Talk:List of Australian Greens parliamentarians

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Name of this article[edit]

I suggest moving this article to List of Australian Greens politicians by length of term. This would make the title more consistent with other list type articles. MPs usually only refers to Members of the Australian House of Representatives and to members of only some State Parliaments. Others are referred to as MHAs, MLAs and MLCs. -- 202.161.25.161 10:21, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

length of term of serving politicians[edit]

Inserting the lngth of the term of serving parliamentarians is problematic because the time period quickly becomes outdated unless it is updated monthly. I suggest removing these for sitting members. -- 202.161.25.161 10:21, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unwarranted Deletions[edit]

Can I ask why one of the contributors of 30-10-06 decided to delete my added list of Greens M.P's which was comprehensive to the present time? I don't think that this was a fair action. M.Rodowicz 31 October 2006

That was me Mark. I did it because the list was intended to be a list of the "longest-serving" MPs, not all MPs. But if you feel strongly about it, it can be reverted. Ben Raue (Talk) 22:39, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- How is that more useful than a list of MPs by time served? (It's not as if, like, say, the Liberals, there are so many MPs that it would make the page useless). Rebecca 02:34, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - I thought that too (might as well list them all - it is quite a short page), then I looked at the page title. However I suppose, theoretically, they all belong to the longest-serving Green MPs list. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 02:37, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting edits for Victoria M.P's[edit]

Although the Victorian election was held in November, new parliament was not sworn in until 19th Dec '06. Whether you count from month to month or day to day, you still don't get more than 2 months. --Mrodowicz 06:17, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Edits for Victorian M.P's[edit]

I've realised that in the interests of consistency, Victorian MP's terms could be counted from the date of election. I've discovered that both the NSW & Vic parliaments officially count the beginning of the term of MP's from election day. Whilst I do not agree with this method, and sometimes it can take several months after election day before candidates are officially sworn in, this is the way terms of office are recorded (at least in NSW & Victoria), and in several cases, dates of actual assumption of office do not appear to be available. Mrodowicz 11:26, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kerry Nettle[edit]

I would be inclined to indicate K. Nettle's term on the basis of time served to date. We know that her term expires in July '08, and though she is likely to serve her term through to then, we are not prophets and cannot predict that future circumstances will be such to ensure that she will serve until July. Mrodowicz (talk) 12:01, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Out of order[edit]

"The listing is arranged according to the length of term served, from longest to shortest." At the moment the listing is out of order according to this measure. If there's no dissent I'm going to fix it up.Sumthingweird (talk) 10:54, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How is it out of order? Rebecca (talk) 10:56, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Everything above Jim Scott is out of order. For example, Christine Milne has served a shorter term than Scott. Even if you consider that the federal parliamentarians are considered separately, Peg Putt is also in the wrong place.Sumthingweird (talk) 14:09, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Er, no. Milne has served 9 years in state parliament and 3 years in federal parliament. Which is 12 years. Which is more than 11 years. The same applies for the other ones. Rebecca (talk) 10:36, 9 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My mistake ;-) Sumthingweird (talk) 15:12, 9 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rework of list[edit]

Pinging @Mrodowicz: @Catiline52: @Chrismaltby: @Canley: as maintainers of and contributors to this list.

I'd like to propose reworking this list into a sortable table, both for ease of information and to also lessen the amount of maintenance required (particularly with the order of the current length of term list). I believe we could consolidate the List by Parliament and List by length of term sections as the sortable function would render the two separate lists unnecessary. I would suggest the list be ordered chronologically by default.

I'm thinking something along these lines:

	Chamber	Electorate	Term began	Term ended	Length of term
Bob Brown (1944– )	Tasmanian House of Assembly	Denison	4 January 1983	12 February 1993	10 years, 39 days	26 years, 199 days
Bob Brown (1944– )	Australian Senate	Tasmania	1 July 1996	15 June 2012	16 years, 160 days	26 years, 199 days
Gerry Bates (1950– )	Tasmanian House of Assembly	Franklin	8 February 1986	4 May 1995	9 years, 85 days

From my perspective the main defect in my table (but which I presume may be fixable?) is that I'm not sure how to deal with sortability for multiple terms (it'll sort the individual terms but not the sum). I'm also not particularly sure about the photos and how they work (we may need a separate column so that they don't interfere with the sorting of the names), but it seems a good opportunity to take advantage of the Greens' generous licensing of portraits. I'm definitely eager to hear others' thoughts. Frickeg (talk) 01:44, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Might as well do this, the page looks like it hasn't been changed for a decade, it needs an overhaul. Since this new version allows sorting by both length of term and chamber, might as well merge the two sections ('List by Parliament', 'List by length of term') into a main 'List of Australian Greens parliamentarians' heading. The timelines can also probably be removed, there's too many MPs to make it readable. The leader timeline should probably be split off into a dedicated Leaders of the Australian Greens page like other parties. Catiline52 (talk) 02:02, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @Catiline52:. I have changed the two lists to a single table as discussed. I think I have the table working pretty well but happy to hear more feedback on changes. I think the timelines are fine - I actually had to remove the House one because there weren't enough MPs and there are nowhere near enough federal MPs for it to be a problem at this stage. Don't know that we need a Greens leaders page just yet. Frickeg (talk) 07:34, 31 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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