Number of sitting days
|
4
|
32
|
Average length of a sitting day
|
10 hrs 12 mins
|
09 hrs 56 mins
|
Longest sitting day
|
11 hrs 25 mins
(10 August)
|
13 hrs 00 mins
(25 March)
|
Shortest sitting day
|
09 hrs 21 mins
(11 August)
|
05 hrs 05 mins
(23 March)
|
Hours of sitting
|
40 hrs 46 mins
|
318 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
|
16 hrs 07 mins
11 hrs 25 mins
02 hrs 00 mins
04 hrs 20 mins
02 hrs 03 mins
01 hrs 50 mins
00 hrs 49 mins
04 hrs 12 mins
|
132 hrs 38 mins
87 hrs 25 mins
13 hrs 12 mins
32 hrs 57 mins
18 hrs 38 mins
05 hrs 38 mins
11 hrs 51 mins
28 hrs 59 mins
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Questions placed on notice
|
95*
|
1059**
|
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)
|
126
4 sitting days
|
1029
31 sitting days
|
Average daily number of questions without notice
|
31.5
|
33.1
|
Notices of motion given |
35
|
323
|
Petitions presented
|
1
|
9
|
Signatories to petitions
|
6296
|
49533
|
Divisions
|
9
|
156
|
* Questions placed on notice from 26 June to 13 August 2015, inclusive
** Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2014 to 13 August 2015, inclusive
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