What are the initial questions that come to mind when first presented with a "view" or information object?
Division
- What is this?
- When?
- Something in the senate or house of reps?
- Does this relate to an issue I care about?
- What happened?
- Was it successful?
- Anything else interesting? - rebels, many absent.
- How did the parties vote?
- How did my representative vote?
- How did all reps vote?
- Is this one of a series of divisions around a policy?
Person
- Who is this person?
- What is their name?
- Do they have a special role? (e.g. Minister/Front bench)
- What do they look like?
- What/where is their electorate?
- What kind of a place is that?
- What party are they from?
- What is interesting about this member?
- is their attendence unusual?
- do they ever rebel?
- What is their position on the issues I care about?
- Which other members are they similar to?
Policy
- What is the issue?
- Overall, how does the parliament vote on this policy?
- How does my representative vote on this issue?
- How does each party vote on this issue?
- Has this policy has any recent division/is this a current issue?
- How do all reps vote on this issue?
- What are the different party's policies on this issue?
- What individual divisions occurred on this policy?
- Which way did those divisions go?
- How did the parties vote?
- How did my rep vote?
- How did every MP vote?
- Where can I learn more about this issue?
- Who made this a policy and allocated divisions?