Number of sitting days

3

29

Average length of a sitting day

7 hrs 52 mins

9 hrs 56 mins

Longest sitting day

10 hrs 20 mins
(13 November)

13 hrs 45 mins
(25 June)

Shortest sitting day

3 hrs 42 mins
(12 November)

3 hrs 42 mins
(12 November)

Hours of sitting

23 hrs 35 mins

288 hrs 16 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

5 hrs 42 mins
8 hrs 01 mins
0 mins
2 hrs 16 mins
1 hr 08 mins
 53 mins
2 hrs 53 mins
2 hrs 42 mins

Questions placed on notice

22^

396*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

66

2 sitting days

732

27 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

33.0

27.1

Petitions presented

1

15

Signatories to petitions

714

34 102

Divisions

15

187

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

2
3

5
28

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

1
0

143
0

Passed in the Senate

1

136

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

0

7

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

1

27

Bills referred to committees

17

87