Changelog

• 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.