edited
24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Matthew Canavan voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Matthew Canavan
Liberal National Party Senator for Queensland since July 2014
Never rebels explain rebellions 71% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- 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
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- 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
- Political interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing personal income tax
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Uranium export
Voted strongly 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 funding for road infrastructure
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Senate electoral reform
Voted moderately for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted moderately against
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Pill testing
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Public transport
- Reducing air pollution
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Transgender rights
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- 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 political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Legalising euthanasia
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The right to protest
- Universal access to abortion services
Has never voted on
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- 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
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Tobacco plain packaging
Please note that our voting records start in 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 2 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2014. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Committees — Economics Legislation Committee; Report
Matthew Canavan voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Tasmania: Takayna Trail Ultramarathon
Matthew Canavan voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Nbn Co
Matthew Canavan voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2013 (current) Parliament. This is measured from 0% agreement (never voted the same) to 100% (always voted the same). Only votes that both Senators attended are counted. This may reveal relationships between Senators that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | State | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98% | Jo Lindgren | Queensland | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Ben Small | WA | Liberal Party |
| 96% | Hollie Hughes | NSW | Liberal Party |
| 96% | Andrew McLachlan | SA | Liberal Party |
| 96% | Perin Davey | NSW | National Party |