Number of sitting days

4

27

Average length of a sitting day

12 hrs 34 mins

10 hrs 13 mins

Longest sitting day

17 hrs 23 mins
(28 June)

17 hrs 23 mins
(28 June)

Shortest sitting day

10 hrs 30 mins
(26 June)

5 hrs
(8 May)

Hours of sitting

50 hrs 14 mins

276 hrs 03 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

35 hrs 19 mins
5 hrs 18 mins
nil
3 hrs 06 mins
2 hrs 03 mins
0 hrs 02 mins
0 hrs 33 mins
4 hrs 03 mins

Questions placed on notice

56^

471*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

81

3 sitting days

644

23 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

27.0

28.0

Petitions presented

5

23

Signatories to petitions

406

66 892

Divisions

31

162

Legislation

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
2

2
12

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

10
1

125
1

Passed in the Senate

24

112

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

1

4

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

2

7

Bills referred to committees

3

55