Number of sitting days

4

34 

Average length of a sitting day

12 hrs 27 mins

10 hrs 16 mins

Longest sitting day

18 hrs 50 mins
(17 and 18 July)

 18 hrs 50 mins
(17 and 18 July)

Shortest sitting day

9 hrs 58 mins
(16 July)

8 hrs 23 mins
(18 March) 

Hours of sitting

49 hrs 47 mins

 347 hrs 13 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

28 hrs 43 mins
6 hrs 69 mins
0 hrs 0 mins


04 hrs 17 mins
01 hrs 01 mins
04 hrs 49 mins
01 hrs 28 mins
02 hrs 30 mins

 118 hrs 54 mins
105 hrs 15 mins
16 hrs 12 mins


35 hrs 59 mins
21 hrs 34 mins
11 hrs 37 mins
14 hrs 53 mins
41 hrs 01 mins

Questions placed on notice

12 *

730** 

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

132

4 sitting days

 1053

 34 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

33.0

31.0 

 35

367 

Petitions presented

2

16

Signatories to petitions

334

43 490 

Divisions

51

155 

* Questions placed on notice from 14 July to 18 July 2014 inclusive

** Questions placed on notice from 13 December 2013 to 18 July 2014 inclusive

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

2
22

Received from the House of Representatives

 132

Passed in the Senate

 98

Bills negatived

23

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

23

Bills referred to committees

 81