How Peter Whish-Wilson voted compared to someone who agrees that the federal government should support offshore petroleum mining by, for example, granting exploration and drilling licences

Most important divisions relevant to this policy

These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for offshore oil mining” which Peter Whish-Wilson could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Peter Whish-Wilson on this policy.

Division Peter Whish-Wilson Supporters vote
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Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for offshore oil mining” which Peter Whish-Wilson could have attended.

Division Peter Whish-Wilson Supporters vote

7th Dec 2020, 4:12 PM – Senate Motions - Energy - Oil and gas drilling

Yes No

27th Aug 2020, 12:35 PM – Senate Motions - Oil Exploration - Ban offshore oil and gas exploration

absent No

17th Jun 2020, 4:00 PM – Senate Motions - Oil Exploration - Protect Ningaloo Reef, Shark Bay, and the Exmouth Gulf

Yes No

26th Feb 2020, 4:06 PM – Senate Motions - Oil Exploration - Great Australian Bight as world heritage

Yes No

10th Feb 2020, 7:43 PM – Senate Motions - Oil Exploration - Cancel permit

Yes No

6th Feb 2020, 12:32 PM – Senate Motions - Oil Exploration - Great Australian Bight

Yes No

2nd Dec 2019, 4:05 PM – Senate Motions - Great Australian Bight - Protect from oil exploration

Yes No

13th Nov 2019, 4:53 PM – Senate Motions - Great Australian Bight - Foreign company

Yes No

16th Oct 2019, 4:40 PM – Senate Motions - Climate Change, Petroleum Industry - No new coal, oil or gas projects

Yes No

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

Yes No

25th Jun 2018, 4:11 PM – Senate Motions - Great Australian Bight - World Heritage Listing

Yes No

15th Oct 2015, 12:42 PM – Senate Motions - Oil Exploration - Release Environmental Plan

Yes No

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 11
MP absent 50% 1 1

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) = 0.5 / 56 = 1%.

And then this average agreement score