Number of sitting days

4

38

Average length of a sitting day

9 hrs 53 mins

10 hrs 13 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 26 mins
(10 September)

17 hrs 23 mins
(28 June)

Shortest sitting day

8 hrs 27 mins
(11 September)

5 hrs
(8 May)

Hours of sitting

39 hrs 33 mins

387 hrs 58 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

15 hrs 23 mins
12 hrs 26 mins
2 hrs 21 mins
4 hrs 09 mins
3 hrs 04 mins
0 hrs 25 mins
0 hrs 12 mins
3 hrs 54 mins

Questions placed on notice

49^

683*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

111

4 sitting days

947

34 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

27.8

27.9

Petitions presented

1

28

Signatories to petitions

1

67 192

Divisions

29

227

Legislation

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
4

2
17

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

10
0

153
1

Passed in the Senate

11

141

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

1

6

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

2

9

Bills referred to committees

1

62