Number of sitting days

4

21

Average length of a sitting day

10 hrs 43 mins

9 hrs 56 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 21 mins
(18 June)

12 hrs 14 mins
(20 March)

Shortest sitting day

10 hrs
(19 June)

6 hrs 17 mins
(21 March)

Hours of sitting

42 hrs 52 mins

208 hrs 35 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

17 hrs 20 mins
13 hrs 23 mins
2 hrs 20 mins
4 hrs 12 mins
2 hrs 02 mins
0 hrs 0 mins
1 hrs 55 mins
4 hrs 0 mins

Questions placed on notice

28^

367*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

117

4 sitting days

552

21 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

29.3

26.3

Petitions presented

0

8

Signatories to petitions

0

25 206

Divisions

34

106

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
3

3
18

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

63
0

125
0

Passed in the Senate

25

80

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

1

6

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

0

26

Bills referred to committees

13

66