Number of sitting days
|
4
|
40
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Average length of a sitting day
|
10 hrs 11 mins
|
10 hrs 00 mins
|
Longest sitting day
|
11 hrs 19 mins
(7 September)
|
13 hrs 00 mins
(25 March)
|
Shortest sitting day
|
09 hrs 15 mins
(8 September)
|
05 hrs 05 mins
(23 March)
|
Hours of sitting
|
40 hrs 46 mins
|
400 hrs 06 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
|
17 hrs 20 mins
12 hrs 29 mins
02 hrs 27 mins
04 hrs 16 mins
02 hrs 02 mins
00 hrs 08 mins
00 hrs 33 mins
03 hrs 58 mins
|
167 hrs 23 mins
111 hrs 36 mins
17 hrs 59 mins
41 hrs 38 mins
22 hrs 45 mins
05 hrs 52 mins
13 hrs 19 mins
37 hrs 33 mins
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Questions placed on notice
|
24*
|
1085**
|
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)
|
120
4 sitting days
|
1290
39 sitting days
|
Average daily number of questions without notice
|
30.0
|
33.1
|
Notices of motion given |
26
|
380
|
Petitions presented
|
1
|
12
|
Signatories to petitions
|
110
|
50 747
|
Divisions
|
9
|
177
|
* Questions placed on notice from 21 August to 10 September 2015, inclusive
** Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2014 to 10 September 2015, inclusive
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