Changelog

• HouseDocs search is faster, especially on phones.
• Simpler filters: choose a document type and year up front. Results now show newest first, and the search box stays in view as you scroll.

• HouseDocs search: results return quickly again; the first search after new documents are added no longer stalls.

• HouseDocs search is rebuilt for faster scanning: each result leads with what the item is, and you can filter by the kind of business — divisions, questions, bills, motions, statements, committees, documents.
• A division result shows its outcome at a glance — agreed or negatived.

• Minutes: items from the backup source now stay in time order even when the source publishes an earlier item after later ones.

• Minutes: motions from the backup source now show their numbered clauses in the same layout as the official minutes, rather than as a plain list.
• Who has spoken: contributors are recognised when the minutes are coming from the backup source.

• Question Time: clicking a question in the minutes jumps to it in the captions even when the minutes are coming from the backup source.
• Minutes: the end of a sitting day is recognised correctly when the minutes are coming from the backup source.

• Question Time: question markers are placed on the captions even when the minutes are coming from the backup source.

• Captions: live text now appears word by word consistently, instead of every other update arriving as a whole block at once.

• Minutes: entries within an item now appear in the order the record prints them. The seconder of a motion is no longer displaced below the list of later speakers.

• Question Time: questions are recognised and Question Time starts correctly even when the minutes are coming from the backup source.

• Minutes: during an APH outage, the backup source now keeps an item up to date as new speakers, details and divisions are added.

• Minutes: if the APH source goes offline, the minutes now continue from a backup source by adding to what is already shown rather than replacing it, and the page tells you before it switches.
• Question Time: the question number no longer overlaps its highlight, and a duplicated time has been removed.

• Minutes: if the APH source is unavailable, the live minutes now continue from a backup source.
• Votes and Proceedings: removed a data quality notice that did not apply to the documents shown.

• Minutes: a Question Time question number no longer spills outside the margin.
• Who has spoken: contributions are numbered so the order is clear at a glance, most recent first.

• Captions: words are no longer dropped every few hours, when the broadcast starts a new recording.
• Minutes: each Question Time question now stands out as its own block.
• HouseDocs: you can now search the Votes and Proceedings, Notice Papers and Daily Programs, and browse them by date.
• Who has spoken: the list of members fits far more on screen, so a long debate is quick to scan.

• Captions: the words spoken as the page opens are no longer missing until you refresh.

• Captions: words no longer go missing when the broadcast’s captions arrive late.

• Who has spoken: two members who share a surname are no longer shown as one.

• Minutes: scroll up to read something and the page stays where you left it. Scrolling back to the bottom follows the sitting again.
• Minutes: speakers no longer come and go while you are reading.
• Who has spoken: a member no longer appears twice for the same speech.

• Daily Program: the morning’s business is back on the panel, in both chambers.
• Notice Paper: committee names and sitting times read as the record prints them, and the Federation Chamber’s meeting time is shown.

• Votes and Proceedings: numbered clauses sit at the same indent throughout the record.
• Votes and Proceedings: jumping to an entry from the contents no longer loses your place.

• Votes and Proceedings: the record is wider on a phone, and numbered clauses line up the way the printed record sets them.
• Votes and Proceedings: no more blank gap in the middle of a numbered list.

• Votes and Proceedings: the record now uses the full width of the screen.
• Votes and Proceedings: an entry’s number now sits beside it on a phone.
• Calendar: the month grid no longer scrolls behind the year picker.

• Votes and Proceedings: the day’s record is now set as a document, with a masthead naming the Parliament, the number and the sitting day, and a link you can copy for any item.
• Votes and Proceedings: a contents list that follows you as you scroll, filters as you type, marks every division, and switches between the House and the Federation Chamber.
• Votes and Proceedings: divisions fold to their result and open when you ask, when you follow a link to one, or when a search finds a name inside.
• Votes and Proceedings: printing gives a clean A4 document with running heads and page numbers.

• Minutes: motions and division results are shown in full on a laptop or a wide panel. On a phone they stay behind “Show more” and “Show detailed result”.
• Minutes: what you have open stays open, and your place is kept, when you switch panels or chambers or leave the tab and come back.
• Minutes: item headings and times can now be selected and copied.
• Minutes: item headings read in full. Words either side of the bill name were being dropped.

• Daily Program: bill links now cover the whole bill name. Names with brackets were linked from part-way through, which could open a different bill.
• Who has spoken: says so promptly when ParlInfo is slow to answer, instead of the page failing.

• Notice Paper: sub-paragraphs now indent properly. (i), (ii), (iii) sat level with the (a), (b), (c) they belong under.
• Notice Paper: clause lists inside quoted motions and standing orders are laid out as lists instead of running together as plain paragraphs.
• Minutes: division voter lists now fit a phone screen. The last column of names was cut off at the edge of the box.
• Who has spoken: consideration in detail speeches are no longer counted as second reading contributions.
• Minutes: item times now show seconds, matching the entries listed beneath them.

