  Wow, so many points to respond to! Regarding the tables: the non-consistency of these across Australian election pages has been a bugbear of mine for a while, so before it's changed I really think a centralised discussion at WT:AUP 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 - it's 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, Labour's support was tenuous and somewhat on a member-by-member 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 2010 pendulum, for example, would be an adequate way of depicting the way the parliament sits, but since neither the Greens nor the three pro-Labor independents entered the election with any sort of electoral agreement with the ALP their inclusion is problematic.   