Number of sitting days

4

49

Average length of a sitting day

10 hrs 25 mins

10 hrs 11 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 26 mins
(29 October)

17 hrs 23 mins
(28 June)

Shortest sitting day

9 hrs 50 mins
(31 October)

5 hrs
(8 May)

Hours of sitting

41 hrs 39 mins

498 hrs 41 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

14 hrs 03 mins
13 hrs 50 mins
2 hrs 20 mins
4 hrs 14 mins
3 hrs 05 mins
0 hrs 58 mins
0 hrs 32 mins
4 hrs 57 mins

Questions placed on notice

122^

1021*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

117

4 sitting days

1021

45 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

29.3

28.2

Petitions presented

3

36

Signatories to petitions

10 391

79 590

Divisions

16

278

Legislation

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
1

2
20

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

14
0

186
1

Passed in the Senate

10

159

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

0

7

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

9

24

Bills referred to committees

6

85