Number of sitting days

4

15

Average length of a sitting day

11 hrs 05 mins

10 hrs 06 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 40 mins
(19 March)

12 hrs 37 mins
(15 March)

Shortest sitting day

10 hrs 28 mins
(21 March)

5 hrs 14 mins
(16 March)

Hours of sitting

44 hrs 21 mins

151 hrs 26 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 38 mins
15 hrs 31 mins
3 hrs 48 mins
4 hrs 20 mins
nil
1 hr 03 mins
0 hrs 48 mins
2 hrs 01 min

Questions placed on notice

57^

303*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

110

4 sitting days

395

14 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

27.5

28.2

Petitions presented

2

7

Signatories to petitions

683

1 546

Divisions

42

88

Legislation

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

2
3

2
10

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

8
0

53
0

Passed in the Senate

30

47

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

1

2

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

3

4

Bills referred to committees

21

30