• Votes & Proceedings: division voter lists are back in the order the record prints them, alphabetically. They were coming out jumbled.
• Sitting calendar: the current year now opens at this month instead of January, so today is on screen without scrolling.

• Who has spoken now lists today’s minutes and ParlInfo separately, latest first.
• Procedural motions no longer count as speaking to the bill.

• Votes & Proceedings: every entry in the contents list can now be selected. The last few, and about half the rest, highlighted the entry above instead.

• Bill items now have a “Who has spoken” button listing the members who have contributed to the second reading debate.
• Votes & Proceedings: restored days that were stored incomplete, where the Federation Chamber stopped partway through. Days are now re-checked against the source, so missing pages and later corrections are picked up on their own.
• Votes & Proceedings: divisions again show the line naming who was in the chair, and the question stays in the text instead of being moved into the tally box.

• Sitting calendar: removed the year arrows. Pick the year you want from the list.
• Coming back from a sitting day now returns you to that day’s year, rather than to the top of the calendar.
• Search: results are now ordered sensibly across the three document types. Searching a term the House debated yesterday was putting months-old entries first.
• Search: the filters take one row instead of four, and opening a result full-page now opens a new tab, so you keep your search.

• Sitting day pages: the ParlView link now opens ParlView’s own page to search by date. The direct links were all opening the most recent day’s video, whatever day you had chosen.
• Sitting calendar: the parliament and year controls now sit together on one row instead of spreading across the page, and the links in the status line look like links.
• Votes & Proceedings: the contents list now follows you down the page, instead of appearing to stop partway through the Federation Chamber.

• Sitting calendar: choosing a parliament now works. On an election year, where the sitting days belong to two parliaments, the calendar says so and shows the other parliament’s days in grey.
• Sitting calendar: tidied the controls on a phone, where the year arrows sat on a line of their own and the parliament menu looked unfinished.

• Sitting calendar: scheduled sitting days can now be opened, instead of only past ones.
• The menu is now the same on every page. About and Changelog were missing the HouseDocs entry.
• Search shows the first 25 matches with a “Show more” button, rather than putting every match on the page at once, and says what it can search before you type.
• The header now behaves the same across pages: it stays put as you scroll, and always says where you are.

• Sitting calendar: choose a parliament and year at the top of the page instead of scrolling and expanding. One year is shown at a time.
• Every sitting day now opens a page of its own listing the records available for it, rather than going straight out to ParlInfo. Older days only offer the records that exist for them.
• Captions: the “captions unavailable” notice no longer appears when the House rises and the broadcast simply ends.

• Captions: fixed a fault that could drop a few words when a speaker repeated a phrase, such as “we back Australian trade, we back Australian producers”.
• Captions now say so when they stop arriving from the APH broadcast, instead of appearing to be up to date.
• Votes & Proceedings: restored divisions where too few members voted for a full list to be recorded. The line naming who voted and how the question was resolved had been dropped from the page.
• Notice Paper: closed the thin gap between a pinned section heading and the sub-section heading below it, where text could be seen sliding past as you scrolled.

• The sitting calendar now covers every sitting day back to 1901, grouped by Parliament, and the header stays in place as you scroll it.
• Days without documents here open their Votes and Proceedings on ParlInfo.

• Removed the counts from the Notice Paper section headings.
• The Notice Paper opens just the first section on arrival, rather than its first sub-section as well.

• Numbered clauses in the Votes & Proceedings now indent by level, so sub-clauses sit under the clause they belong to and wrapped lines line up with the text.
• Closed the wide empty gap between the contents list and the text.

• Votes & Proceedings headings now read in normal type instead of block capitals, and the page no longer slides out from under the header when you scroll.
• Restored the ministry list and other tables that had gone missing from the Votes & Proceedings.

• Divisions in the Votes & Proceedings now show the Ayes, Noes and margin together, name each side’s tellers, and say what the vote decided. Searching the page finds members in the division lists.
• Notice Paper: sections and sub-sections say how many notices they hold, the first one opens on arrival, and House and Federation Chamber business are banded apart.
• The Hansard link on a sitting day now opens that day’s House Hansard instead of the Federation Chamber.

• Captions search now finds and counts every match (matches at the start of a new speaker’s turn were being missed), and no longer jumps you back to the current match while new captions arrive.
• Votes & Proceedings: House and Federation Chamber business is now clearly separated in the contents, with a menu you can use on mobile and jump between the two chambers.
• Votes & Proceedings: removed stray reference codes and a repeated title header that was cluttering the text, including the first Federation Chamber entry.

