Number of sitting days

4

36

Average length of a sitting day

10 hrs 19 mins

09 hrs 59 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 14 mins
(17 August)

 13 hrs 00 mins
(25 March)

Shortest sitting day

09 hrs 28 mins
(18 August)

05 hrs 05 mins
(23 March)

Hours of sitting

41 hrs 14 mins

 359 hrs 20 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 25 mins
                        11 hrs 42 mins
02 hrs 20 mins
04 hrs 25 mins
02 hrs 05 mins
00 hrs 06 mins
00 hrs 55 mins
04 hrs 36 mins

150 hrs 03 mins
                                                99 hrs 07 mins
            15 hrs 32 mins
             37 hrs 22 mins
            20 hrs 43 mins
05 hrs 44 mins
            12 hrs 46 mins
                       33 hrs 35 mins

Questions placed on notice

2*

1061**

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

141

4 sitting days

1170

35 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

35.3

33.4

31

354

Petitions presented

2

11

Signatories to petitions

1 104

50 637

Divisions

12

168

* Questions placed on notice from 14 August to 20 August 2015, inclusive

** Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2014 to 20 August 2015, inclusive

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
            1

4
17

Received from the House of Representatives - government bills

10

113

 0

 0

Passed in the Senate

10

128

Bills negatived

3

8

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

0

20

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

9

69