How Bob Brown voted compared to someone who agrees that the federal government should implement the international conventions that relate to seeking refuge and protection from torture. These include the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees and the non-refoulement provisions of the UN Convention Against Torture and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Most important divisions relevant to this policy

These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for implementing refugee and protection conventions” which Bob Brown could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Bob Brown on this policy.

Division Bob Brown Supporters vote
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Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for implementing refugee and protection conventions” which Bob Brown could have attended.

Division Bob Brown Supporters vote

11th Oct 2011 – Senate Motions - Asylum Seekers - International refugee obligations

Yes Yes

17th Jun 2010, 9:47 AM – Senate Motions - World Refugee Day - Concerns about policies

Yes Yes

12th May 2010, 3:52 PM – Senate Motions - Suspension of processing Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum claims

Yes Yes

3rd Feb 2010, 3:49 PM – Senate Motions - Tamil Asylum Seekers - End standoff

Yes Yes

27th Oct 2009, 3:50 PM – Senate Motions - Asylum Seekers - Language and law

Yes Yes

26th Feb 2007, 5:03 PM – Senate Matters of Urgency - Asylum Seekers - Non-refoulment

Yes Yes

20th Jun 2006, 4:05 PM – Senate Motions - World Refugee Day - Refugee Convention

Yes Yes

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 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 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) = 35.0 / 35 = 100%.

And then this average agreement score