How has social media changed political discourse? Let’s flip the question around and look at past political discussions as if they were being shared through Twitter. What changes?
Here you can explore interjections documented in Hansard , the official record of Australia’s parliamentary proceedings, between 1901 and 1980. The words, speakers, and dates are real. The Twitter handles, activity stats, and times are invented.
Over 900,000 interjections were extracted from the Hansard XML repository , which was harvested from the ParlInfo database published on the Parliament of Australian website.