How Mike Freelander voted compared to someone who agrees that there should be a referendum on the question of whether the Constitution should be amended to include a requirement for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to federal parliament, such as that envisaged by the Uluru Statement from the Heart

Most important divisions relevant to this policy

These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for a referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice” which Mike Freelander could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Mike Freelander on this policy.

Division Mike Freelander Supporters vote

31st May 2023, 9:41 AM – Representatives Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Third Reading - Pass the bill

Yes Yes

31st May 2023, 9:33 AM – Representatives Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Agree with the bill

Yes Yes

31st May 2023, 9:05 AM – Representatives Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea

Yes Yes

Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for a referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice” which Mike Freelander could have attended.

Division Mike Freelander Supporters vote
no votes listed

How "voted consistently 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 3
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 0
MP absent 50% 1 0

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) = 75.0 / 75 = 100%.

And then this average agreement score