Number of sitting days

4

42

Average length of a sitting day

10 hrs 14 mins

10 hrs 13 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 29 mins
(17 September)

17 hrs 23 mins
(28 June)

Shortest sitting day

9 hrs 27 mins
(20 September)

5 hrs
(8 May)

Hours of sitting

40 hrs 57 mins

428 hrs 55 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

21 hrs 48 mins
8 hrs 33 mins
nil
4 hrs 16 mins
3 hrs 01 mins
0 hrs 13 mins
0 hrs 04 mins
3 hrs 02 mins

Questions placed on notice

58^

741*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

116

4 sitting days

1063

38 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

29.0

28.0

Petitions presented

3

31

Signatories to petitions

1810

69 002

Divisions

19

246

Legislation

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
1

2
18

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

5
0

158
1

Passed in the Senate

3

144

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

1

7

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

1

10

Bills referred to committees

10

72