Number of sitting days

4

52

Average length of a sitting day

09 hrs 59 mins

09 hrs 59 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 16 mins
(9 November)

 13 hrs 00 mins
(25 March)

Shortest sitting day

08 hrs 59 mins
(11 November)

05 hrs 05 mins
(23 March)

Hours of sitting

39 hrs 58 mins

 519 hrs 25 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 43 mins
10 hrs 58 mins
02 hrs 21 mins
04 hrs 20 mins
02 hrs 03 mins
00 hrs 04 mins
00 hrs 06 mins
04 hrs 44 mins

219 hrs 41 mins
145 hrs 09 mins
            25 hrs 00 mins
            54 hrs 12 mins
29 hrs 53 mins
06 hrs 10 mins
14 hrs 00 mins
            50 hrs 20 mins

Questions placed on notice

1123**

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

135

4 sitting days

1692

51 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

33.8

33.2

39

487

Petitions presented

1

23

Signatories to petitions

9

53 999

Divisions

15

229

* Questions placed on notice from 16 October to 12 November 2015, inclusive

** Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2014 to 12 November 2015, inclusive

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

1
                        2

7
            22

Received from the House of Representatives - government bills

12

152

 0

 0

Passed in the Senate

11

162

Bills negatived or discharged

0

10

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

0

25

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

6

94