Number of sitting days

3

30

Average length of a sitting day

10 hrs 47 mins

10 hrs 17 mins

Longest sitting day

13 hrs 34 mins
(16 August)

17 hrs 23 mins
(28 June)

Shortest sitting day

8 hrs 26 mins
(14 August)

5 hrs
(8 May)

Hours of sitting

32 hrs 22 mins

308 hrs 25 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

17 hrs 05 mins
6 hrs 05 mins
nil
3 hrs 07 mins
1 hrs 59 mins
0 hrs 00 mins
0 hrs 43 mins
3 hrs 23 mins

Questions placed on notice

72^

543*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

81

3 sitting days

725

26 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

27.0

27.9

Petitions presented

2

25

Signatories to petitions

49

66 941

Divisions

18

180

Legislation

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
1

2
13

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

6
0

131
1

Passed in the Senate

3

115

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

0

4

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

0

7

Bills referred to committees

1

56