Australian parliament voting calculator: can you get laws through the House and Senate?

The government is now in a minority in both houses, meaning the Coalition and Labor must work with crossbenchers to achieve their goals

With the election of independent MP Kerryn Phelps and Julia Banks’s move to the crossbench, the Coalition government is now without a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

How will this new state of affairs affect voting on matters such as referring politicians to the high court over eligibility concerns, or the passing or blocking of legislation?

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