New South Wales Legislative Assembly

If anything, his steam man seemed to mock those men least capable of action.

Newspapers reported that Frankenstein's face was carved to strongly suggest a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.

Articles didn't specify exactly who, which meant you'd have to go along to see for yourself.

Happily, Mr. Hornburg was putting his steam man on public display the very next day, Saturday the 25th of September, 1880.

If they don't do so, their vote is considered informal and is not counted.

Under optional preferential voting, or OPV, most prominently used to elect the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, voters don't have to number any other boxes.

If they don't clearly indicate their preferred candidate, then the vote can't be counted.

But as long as there is a single clear one, their vote counts.

How did that make you feel? You know, it was truly lovely to receive the recognition and I'm really grateful.

However, it wasn't actually until I received a letter from our local member, Justin Clancy, who enclosed a copy of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly's Hansard, that I thought to myself, wow, this is actually a really, really big thing.

And, you know, I had a fuller appreciation of the significance of this acknowledgement.

And seeing it formally recorded in Parliament was, yeah, really humbling and I felt deeply honoured.