Number of sitting days

4

26 

Average length of a sitting day

10 hrs 09 mins

10 hrs 01 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 24 mins
(23 June)

 11 hrs 28 mins
(17 and 24 March)

Shortest sitting day

9 hrs 26 mins
(24 June)

8 hrs 23 mins
(18 March) 

Hours of sitting

40 hrs 34 mins

 260 hrs 29 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

13 hrs 10 mins
11 hrs 28 mins
2 hrs 20 mins


04 hrs 19 mins
01 hrs 23 mins
00 hrs 39 mins
04 hrs 25 mins
05 hrs 10 mins

 74 hrs 00 mins
88 hrs 47 mins
16 hrs 12 mins


27 hrs 30 mins
17 hrs 27 mins
06 hrs 48 mins
11 hrs 51 mins
34 hrs 06 mins

Questions placed on notice

18 *

639** 

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

138

4 sitting days

798

 26 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

33.8

30.6 

 38

298 

Petitions presented

4

 11

Signatories to petitions

2 075

40 465 

Divisions

22

78 

* Questions placed on notice from 20 to 26 June 2014 inclusive

** Questions placed on notice from 13 December 2013 to 26 June 2014 inclusive

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

1
19

Received from the House of Representatives

 107

Passed in the Senate

 81

Bills negatived

14

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

23

Bills referred to committees

 80