Number of sitting days

3

45

Average length of a sitting day

9 hrs 22 mins

10 hrs 09 mins

Longest sitting day

10 hrs 18 mins
(11 October)

17 hrs 23 mins
(28 June)

Shortest sitting day

7 hrs 54 mins
(9 October)

5 hrs
(8 May)

Hours of sitting

28 hrs 07 mins

457 hrs 02 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

8 hrs 13 mins
10 hrs 50 mins
4 hrs 19 mins
3 hrs 18 mins
2 hrs 03 mins
0 hrs 37 mins
0 hrs 26 mins
2 hrs 40 mins

Questions placed on notice

158^

899*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

87

3 sitting days

1150

41 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

29.0

28.0

Petitions presented

2

33

Signatories to petitions

197

69 199

Divisions

16

262

Legislation

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
1

2
19

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

14
0

172
1

Passed in the Senate

5

149

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

0

7

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

5

15

Bills referred to committees

8

79