However,it is important – and can give insight into their priorities both in parliament and out in the community.
It is maybe little surprise then that health,crime and housing were key. But let’s dig in it a little more.
Health took out the top spot among MPs utterances in parliament,as recorded by the official Hansard transcript,with 5866 mentions.Nathan Perri
To gauge what MPs found important enough to mention while at their green leather seats,I loaded the transcripts of every regular 2023 sitting day into a word cloud generator.
At the end of each year,parliament also releases a bunch of statistics covering the work of MPs over the past 12 months.
It’s basic data (no Spotify Wrapped-style graphics here) but can also explain things like of laws being passed.
So,what did 2023 show us?
Which topics did MPs mention most?
Health took out the top spot among MPs utterances in parliament,as recorded by the official Hansard transcript,with 5866 mentions.
Police came in second at 4691,services ranked third at 3455 abovecrime in fourth with 2877,housing (2663),safety (2613),youth (2420),justice (2125) andinfrastructure (2063) up high.
(I’ve made some decisions here to ignore a bunch of regular common words – thinka,the,it – plus parliamentary words such asspeaker, memberorbill.)
Lauren Handscombe,daughter of Wayne Irving who tragically lost his life while ramped in an ambulance at Ipswich Hospital,says the system is broken.
How did parties and MPs address these?
The Labor government used much of last year to focus on the work being done in its new.
Efforts to deal with and growing demand have also played a part,along with pressure on the federal government to lift funding and move long-term aged and disability patients out of hospitals.
On crime,Labor U-turned one previously dismissed youth justice policies and twice overrode while citing “community expectations” to justify tougher measures for overall declining young offender numbers,among.
Labor is of preparing a second stage of rental reforms and a 20-year “housing plan” to address the crunch on both supply and demand for homes affecting residents.
The LNP opposition has continued its run of “health crisis town halls”,while on the “priorities” it hints there will be more detail about before the.
This is largely true in the crime space,too,and its broader strategy of painting the third-term Palaszczuk (now Miles) government as one of.
LNP Leader David Crisafulli last month suggested () mandatory minimum sentences for youth offenders were. A review of first homeowner scheme thresholds was also announced as part of the LNP’s.
Greens MPs were characteristically active in the housing space,introducing a number of bills to force discussion on issues such as and.
Meanwhile,the Katter’s Australian Party for what it calls “relocation sentencing” for young offenders,and One Nation floated the idea of turning a school camp on North Keppel Island into a low-security site from cycles of crime.
How many minutes did they clock up?
Parliament sat for 40 days across 13 weeks in 2023,for an average of about 9.5 hours.
A total of 45 bills were introduced,with all but six coming from the government. Of those half-dozen non-government bills,the LNP since the 2020 election.
MPs asked 720 questions of ministers during parliament’s almost 40 hours of question time,and a further 1618 in writing.
Almost 240,000 people signed a total of 156 petitions presented to the parliament – mostly online.
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