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Distinguish the speakers from the copy on unedited pages. #835

Closed erietta closed 10 years ago

erietta commented 10 years ago

Suggestion to more clearly distinguish speakers from their commentary on unedited pages. e.g. see https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/divisions/representatives/2014-10-02/1. On this page I had to do a double take as I read the last few paragraphs to understand that other's were speaking: I'm not sure what the best approach for this is. Bold text for names? Use of colon after names?

Craig Kelly

I rise to speak on the Automotive Transformation Scheme Amendment Bill 2014. I would like to note that I was not down to speak on this bill but I could not continue to sit by and listen to the complete gaggle of opposition speakers, one after the other, rabbit on about such nonsense and espouse such fictions, without joining the debate.

I will speak specifically to the bill. This bill is in response to the decisions of Holden and Toyota to cease manufacturing cars in Australia in 2016 and 2017. The Automotive Transformation Scheme is a legislative instrument which provides assistance to registered participants for the production of motor vehicles and engines for those who invest in eligible research and investment and allowable plant and equipment. Effectively, it is a government subsidy. What we will actually be doing is reducing the appropriation for the Automotive Transformation Scheme from $2.5 billion to $1.6 billion.

Rob Mitchell

It's a cut!

OR

Craig Kelly:

I rise to speak on the Automotive Transformation Scheme Amendment Bill 2014. I would like to note that I was not down to speak on this bill but I could not continue to sit by and listen to the complete gaggle of opposition speakers, one after the other, rabbit on about such nonsense and espouse such fictions, without joining the debate.

I will speak specifically to the bill. This bill is in response to the decisions of Holden and Toyota to cease manufacturing cars in Australia in 2016 and 2017. The Automotive Transformation Scheme is a legislative instrument which provides assistance to registered participants for the production of motor vehicles and engines for those who invest in eligible research and investment and allowable plant and equipment. Effectively, it is a government subsidy. What we will actually be doing is reducing the appropriation for the Automotive Transformation Scheme from $2.5 billion to $1.6 billion.

Rob Mitchell:

It's a cut!

Long debate text truncated.

equivalentideas commented 10 years ago

We had a pass at this a few weeks ago as #586 — see what you think of the discussion there. There are other issues about from potentially removing this text all together. It definitely is confusing.

henare commented 10 years ago

Bold text for names?

This is what it was when I first added the debate text.

However I really think we should just not use this text at all - let's just send people off to OA.org. So I'm closing in favour of #326.