Number of sitting days

4

48

Average length of a sitting day

10 hrs 03 mins

09 hrs 59 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 11 mins
(12 October)

 13 hrs 00 mins
(25 March)

Shortest sitting day

09 hrs 14 mins
(13 October)

05 hrs 05 mins
(23 March)

Hours of sitting

40 hrs 13 mins

 479 hrs 27 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 53 mins
11 hrs 41 mins
02 hrs 20 mins
04 hrs 06 mins
02 hrs 06 mins
00 hrs 14 mins
00 hrs 31 mins
03 hrs 42 mins

201 hrs 58 mins
134 hrs 11 mins
            22 hrs 39 mins
49 hrs 52 mins
27 hrs 50 mins
06 hrs 06 mins
13 hrs 54 mins
45 hrs 36 mins

Questions placed on notice

11*

1098**

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

138

4 sitting days

1557

47 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

34.5

33.1

39

448

Petitions presented

2

22

Signatories to petitions

299

53 990

Divisions

26

214

* Questions placed on notice from 18 September to 15 October 2015, inclusive

** Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2014 to 15 October 2015, inclusive

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

2
            1

6
            20

Received from the House of Representatives - government bills

16

140

 0

 0

Passed in the Senate

12

151

Bills negatived or discharged

1

10

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

0

25

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

8

88