‘Crossing the floor’ refers to a politician voting against their own party in parliament. According to research by the Parliamentary Library, 296 individual Australian parliamentarians crossed the floor between February 1950 and April 2019. The Coalition accounted for 90.2% of the individual MPs who crossed the floor compared to Labor’s 9.8%.

This disparity is due to a Labor Party approach known as ‘caucus solidarity’. This means they aim to present a united front to the parliament and voting public. All decisions are debated in the caucus behind closed doors, then all members are expected to vote in parliament for the position reached by the caucus, regardless of their individual position on the issue

In the future, a technology can assess, with 100% accuracy, whether an individual will commit a crime within a decade of the assessment. This assessment updates universally at the beginning of each decade, and includes the future charge but no specific details

For the purposes of this debate, and "adulthood-focused parent" aims to set their child up for successful adulthood. This may look like encouraging their child to work hard in academics and teaching structure and discipline, among other things. In comparison, a "childhood-focused parent" aims to "let children be children" by focusing on play time and personal enjoyment. 

For the purposes of this debate, the 'Future Interests Bureau' is a proposed independent governmental body. It is composed of experts and is designed to understand the interests of minors. It would have voting power in federal elections equal to the proportion of the public that are minors