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!
After a few days the prototype is starting to take shape
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