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Patrick Dodson voted consistently against privatising certain government services

How Patrick Dodson voted compared to someone who agrees that the federal government should give the private sector control over running and managing some of its services (such as public welfare, aged care and visa services) by either outsourcing or privatisation

Most important divisions relevant to this policy

These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for privatising certain government services” which Patrick Dodson could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Patrick Dodson on this policy.

Division Patrick Dodson Supporters vote
no votes listed

Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for privatising certain government services” which Patrick Dodson could have attended.

Division Patrick Dodson Supporters vote

12th Nov 2020, 1:40 PM – Senate Services Australia Governance Amendment Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Staffing caps and privatisation

Yes No

26th Feb 2020, 4:30 PM – Senate Motions - Aged Care - Privatisation

Yes No

26th Feb 2020, 4:22 PM – Senate Motions - Aged Care - ACAT privatisation

Yes No

25th Feb 2020, 4:56 PM – Senate Motions - Aged Care - Privatising Aged Care Assessment Teams (ACAT)

Yes No

24th Feb 2020, 4:05 PM – Senate Motions - Public Transport - Privatisation

Yes No

6th Feb 2020, 12:21 PM – Senate Motions - Aged-Care Assessments - Privatisation + consult with states

absent No

1st Aug 2019, 12:18 PM – Senate Committees - Visa Processing - Do not privatise

absent No

18th Oct 2017, 2:02 PM – Senate Motions - Department of Human Services - Staffing

Yes No

13th Oct 2016, 1:57 PM – Senate National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016 and another - in Committee - Protection of private data

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 7
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 / 37 = 3%.

And then this average agreement score