Number of sitting days

3

18

Average length of a sitting day

8 hrs 26 mins

9 hrs 49 mins

Longest sitting day

10 hrs 21 mins
(10 May)

12 hrs 37 mins
(15 March)

Shortest sitting day

5 hrs
(8 May)

5 hrs
(8 May)

Hours of sitting

25 hrs 18 mins

176 hrs 44 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

20 hrs 18 mins
7 hrs 49 mins
2 hrs 21 mins
2 hrs 04 mins
0 hrs 48 mins
0 hrs 01 min
6 hrs 03 mins
1 hrs 18 min

Questions placed on notice

64^

367*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

54

2 sitting days

449

16 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

27.0

28.1

Petitions presented

7

14

Signatories to petitions

6 424

7 970

Divisions

13

101

Legislation

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
0

2
10

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

9
0

62
0

Passed in the Senate

5

52

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

1

3

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

1

5

Bills referred to committees

1

31