• Notice Paper: a bill being reported back from the Federation Chamber is no longer mislabelled as Federation Chamber business, and the Clerk’s sign-off under Questions in Writing is no longer shown.
• Daily Program: the “meets at” line at the top now stands out and sits clear of the heading above it.

• Captions: the live view no longer stops following along when the layout shifts, such as when a Question Time banner appears.
• Daily Program: the placeholder line is removed once the actual Matter of Public Importance is posted.

• Question Time: a newly-asked question is marked within a few seconds, instead of waiting for the next check.
• Daily Program: the Matter of Public Importance shows in place; “Ministerial statements” reads as a heading; and the “Presentation of documents” item is tidier.

• The live header shows today’s date in the same style as the rest of the site, shortened on small screens.
• Daily Program: business listed under a time (e.g. Members’ statements at 1.30 pm) no longer goes missing, and sub-headings are tidier.
• Question Time: a question split across several caption blocks is no longer missing a block, and the pinned question text can now be selected and copied.

• Browser tab titles now name the page, like “Sitting calendar · HouseLive”.
• Captions: the “Jump to latest” button grows and pulses after a minute scrolled back, so it’s easy to spot.

• Daily Program: the Matter of Public Importance now shows once it’s posted at midday.
• The header now shows where you are on the site: Calendar, About, a past sitting day, and so on.

• Browse past sitting days: a new calendar for the 48th Parliament opens each day’s Votes & Proceedings, Daily Program and Notice Paper, formatted for easy reading (Hansard and video link out to the APH site).
• A consistent menu and header across the site, refreshed mobile layouts, and a home-screen icon when you install HouseLive on a phone.
• Notice Paper: Federation Chamber notices now numbered correctly, committee names cased consistently, and tidier dash spacing; sub-section headings stay pinned while you scroll.

• Notice Paper: tidier layout with aligned item numbering, consistent dashes, no empty expanding headings, and Collapse all now closes sub-sections.
• Daily Program: removed stray text that shouldn’t appear.

• Daily Program and Notice Paper display tidy-ups.

• New Daily Program and Notice Paper views, alongside Minutes and Captions.

• The first Question Time question is placed faster.
• Tidier Question Time layout in the minutes — clearer spacing, less indentation.
• Mobile: timestamps no longer squeeze the minutes text.

• Improvements to automatic Question Time question marking.

• Question Time questions are now marked automatically as they’re asked, so the captions show which question is being put without waiting for a manual marker.

• Fixed a false “live updates delayed” notice that could show after the House had adjourned for the day.

• Search now clearly highlights the result you’re on (orange) as you step through matches, in both the minutes and captions.
• Fixed an occasional duplicated word in the live captions that cleared on refresh.
• Moved the “Updated” time to the bottom of the minutes list, by the draft note.

• Cleaner formatting for motions and numbered lists in the minutes — properly nested sub-points, clearer spacing between points, and fixed alignment of stacked amendments.
• Long items now open to a short preview with a “Show more” button, so a lengthy motion no longer fills the screen.

• Fixed occasional dropped words in the live captions, and the pinned Question Time question sometimes showing only part of its text.
• Tidier pinned question on mobile, now collapsible; admin marking keeps new questions in view and adds a jump-to-latest button on the captions panel.

• Fixed House captions stopping when the broadcast rolled to a new video segment partway through a long sitting.

• Captions panel no longer tints the refined question range — the question badge already does that job. The pinned question text at the top still shows just the refined words.
• Admin: the Refine button on placed caption blocks is now more visible.

• Fixed admin QT marker page sometimes blocking new marker placement after clearing a question or restarting the replay.

• Admins can now refine each Question Time question’s exact start and end words; the refined range is highlighted in the captions.

• Tidier minutes layout: tighter cards, cleaner timestamps, and the question-jump affordance only appears on questions that have actually been placed.
• Captions: speaker-change dividers are less frequent, so brief AI-captioner colour flips no longer fragment the panel.

• Reduced per-viewer background traffic — chamber status badges and the "live updates delayed" notice are now pushed from the server when something actually changes, instead of every viewer’s browser polling for it. The page should feel a little more responsive when state genuinely flips, with less network and server work in the steady state.
• Captions also use the same push-not-poll approach for the QT structure (question markers), so a busy Question Time no longer multiplies into a wave of background requests from every open viewer.

• The minutes panel now shows when the minutes were last updated, and displays a clear "live updates delayed" notice if the APH source stops responding for more than a few minutes during a sitting — so a stalled feed is visible rather than silently showing stale content.

• Minutes readability: timestamps are a little larger and darker, and members' names now display at full text strength instead of greyed out.
• Captions readability: the speaker-change divider and its timestamp are darker and easier to see, and the spacing between speakers has been tightened to reduce wasted space.
• More reliable captions: brief dropouts from a stalled connection to the broadcast now recover within seconds instead of occasionally leaving a gap of a minute or two.

