How Mary Fisher voted compared to someone who agrees that the federal government should introduce the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, which is a cap-and-trade system of emissions trading introduced by the Rudd Labor Government

Most important divisions relevant to this policy

These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme” which Mary Fisher could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Mary Fisher on this policy.

Division Mary Fisher Supporters vote

30th Nov 2009, 11:52 AM – Senate Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] and related bills - Third Reading - Read a third time

No Yes

25th Nov 2009, 12:42 PM – Senate Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] and related bills - Second Reading - Read a second time

absent Yes

13th Aug 2009, 11:13 AM – Senate Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 and related bills - Second Reading - Read a second time

No Yes

Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme” which Mary Fisher could have attended.

Division Mary Fisher Supporters vote

22nd Feb 2010, 5:56 PM – Senate Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2010 and related bills - First Reading - Proceed without formalities

No Yes

30th Nov 2009, 9:53 PM – Senate Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] and related bills - In Committee - Free permits for coal fired electricity generators

No Yes

30th Nov 2009, 8:05 PM – Senate Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] and related bills - In Committee - Limit overseas permits

No Yes

30th Nov 2009, 6:27 PM – Senate Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] and related bills - In Committee - Free allocation of permits

No Yes

30th Nov 2009, 12:23 PM – Senate Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] and related bills - In Committee - Insert mandatory requirement to consider

No Yes

30th Nov 2009, 12:00 PM – Senate Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) Bill 2009 [No. 2] and Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Amendment (Household Assistance) Bill 2009 [No. 2] - Third Reading - Read a third time

No Yes

25th Nov 2009, 4:13 PM – Senate Motions - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Legislation - Defer question of third reading

absent No

25th Nov 2009, 12:35 PM – Senate Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] and related bills - Second Reading - Refer to committee

absent No

25th Nov 2009, 12:24 PM – Senate Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] and related bills - Second Reading - Defer consideration

absent No

25th Nov 2009, 12:14 PM – Senate Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] and related bills - Second Reading - Commit to reducing emissions

No Yes

25th Nov 2009, 11:01 AM – Senate Business - Rearrangement - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation

absent Yes

17th Nov 2009, 1:15 PM – Senate Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] - First Reading - Proceed without formalities

No Yes

13th Aug 2009, 11:06 AM – Senate Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 and related acts - Second Reading - Commit to reducing emissions

No Yes

4th Dec 2008, 10:04 AM – Senate Motions - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - Delay introduction

Yes No

How "voted almost always against" is worked out

They Vote For You gives each vote a score based on whether the MP voted in agreement with the policy or not. These scores are then averaged with a weighting across all votes that the MP could have voted on relevant to the policy. The overall average score is then converted to a simple english language phrase based on the range of values it's within.

When an MP votes in agreement with a policy the vote is scored as 100%. When they vote against the policy it is scored as 0% and when they are absent it is scored half way between the two at 50%. The half way point effectively says "we don't know whether they are for or against this policy".

The overall agreement score for the policy is worked out by a weighted average of the scores for each vote. The weighting has been chosen so that the most important votes have a weighting 5 times that of the less important votes. Also, absent votes on less important votes are weighted 5 times less again to not penalise MPs for not attending the less important votes. Pressure of other work means MPs or Senators are not always available to vote – it does not always mean they've abstained.

Type of vote Agreement score (s) Weight (w) No of votes (n)
Most important votes MP voted with policy 100% 25 0
MP voted against policy 0% 25 2
MP absent 50% 25 1
Less important votes MP voted with policy 100% 5 0
MP voted against policy 0% 5 10
MP absent 50% 1 4

The final agreement score is a weighted average (weighted arithmetic mean) of the scores of the individual votes.

Average agreement score = sum(n×w×s) / sum(n×w) = 14.5 / 129 = 11%.

And then this average agreement score