Number of sitting days

4

37

Average length of a sitting day

9 hrs 59 mins

9 hrs 58 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 22 mins
(9 December)

13 hrs 45 mins
(25 June)

Shortest sitting day

9 hrs 11 mins
(10 December)

3 hrs 42 mins
(12 November)

Hours of sitting

39 hrs 55 mins

368 hrs 48 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

14 hrs 11 mins
11 hrs 38 mins
2 hrs 22 mins
4 hrs 16 mins
3 hrs 06 mins
 1 hr 08 mins
1 hr 31 mins
4 hrs 05 mins

Questions placed on notice

6^

416*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

120

4 sitting days

978

35 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

30.0

27.9

Petitions presented

5

24

Signatories to petitions

10 965

50 949

Divisions

16

213

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
6

5
35

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

6
0

176
0

Passed in the Senate

12

149

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

1

8

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

0

27

Bills referred to committees

8

100