How Tony Sheldon voted compared to someone who agrees that the federal government should decrease the subsidisation of taxpayer money into fossil fuels

Most important divisions relevant to this policy

These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels” which Tony Sheldon could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Tony Sheldon on this policy.

Division Tony Sheldon Supporters vote

3rd Aug 2021, 5:51 PM – Senate Regulations and Determinations - Industry Research and Development - Disallow two instruments

absent Yes

Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels” which Tony Sheldon could have attended.

Division Tony Sheldon Supporters vote

14th Nov 2023, 12:36 PM – Senate Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Australia's Engagement in the Pacific) Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Fossil fuels

No Yes

30th Mar 2023, 1:21 PM – Senate Safeguard Mechanism (Crediting) Amendment Bill 2023 - in Committee - Fossil fuel programs

Yes Yes

15th Dec 2022, 4:10 PM – Senate Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Fossil fuel subsidies

absent Yes

26th Sep 2022, 11:23 AM – Senate Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Benefit to Australia) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Cth royality, subsidies, and costs

No Yes

16th Jun 2021, 3:53 PM – Senate Motions - Climate Change - G7 resolutions

absent Yes

13th May 2021, 12:30 PM – Senate Motions - Climate Change - Stop funding fossil fuels

No Yes

2nd Dec 2019, 4:17 PM – Senate Motions - Mining - Withdraw support for Adani

absent Yes

How "voted generally 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 1
Less important votes MP voted with policy 100% 5 1
MP voted against policy 0% 5 3
MP absent 50% 1 3

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) = 19.0 / 48 = 40%.

And then this average agreement score