Number of sitting days
|
4
|
36
|
Average length of a sitting day
|
10 hrs 19 mins
|
09 hrs 59 mins
|
Longest sitting day
|
11 hrs 14 mins
(17 August)
|
13 hrs 00 mins
(25 March)
|
Shortest sitting day
|
09 hrs 28 mins
(18 August)
|
05 hrs 05 mins
(23 March)
|
Hours of sitting
|
41 hrs 14 mins
|
359 hrs 20 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 25 mins
11 hrs 42 mins
02 hrs 20 mins
04 hrs 25 mins
02 hrs 05 mins
00 hrs 06 mins
00 hrs 55 mins
04 hrs 36 mins
|
150 hrs 03 mins
99 hrs 07 mins
15 hrs 32 mins
37 hrs 22 mins
20 hrs 43 mins
05 hrs 44 mins
12 hrs 46 mins
33 hrs 35 mins
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Questions placed on notice
|
2*
|
1061**
|
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)
|
141
4 sitting days
|
1170
35 sitting days
|
Average daily number of questions without notice
|
35.3
|
33.4
|
Notices of motion given |
31
|
354
|
Petitions presented
|
2
|
11
|
Signatories to petitions
|
1 104
|
50 637
|
Divisions
|
12
|
168
|
* Questions placed on notice from 14 August to 20 August 2015, inclusive
** Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2014 to 20 August 2015, inclusive
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