How Barry O'Sullivan voted compared to someone who agrees that the federal government should allow companies to mine coal seam (CSG), tight and shale gas

Most important divisions relevant to this policy

These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for unconventional gas mining” which Barry O'Sullivan could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Barry O'Sullivan on this policy.

Division Barry O'Sullivan Supporters vote
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Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for unconventional gas mining” which Barry O'Sullivan could have attended.

Division Barry O'Sullivan Supporters vote

12th Feb 2019 – Senate Motions - Great Australian Bight - End oil and gas drilling

absent No

29th Nov 2018, 12:39 PM – Senate Motions - Coal Seam Gas Mining - Condemn lifting WA fracking moratorium

absent No

18th Oct 2018, 12:32 PM – Senate Motions - Underground Coal Gasification - Ban

No No

15th Nov 2017, 3:59 PM – Senate Motions - Coal Seam Gas Mining: Liverpool Plains - Moratorium

No No

22nd Feb 2016, 4:14 PM – Senate Motions - Coal Seam Gas - Narrabri coal seam gas project

No No

24th Nov 2015, 3:56 PM – Senate Motions - Coal Seam Gas - Landholders' right to say "no"

absent No

15th Oct 2015, 12:38 PM – Senate Motions - Coal Seam Gas - Ombudsman and audit

absent No

26th Mar 2015, 12:44 PM – Senate Motions — Coal Seam Gas

absent No

19th Mar 2015, 11:28 AM – Senate Motions — Ban donations to political parties from mining and coal seam gas (CSG) companies

No No

5th Mar 2015 – Senate Motions — Coal Seam Gas

absent No

3rd Mar 2015 – Senate Motions — Liverpool Plains

absent No

9th Jul 2014, 3:51 PM – Senate Motions - Coal Seam Gas - Right to say no

No No

15th May 2014, 12:14 PM – Senate Motions - Coal Seam Gas - Bentley blockade

absent No

19th Mar 2014, 4:01 PM – Senate Motions - Coal Seam Gas - Stop further approvals

No No

6th Mar 2014, 11:40 AM – Senate Landholders' Right to Refuse (Gas and Coal) Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea

No No

13th Feb 2014, 12:23 PM – Senate Motions - Coal Seam Gas - Landholders' right to refuse

absent No

How "voted almost always for" 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 0
MP absent 50% 25 0
Less important votes MP voted with policy 100% 5 7
MP voted against policy 0% 5 0
MP absent 50% 1 9

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) = 39.5 / 44 = 90%.

And then this average agreement score