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13th Aug 2021
Motions - Covid-19 - Unity in COVID response
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Matthew Canavan voted No
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
Zed Seselja and Matthew Canavan have voted the same way 99.7% of the time
Zed Seselja
Former Liberal Party Senator for ACT September 2013 – May 2022
Matthew Canavan
Liberal National Party Senator for Queensland since July 2014
Between July 2014 and May 2022 Zed Seselja and Matthew Canavan have voted in the same division 1429 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 1425 times. They have only voted differently 4 times.
How do their votes on policies compare?
Policies are groups of votes related to an issue. We only show policies where we have enough information on both people.
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Refugee family reunification
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
- Universal access to abortion services
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 1425 times. They have only voted differently 4 times.
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edited 2nd Jul 2021
Motions - Murray-Darling Basin - Support delivery of Plan
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Matthew Canavan voted No
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 21st May 2021
Motions - Reconciliation Week - This year's theme
Zed Seselja voted No
Matthew Canavan voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal National Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 67% attendance
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edited 21st May 2021
Matters of Urgency - Covid-19: Quarantine - Help Australians in India
Zed Seselja voted No
Matthew Canavan voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal National Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 66% attendance