Number of sitting days

4

32

Average length of a sitting day

10 hrs 12 mins

09 hrs 56 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 25 mins
(10 August)

 13 hrs 00 mins
(25 March)

Shortest sitting day

09 hrs 21 mins
(11 August)

05 hrs 05 mins
(23 March)

Hours of sitting

40 hrs 46 mins

 318 hrs 06 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

 16 hrs 07 mins
                        11 hrs 25 mins
02 hrs 00 mins

04 hrs 20 mins
02 hrs 03 mins
01 hrs 50 mins
00 hrs 49 mins
04 hrs 12 mins

132 hrs 38 mins
                                    87 hrs 25 mins
            13 hrs 12 mins

             32 hrs 57 mins
18 hrs 38 mins
05 hrs 38 mins
            11 hrs 51 mins
            28 hrs 59 mins

Questions placed on notice

95*

1059**

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

126

4 sitting days

1029

31 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

31.5

33.1

35

323

Petitions presented

1

9

Signatories to petitions

6296

49533

Divisions

9

156

* Questions placed on notice from 26 June to 13 August 2015, inclusive

** Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2014 to 13 August 2015, inclusive

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

1
3

4
16

Received from the House of Representatives - government bills

4

103

 0

 0

Passed in the Senate

4

118

Bills negatived

1

5

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

0

20

Bills referred to committees (13 bills referred re time critical motion)

1

60