It looked the same to me … what difference are you seeing, in terms of how votes are counted and redistributed?
Well superficially, how you enter your vote on the HoR paper and the Senate paper (especially if voting above the line) may look similar.
You might number your HoR candidates 1-8, you might number your preferred Senate parties/groups 1-8.
But HoR you have a ballot for a single member electorate.
In the Senate you have a ballot for multimember State.
So the allocation method is, by necessity different.
It might take 6 iterations to generate the two-party preferred vote from your 8 candidates in your HoR electorate and hence that preference count and outcome can usually be determined on election night.
But it might take well over 100 iterations to determine who wins the last Senate quota and that isn’t done for a couple of weeks after polling. That’s not an issue as winning a Senate majority doesn’t determine who is the incoming government and new Senators don’t take their seats for (usually) months anyway.
In the HoR a party could win over 30% primary vote in every electorate and not get a single member elected.
Get 30% of the primary vote in the Senate and you’ll get about 30% of the representation.
Conversely if you get less than 0.5% of the HoR primary vote you don’t get your deposit back, but with the Senate if you are very, very, very lucky with your preference deals you might get 18% of the representation.
The devil is in the detail.