Number of sitting days

4

24

Average length of a sitting day

09 hrs 46 mins

09 hrs 46 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 29 mins
(15 June)

 13 hrs 00 mins
(25 March)

Shortest sitting day

08 hrs 02 mins
(16 June)

05 hrs 05 mins
(23 March) 

Hours of sitting

39 hrs 06 mins

 234 hrs 31 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

15 hrs 44 mins
12 hrs 17 mins
02 hrs 210mins

04 hrs 15 mins
02 hrs 02 mins
01 hrs 23 mins
00 hrs 55 mins
02 hrs 30 mins

92 hrs 56 mins
            67 hrs 15 mins
            10 hrs 52 mins

 24 hrs 22 mins
14 hrs 32 mins
03 hrs 22 mins
            10 hrs 32 mins
            21 hrs 32 mins

Questions placed on notice

59*

961**

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

141

4 sitting days

762

23 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

35.3

33.0

44

249

Petitions presented

0

7

Signatories to petitions

0

25185

Divisions

24

112

* Questions placed on notice from 15 May to 18 June 2015, inclusive

** Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2014 to 18 June 2015, inclusive

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0

0

2

            9

Received from the House of Representatives - government bills

39

 85

 0

 0

Passed in the Senate

24

79

Bills negatived

0

3

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

0

14

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

19

53