Number of sitting days

4

60

Average length of a sitting day

11 hrs 46 mins

10 hrs 08 mins

Longest sitting day

14 hrs 02 mins
(3 December)

 14 hrs 02 mins
(3 December)

Shortest sitting day

10 hrs 24 mins
(2 December)

05 hrs 05 mins
(23 March)

Hours of sitting

47 hrs 04 mins

 607 hrs 55 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

 27 hrs 52 mins
            08 hrs 53 mins
00 hrs 00 mins
04 hrs 26 mins
02 hrs 05 mins
00 hrs 22 mins
00 hrs 05 mins
03 hrs 21 mins

264 hrs 13 mins
165 hrs 32 mins
            27 hrs 21 mins
                                    62 hrs 52 mins
            35 hrs 01 mins
07 hrs 48 mins
14 hrs 10 mins
            58 hrs 19 mins

Questions placed on notice

1283**

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

144

4 sitting days

1983

59 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

36.0

33.6

48

579

Petitions presented

0

25

Signatories to petitions

0

56 913

Divisions

25

280

* Questions placed on notice from 27 November to 3 December 2015, inclusive

** Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2014 to 3 December 2015, inclusive

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

2
                                                2

10
            25

Received from the House of Representatives - government bills

5

165

 0

 0

Passed in the Senate

8

181

Bills negatived or discharged

0

11

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

4

30

Bills referred to committees (13 bills referred re time critical motion)

13

109