Corrections

Corrections

This site publishes figures drawn from parliamentary records. When one of them is wrong, the useful thing is to fix it quickly and leave a visible record that it was fixed.

How to report one

Write to corrections@toohardbasket.org.au with the row or figure you think is wrong and, if you have it, the source that shows it. You do not need to be certain — a question is enough, and we would rather check ten things that turn out to be right than publish one that is wrong.

What happens then

A correction is made within 24 hours of being confirmed, and listed below with the date, what changed, and the record that settled it. If you reported it and would like to be named, say so and you will be; otherwise the entry says nothing about who raised it.

Underneath the list there is a second record that is harder to edit and easier to check: every change to the data and to these pages is a commit in the public repository, with a timestamp and an explanation. The list below is a plain-English index of the corrections in that history — not a substitute for it.

A figure moving is not the same as a correction. Both registers rebuild from their source documents, and the count changes when a government response is tabled or a presiding officer publishes a new schedule. Those movements are the register working, and they are not listed here. What is listed here is us having been wrong.

The log

No corrections have been made since this site was published on 1 September 2026. That is a claim, not a boast, and it is checkable: the repository history shows every change made since then and why.

Errors found before publication

Several were, and they are in the repository history rather than in the list above, because nothing published to this site carried them. The largest is worth naming anyway, because it shows what this log is for: the Senate register was originally built by treating every report on the President's schedule as though it were still awaiting a response. His schedule is not a list of outstanding responses — it is a status list, with a column recording which reports have been answered. Reading that column properly removed about 150 reports that had in fact been answered. The error was found and fixed before the register was published.