After a few days the prototype is starting to take shape

Screenshot of prototype (22 November 2007)

All I’ve done so far is take the website code from the UK website theyworkforyou.com as is and write a very crude parser for the Australian Hansard which takes that data and rejigs into an XML format that can be imported into the website database.There are a huge number of problems and I have committed a large number of unspeakable hacky sins to get here but it’s progress!

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