrs 27 mins

10 hrs 25 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 25 mins
(2 March)

 11 hrs 26 mins
(9 February)

Shortest sitting day

08 hrs 54 mins
(3 March)

08 hrs 40 mins
(10 February) 

Hours of sitting

41 hrs 50 mins

 83 hrs 20 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

13 hrs 46 mins
14 hrs 04 mins
02 hrs 21 mins

04 hrs 15 mins
03 hrs 05 mins
00 hrs 41 mins
00 hrs 37 mins
05 hrs 22 mins

28 hrs 19 mins
27 hrs 38 mins
04 hrs 41 mins

08 hrs 27 mins
06 hrs 17 mins
00 hrs 53 mins
01 hrs 39 mins
10 hrs 07 mins

Questions placed on notice

72*

421**

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

138

4 sitting days

261

8 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

34.5

32.6

 32

71

Petitions presented

0

0

Signatories to petitions

0

0

Divisions

13

29

* Questions placed on notice from 13 February to 5 March 2015, inclusive

** Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2014 to 5 March 2015 inclusive

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
3

0
6

Received from the House of Representatives - government bills

15

 21

 0

 0

Passed in the Senate

12

26

Bills negatived

1

1

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

1

1

Bills referred to committees

9

16