Number of sitting days

4

28

Average length of a sitting day

10 hrs 42 mins

09 hrs 54 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 41 mins
(23 June)

 13 hrs 00 mins
(25 March)

Shortest sitting day

09 hrs 10 mins
(25 June)

05 hrs 05 mins
(23 March)

Hours of sitting

42 hrs 49 mins

 277 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

 23 hrs 35 mins
            08 hrs 45 mins
00 hrs 00 mins

04 hrs 15 mins
02 hrs 03 mins
00 hrs 26 mins
00 hrs 30 mins
03 hrs 15 mins

116 hrs 31 mins
                        76 hrs 00 mins
            10 hrs 52 mins

 28 hrs 37 mins
16 hrs 35 mins
03 hrs 48 mins
            11 hrs 02 mins
            24 hrs 47 mins

Questions placed on notice

3*

964**

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

141

4 sitting days

903

27 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

35.3

33.4

39

288

Petitions presented

1

8

Signatories to petitions

18052

43237

Divisions

35

147

* Questions placed on notice from 19 June to 25 June 2015, inclusive

** Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2014 to 19 June 2015, inclusive

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

1
4

3
13

Received from the House of Representatives - government bills

14

99

 0

 0

Passed in the Senate

35

114

Bills negatived

1

4

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

0

20

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

6

59