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11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Matthew Canavan voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Matthew Canavan
Liberal National Party Senator for Queensland since July 2014
Never rebels explain rebellions 73% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Live animal export
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted almost always for
- A declared area offence
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Senate electoral reform
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted generally for
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
Voted almost always against
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing air pollution
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Self-governance of the territories
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
- Vehicle efficiency standards
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising pepper spray
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Pill testing
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Matthew Canavan has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2014. explain rebellions
Free votes
Matthew Canavan has taken part in 7 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2014. explain “Free Votes”
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Matthew Canavan voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Introduce threshold
Matthew Canavan voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Matthew Canavan voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Matthew Canavan voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Matthew Canavan voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Matthew Canavan voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Matters of Urgency — Aukus
Matthew Canavan was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Matthew Canavan was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Matthew Canavan voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
Compare Matthew Canavan with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Matthew Canavan (100% agreement) to those who never voted the same (0% agreement).
We only compare those votes where both people attended. This may reveal relationships between people that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Bill Heffernan | Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | David Johnston | Former Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Greg Mirabella | Former Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |
| 99.9% | John Williams | Former National Party Senator for NSW |
| 99.9% | Christopher Back | Former Liberal Party Senator for WA |