Number of sitting days

4

44

Average length of a sitting day

09 hrs 47 mins

09 hrs 59 mins

Longest sitting day

10 hrs 18 mins
(16 September)

 13 hrs 00 mins
(25 March)

Shortest sitting day

08 hrs 55 mins
(17 September)

05 hrs 05 mins
(23 March)

Hours of sitting

39 hrs 08 mins

 439 hrs 14 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

 16 hrs 42 mins
10 hrs 54 mins
02 hrs 20 mins
04 hrs 08 mins
02 hrs 59 mins
00 hrs 00 mins
00 hrs 04 mins
04 hrs 21 mins

184 hrs 05 mins
122 hrs 30 mins
20 hrs 19 mins
45 hrs 46 mins
25 hrs 44 mins
05 hrs 52 mins
13 hrs 23 mins
41 hrs 54 mins

Questions placed on notice

2*

1087**

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

129

4 sitting days

1419

43 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

32.3

33.0

29

409

Petitions presented

8

20

Signatories to petitions

2 944

53 691

Divisions

11

188

* Questions placed on notice from 11 September to 17 September 2015, inclusive

** Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2014 to 17 September 2015, inclusive

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
2

4
19

Received from the House of Representatives - government bills

7

124

 0

 0

Passed in the Senate

5

139

Bills negatived

0

9

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

2

25

Bills referred to committees (13 bills referred re time critical motion)

8

80