This Gadget shows data on recent divisions in Federal Parliament.

It is important to understand that not all decisions in Parliament are made by physical vote. Most decisions are made 'on the voices' which basically means they are just made on party lines.

If a number of politicians request a division, then the politicians physically vote by dividing themselves into two groups - one voting 'for' the other 'against'. The interesting thing from our point of view is that divisions allow for the recording of individual votes - so we can see who voted in which way, who was absent, etc - exactly the information we need in assessing how our own representatives do their job for us.

Data is dynamically drawn primarily from Open Australia / They Vote For You via their API and used, with thanks, under their Open Data Commons Open Database License.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

This is offered entirely 'as is' and should not be relied upon for any decisions of any sort.

This app pulls data from external sources. Sometimes that takes a moment or two.

Please be patient for just a moment while we drag in the votes.

Zali Stegall is an independent in the neighbouring electorate and so seems the most interesting point of comparison.

Her views and those of her electorate are not necessaily those of North Sydney but there is likely to be some cross-over given the electorate's proximity.

Judging voting is complicated. The information here is drawn directly from theyvoteforyou.org.au

They exdplain their methodology here.

Basically legisaltion often has multiple votes on its way through Parliament. As the They Vote For You site explains: "For an MP or Senator to be marked as "voted very strongly for" a particular policy, they need to have almost always voted in a way that supports the policy (they may have voted against it once or twice, but usually only in a less important vote) and they need to have been present for almost every vote (too many absences will count against them and may even push them into the "voted against" categories since in our Parliament, not voting ultimately has the same effect as voting against something)."