Wow so many points to respond to Regarding the tables the nonconsistency of these across Australian election pages has been a bugbear of mine for a while so before its changed I really think a centralised discussion at WTAUP is warranted There are currently three or four different versions going around and I think it would really be much better to standardise the lot  its all much the same electoral system after all I personally quite like the one the UK uses tweaked for our purposes obviously I agree that the current headings are confusing I do however wholeheartedly approve of the notes that Slac proposes to add this election was a special case and that needs to be noted  I tend to agree that describing the Protectionists and Labour as in any kind of coalition is stretching the truth a little As I understand it Labours support was tenuous and somewhat on a memberbymember basis anyway The better place for this would seem to be a note stating the basis on which the Protectionists were able to govern The reason the pendulums are like that with Protectionist and Labour lumped together is because apparently three columns posed problems with some of the larger resolutions if there was a way to fix this I would absolutely support having three columns In fact if that can be wrangled I would argue for all the pendulums to have three columns were there are crossbenchers because linking them up with either of the main parties is far from ideal The current  pendulum for example would be an adequate way of depicting the way the parliament sits but since neither the Greens nor the three proLabor independents entered the election with any sort of electoral agreement with the ALP their inclusion is problematic