Number of sitting days

4

56

Average length of a sitting day

10 hrs 22 mins

10 hrs 01 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 27 mins
(23 November)

 13 hrs 00 mins
(25 March)

Shortest sitting day

09 hrs 42 mins
(24 November)

05 hrs 05 mins
(23 March)

Hours of sitting

41 hrs 26 mins

 560 hrs 51 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 40 mins
11 hrs 30 mins
02 hrs 21 mins
04 hrs 14 mins
03 hrs 03 mins
01 hrs 16 mins
00 hrs 05 mins
04 hrs 38 mins

236 hrs 21 mins
156 hrs 39 mins
            27 hrs 21 mins
                        58 hrs 26 mins
            32 hrs 56 mins
07 hrs 26 mins
14 hrs 05 mins
            54 hrs 58 mins

Questions placed on notice

1158**

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

147

4 sitting days

1839

55 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

36.8

33.4

44

531

Petitions presented

2

25

Signatories to petitions

2 914

56 913

Divisions

26

255

* Questions placed on notice from 13 November to 26 November 2015, inclusive

** Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2014 to 26 November 2015, inclusive

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

1
                                    1

8
            23

Received from the House of Representatives - government bills

8

160

 0

 0

Passed in the Senate

11

173

Bills negatived or discharged

1

11

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

1

26

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

2

96