• The captions full-screen button now lets you choose between filling the whole screen or just the browser tab.
• Fixed chamber status badges occasionally showing a stale state (e.g. "Scheduled" instead of "Live") after switching between the House and Federation tabs in the morning — both badges now stay accurate without needing a manual refresh.
• Admin Operational health page now also shows CPU usage, event-loop lag, and memory as a share of the container limit.

• Caption text-size buttons (A−/A+) now work before captions start, so the size can be set during start-of-day setup. The "Waiting for the House to begin sitting" message previews the chosen size, and it carries over once captions begin.

• Reduced server load per viewer — the site can comfortably handle roughly twice as many people watching live at once.
• Cleaner formatting in the minutes panel: continuation lines under a numbered clause (e.g. multiple bills under "Bills referred to Federation Chamber") now hang-indent properly instead of running flush left, and the nested-clause indent has been tightened.
• Questions in the minutes panel are now clearly marked as clickable — a small arrow appears on hover. Clicking a question now also opens the captions panel automatically if it isn't already showing, then jumps to that question.

• New admin Operational health page (under Admin → Operational health). Shows live memory usage, scheduler state, today's scrape activity, and active viewer connections — auto-refreshing every 10 seconds. Lets the team see how the running container is going without needing direct access to the server.

• Live minutes and Question Time markers now appear within a fraction of a second of being scraped, instead of waiting up to 5–10 seconds for the next refresh.

• Reduced the background data each viewer's browser pulls from the server, letting the site handle many more concurrent viewers during sitting days.

• Fixed a server memory issue that contributed to load-driven outages under heavy traffic.
• The bottom line of the captions panel no longer looks washed out where the scrub slider overlays it — the slider now sits in its own strip below the captions instead of fading them.

• Admin QT marker page now loads the full day's captions on open — so if the browser closes mid-Question-Time, reloading picks up where things left off rather than starting from scratch.

• Question Time auto-ends as soon as the next numbered minute item arrives after Questions (e.g. Auditor-General's report) — no more manual End QT in admin for the usual case. Intra-QT additions like points of order are correctly ignored. Admin can still force End or Reopen if the auto signal is wrong.
• Federation Chamber captions no longer show House Question-Time markers. QT only applies to the House, so the Fed panel now ignores QT structure entirely.

• Fixed live minutes not picking up new speakers and other within-item updates automatically — the page now reflects each scrape as it lands, instead of needing a manual refresh.
• Hardened the live updates so a transient startup hiccup can no longer pause them for the day.

• Captions full-screen button now uses true browser fullscreen, hiding tabs and address bar for maximum reading space. Press Esc to exit.
• Browser tab title now shows the environment on non-prod deploys (e.g. "HouseLive - Test"), so it's clear at a glance which environment you're looking at.

• Pinned question banner now tracks the most recently marked question, with a clear label.
• End QT hides the pinned banner; markers and click-to-jump still work, and the banner reappears on Reopen.
• Clicking a question in the minutes lands cleanly below the pinned banner instead of behind it.
• Restored the hanging indent on numbered question lines in the minutes panel.

• The current question now pins to the top of the captions panel as you scroll.
• Click a question in the minutes panel to jump to it in the captions.
• Interrupted questions show a small "cont." label on the resumed caption.
• Admin can now mark Question Time questions by clicking caption blocks, with manual entry available if minutes scraping is unavailable.

• Captions text-size preference now persists across panel switches and reloads.
• More reliable live-stream detection when APH's endpoints disagree.

• Captions resume automatically after a stream drop — no page refresh required.
• Fixed a mobile layout glitch where the header could get pushed off-screen.

• Hot-fix for a caption-parser issue that could wedge the server when ParlView captions lacked speaker tags.

• Question Time markers no longer disappear as new questions are added.
• House status badge no longer flips to "Adjourned" mid-day when DOCUMENTS items appear.
• Minutes panel jumps to the latest item when switching back from Captions.
• Trimmed header chrome on small screens to reclaim vertical space.

• Question Time markers now survive process restarts.
• Nightly process restart for long-term stability.

• "Updating…" footer indicator no longer flashes every poll cycle.
• Federation Chamber now shows "Not sitting" on days it isn't meeting.
• "Statement by indulgence" items show just the heading, not the full subject line.

• Minutes update faster (every 5 s) while the House is sitting, 60 s when idle.
• Expanded minute items no longer collapse when new items arrive.

• Question Time recognition is now driven by the live minutes rather than a fixed clock window.

Initial corporate release of HouseLive.

• Live draft minutes for House of Representatives and Federation Chamber.
• Live closed captions from the APH ParlView broadcast.
• Side-by-side Minutes and Captions panels with per-panel search and fullscreen captions mode.