Number of sitting days

4

11

Average length of a sitting day

10 hrs 00 mins

10 hrs 05 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 30 mins
(29 February)

 11 hrs 30 mins
(29 February)

Shortest sitting day

08 hrs 34 mins
(1 March)

08 hrs 34 mins
(1 March) 

Hours of sitting

39 hrs 58 mins

 110 hrs 56 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 40 mins
15 hrs 12 mins
02 hrs 20 mins

04 hrs 11 mins
03 hrs 09 mins
00 hrs 09 mins
00 hrs 06 mins
03 hrs 31 mins

34 hrs 58 mins
42 hrs 00 mins
07 hrs 00 mins

11 hrs 27 mins
08 hrs 19 mins
01 hrs 42 mins
01 hrs 16 mins
11 hrs 14 mins

Questions placed on notice

4*

195**

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

149

4 sitting days

401

11 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

37.3

36.5

32

89

Petitions presented

1

6

Signatories to petitions

88 968

111 036

Divisions

24

57

* Questions placed on notice from 26 February to 3 March 2016, inclusive

** Questions placed on notice from 4 December 2015 to 3 March 2016 inclusive

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

1
                        4

1
                        4

Received from the House of Representatives - government bills

8

 42

 0

 0

Passed in the Senate

5

25

Bills negatived

0

0

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

7

12

Bills referred to committees

4

18