Number of sitting days

4

30 

Average length of a sitting day

9 hrs 44 mins

9 hrs 59 mins

Longest sitting day

10 hrs 22 mins
(7 July)

 11 hrs 28 mins
(17 and 24 March)

Shortest sitting day

9 hrs 10 mins
(8 July)

8 hrs 23 mins
(18 March) 

Hours of sitting

38 hrs 57 mins

 299 hrs 26 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

16 hrs 11 mins
9 hrs 29 mins
0 hrs 0 mins


04 hrs 12 mins
03 hrs 06 mins
00 hrs 00 mins
01 hrs 34 mins
04 hrs 25 mins

 90 hrs 11 mins
98 hrs 16 mins
16 hrs 12 mins


31 hrs 42 mins
20 hrs 33 mins
06 hrs 48 mins
13 hrs 25 mins
38 hrs 31 mins

Questions placed on notice

79 *

718** 

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

123

4 sitting days

921

 30 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

31.5

30.7 

 34

332 

Petitions presented

3

14

Signatories to petitions

2 691

43 156 

Divisions

26

104 

* Questions placed on notice from 27 June to 10 July 2014 inclusive

** Questions placed on notice from 13 December 2013 to 10 July 2014 inclusive

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

1
20

Received from the House of Representatives

 118

Passed in the Senate

 82

Bills negatived

23

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

23

Bills referred to committees

 80