Number of sitting days
|
4
|
44
|
Average length of a sitting day
|
09 hrs 47 mins
|
09 hrs 59 mins
|
Longest sitting day
|
10 hrs 18 mins
(16 September)
|
13 hrs 00 mins
(25 March)
|
Shortest sitting day
|
08 hrs 55 mins
(17 September)
|
05 hrs 05 mins
(23 March)
|
Hours of sitting
|
39 hrs 08 mins
|
439 hrs 14 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 42 mins
10 hrs 54 mins
02 hrs 20 mins
04 hrs 08 mins
02 hrs 59 mins
00 hrs 00 mins
00 hrs 04 mins
04 hrs 21 mins
|
184 hrs 05 mins
122 hrs 30 mins
20 hrs 19 mins
45 hrs 46 mins
25 hrs 44 mins
05 hrs 52 mins
13 hrs 23 mins
41 hrs 54 mins
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Questions placed on notice
|
2*
|
1087**
|
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)
|
129
4 sitting days
|
1419
43 sitting days
|
Average daily number of questions without notice
|
32.3
|
33.0
|
Notices of motion given |
29
|
409
|
Petitions presented
|
8
|
20
|
Signatories to petitions
|
2 944
|
53 691
|
Divisions
|
11
|
188
|
* Questions placed on notice from 11 September to 17 September 2015, inclusive
** Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2014 to 17 September 2015, inclusive
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