How David Coleman voted compared to someone who agrees that the federal government should take national action to increase housing affordability so that all Australians have the chance to buy their own home

Most important divisions relevant to this policy

These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for increasing housing affordability” which David Coleman could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of David Coleman on this policy.

Division David Coleman Supporters vote
no votes listed

Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for increasing housing affordability” which David Coleman could have attended.

Division David Coleman Supporters vote

28th Feb 2024, 5:34 PM – Representatives Help to Buy Bill 2023 and Help to Buy (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with the bills

No Yes

14th Sep 2023, 12:01 PM – Representatives Treasury Laws Amendment (Housing Measures No. 1) Bill 2023 - Consideration of Senate Message - Agree with Senate amendment

No Yes

14th Sep 2023, 11:49 AM – Representatives Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023 - Consideration of Senate Message - Agree with the Senate amendment

No Yes

16th Feb 2023, 9:05 AM – Representatives National Housing Supply and Affordability Council Bill 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Regional Australia and critical infrastructure

absent No

15th Feb 2023, 5:39 PM – Representatives Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea

No Yes

27th Nov 2019, 1:05 PM – Representatives Treasury Laws Amendment (Reducing Pressure on Housing Affordability Measures) Bill 2019 and another - Second Reading - Housing affordability

absent Yes

How "voted consistently 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 0
MP absent 50% 25 0
Less important votes MP voted with policy 100% 5 0
MP voted against policy 0% 5 4
MP absent 50% 1 2

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) = 1.0 / 22 = 5%.

And then this average agreement score