GovGauge.au

About GovGauge

GovGauge is an independent, non-partisan transparency platform dedicated to making Australian parliamentary voting records accessible, searchable, and understandable.

Our Mission

Democracy works best when citizens can see how power is exercised. We aggregate public data from the Australian Parliament House and trusted public-interest platforms to provide a single, searchable view of how your elected representatives vote.

Parliamentary votes, bills, FOI requests, and MP profiles should be easy to find and understand — not buried in disparate government portals or behind paywalls.

What We Track

Parliamentary Divisions

Every division (vote) in the House of Representatives and Senate, with full Aye/No breakdowns

MPs & Senators

All current members of Parliament with party affiliations and voting records

Bills & Legislation

Bills introduced in the current Parliament, their status, and which divisions they triggered

FOI Requests

Freedom of Information requests to Commonwealth agencies, tracked via the OAIC disclosure log

Policy Positions

Aggregate MP voting scores across named policy areas — like climate, housing, and health

Party Discipline

Rebellion analysis: how often MPs vote against their own party's majority position

Data Sources

All data is sourced from official Australian Government sources and trusted public-interest platforms. See the full Data Sources page for details on each source, update frequency, and scraper status.

Australian Parliament House (APH)

Bills, divisions, Hansard, member records, and the divisions.aph.gov.au API

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OAIC Disclosure Logs

Freedom of Information request outcomes from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

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How It Works

Automated Scrapers

Server-side scrapers run on configurable schedules, fetching data directly from official APH APIs and public platforms. No API keys required.

Structured Storage

Data is normalised and stored in a relational database, linking MPs to their votes, votes to bills, and bills to policy areas.

Public Access

All data is freely accessible. No account required to browse divisions, MP profiles, bills, or FOI requests.

How Policy Scores Work

Each MP's policy position score is calculated from their voting record on divisions tagged to a policy issue. A positive score indicates support; a negative score indicates opposition. The magnitude reflects how consistently and recently they have voted in that direction.

Scores are not based on stated positions, media appearances, or party membership — only on actual votes cast in parliament.

Rebellion Rate

An MP's rebellion rate measures how often they vote against the majority position of their own party. A higher rebellion rate indicates greater independence from the party line. This metric requires vote-detail data to be populated for each division.

Limitations & Caveats

Vote counts and attendance rates are derived from APH division records. Absences due to illness, ministerial travel, or paired votes are not distinguished from unexplained absences.

Policy position scores reflect voting behaviour only — they do not capture speeches, committee work, private member's bills, or other forms of parliamentary activity.

Historical data coverage varies by parliament. Full division records are available from the 44th Parliament (2013) onwards; earlier records may be incomplete.

FOI data is sourced from agency disclosure logs and may not reflect all requests made to all agencies.

Data is updated on automated daily and weekly schedules. There may be a lag of up to 48 hours between a parliamentary event and its appearance on GovGauge.

Disclaimer

GovGauge is an independent platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Australian Government. While we strive for accuracy, data may contain errors or be out of date. Always verify important information against official government sources. This platform is provided for informational purposes only.

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