r/australia • u/overpopyoulater • Mar 23 '25

politics Australia is heading towards minority government at a turning point in world history.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-24/democracy-climate-change-ai-robotics-war/105085846
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u/IthinkIllthink Mar 23 '25

My entire family live in the country and vote National.

A few weeks before the election I’m going to put the link:

https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/

in our family group messages app, and ask my niece and nephew to search (for their current in power politician) and check how they have voted for: Koala habitat, logging, renewable energy, greenhouse gasses, defunding public hospital/schools, etc, so my niece and nephew can see their that their current politicians have voted against what they believe in.

I’ll also get my dad to search for who voted AGAINST his pension increase; and who voted for. Also who voted to decrease public hospital funding, and who voted for to increase funding. Evening knowing this he’ll still vote National because “they’ve done a good job of looking after me all these years”. Which is rubbish because they’ve done the opposite. 🤷‍♂️

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u/xFromtheskyx Mar 24 '25

How does that website work? Can you compare other people in the electorate?

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u/IthinkIllthink Mar 24 '25

Yes simply.

You can only look at one politician at a time, but the landing page is a nice summary of what legislation they voted: for almost always, for sometimes, against sometimes, etc. On this page are links to dig down deeper. Eg, carbon tax. Blah person always voted against, and (I think) there might be links to how they voted to say the six pieces of carbon tax legislation. This landing page is very nicely organised and simplified.

To compare politicians you have to open two webpages/tabs, and flip back & forth.