Number of sitting days

4

53

Average length of a sitting day

11 hrs 24 mins

10 hrs 16 mins

Longest sitting day

12 hrs 12 mins
(20 November)

17 hrs 23 mins
(28 June)

Shortest sitting day

9 hrs 48 mins
(21 November)

5 hrs
(8 May)

Hours of sitting

45 hrs 36 mins

544 hrs 17 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

22 hrs 18 mins
10 hrs 52 mins
2 hrs 20 mins
4 hrs 10 mins
3 hrs 04 mins
1 hrs 06 mins
0 hrs 04 mins
4 hrs 02 mins

Questions placed on notice

66^

1087*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

114

4 sitting days

1381

49 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

28.5

28.2

Petitions presented

1

37

Signatories to petitions

10

79 600

Divisions

29

307

Legislation

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
2

2
22

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

4
0

190
1

Passed in the Senate

21

180

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

1

8

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

21

45

Bills referred to committees

3

88