How date with Barnaby Joyce’s nephew led to climate-voting tool

Lizzie Hedding once went on a date with Barnaby Joyce’s niece. When he later went to tell a friend about it, they had no idea who Joyce was.

Smart, caring but not politically engaged, this friend is the target audience for Hedding’s Build a Ballot, an online voting tool she runs through the climate organization Project Planet.

Build a Ballot has a simple premise: it asks you to answer a series of questions about policy areas such as housing, health, education and climate, then matches your answers to candidates and parties in your electorate in upcoming elections.