Number of sitting days
|
4
|
16
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Average length of a sitting day
|
09 hrs 12 mins
|
10 hrs 02 mins
|
Longest sitting day
|
13 hrs 00 mins
(25 March)
|
13 hrs 00 mins
(25 March)
|
Shortest sitting day
|
05 hrs 05 mins
(23 March)
|
05 hrs 05 mins
(23 March)
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Hours of sitting
|
36 hrs 48 mins
|
160 hrs 33 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
|
18 hrs 08 mins
06 hrs 08 mins
00 hrs 02 mins
03 hrs 15 mins
01 hrs 02 mins
00 hrs 21 mins
06 hrs 49 mins
01 hrs 05 mins
|
64 hrs 27 mins
44 hrs 38 mins
06 hrs 13 mins
15 hrs 54 mins
10 hrs 28 mins
01 hrs 51 mins
08 hrs 33 mins
14 hrs 42 mins
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Questions placed on notice
|
84*
|
521**
|
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)
|
90
3 sitting days
|
483
15 sitting days
|
Average daily number of questions without notice
|
30.0
|
32.2
|
Notices of motion given |
45
|
179
|
Petitions presented
|
4
|
5
|
Signatories to petitions
|
16106
|
17559
|
Divisions
|
29
|
76
|
* Questions placed on notice from 20 March to 26 March 2015, inclusive
** Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2014 to 26 March 2015, inclusive
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