I stopped paying attention when there was magically a Labor majority (I say "magically" because there were some "interesting" stories coming there too, sure it's all "above board") but from a very vague memory I think the Greens and teals did do better than they normally do.

Barn cats are like that apparently XD Are you feeding it? And even if you are feeding it some of them will be touchy forever and some of them do get to a stage where you're allowed to pat them a little bit. Good luck :D