How Sarah Hanson-Young voted compared to someone who agrees that the federal government should make tertiary and vocational education fee-free for all Australians

Most important divisions relevant to this policy

These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for fee-free university and TAFE education” which Sarah Hanson-Young could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Sarah Hanson-Young on this policy.

Division Sarah Hanson-Young Supporters vote
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Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for fee-free university and TAFE education” which Sarah Hanson-Young could have attended.

Division Sarah Hanson-Young Supporters vote

25th Nov 2024, 1:16 PM – Senate Universities Accord (Student Support and Other Measures) Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Make university and TAFE free

Yes Yes

19th Oct 2023, 1:34 PM – Senate Higher Education Support Amendment (Response to the Australian Universities Accord Interim Report) Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Make university and TAFE fee-free

Yes Yes

9th Aug 2023, 11:33 AM – Senate Trade Support Loans Amendment Bill 2023 and Student Loans (Overseas Debtors Repayment Levy) Amendment Bill 2023 - Second Reading - More support and no students fees for sector

Yes Yes

7th Aug 2023, 12:44 PM – Senate Jobs and Skills Australia Amendment Bill 2023 - Second Reading - TAFE funding and work conditions

Yes Yes

19th Jun 2023, 6:05 PM – Senate Education Legislation Amendment (Startup Year and Other Measures) Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Tertiary education & student debt

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 5
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) = 25.0 / 25 = 100%.

And then this average agreement score