Number of sitting days

2

16

Average length of a sitting day

10 hrs 36 mins

11 hrs 35 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 20 mins
(18 April)

28 hrs 56 mins
(17 March)

Shortest sitting day

09 hrs 52 mins
(19 April)

08 hrs 34 mins
(1 March) 

Hours of sitting

21 hrs 12 mins

 185 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

09 hrs 08 mins
05 hrs 31 mins
00 hrs 00 mins

02 hrs 07 mins
01 hrs 01 mins
00 hrs 11 mins
00 hrs 17 mins
02 hrs 58 mins

77 hrs 22 mins
59 hrs 27 mins
09 hrs 26 mins

16 hrs 44 mins
11 hrs 22 mins
01 hrs 57 mins
02 hrs 02 mins
16 hrs 31 mins

Questions placed on notice

525*

758**

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

72

2 sitting days

587

16 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

36.0

36.7

137

271

Petitions presented

0

10

Signatories to petitions

0

114 778

Divisions

11

129

* Questions placed on notice from 18 March to 19 April 2016, inclusive

** Questions placed on notice from 4 December 2015 to 19 April 2016, inclusive

Note: these figures include unanswered questions resubmitted from the last session

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
                                                0

1
                                    5

Received from the House of Representatives - government bills

3

 59

 0

 0

Passed in the Senate

1

36

Bills negatived

2

2

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

0

12

Bills referred to committees

0

22