Monday 14 March 2016

The 'feral' Senate: how often do the crossbenchers actually vote against the government?

The 'feral' Senate: how often do the crossbenchers actually vote against the government?

The government has introduced legislation that aims to reduce the ‘gaming’ of preferences to elect independent and micro-party senators, after the 2013 election resulted in a Senate with eight such senators, famously branded as ‘feral’ by the former prime minister Tony Abbott.
But how often do the crossbenchers actually vote against the government? Using voting data collated by They Vote For You, this interactive graphic shows the average voting agreement score for all formal senate votes since July 2014

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