Business — Rearrangement
Matthew Canavan voted No
David Van voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 83% attendance
Matthew Canavan and David Van have voted the same way 97% of the time
Matthew Canavan
Liberal National Party Senator for Queensland since July 2014
David Van
Independent Senator for Victoria since June 2023
Since July 2019 Matthew Canavan and David Van have voted in the same division 981 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 955 times. They have only voted differently 26 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.
Always voted differently on
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 Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building community climate change resilience
- Capping gas prices
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- 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
- 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
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Offshore oil mining
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising certain government services
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- 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
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 955 times. They have only voted differently 26 times.
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Business — Rearrangement
Matthew Canavan voted No
David Van voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Matthew Canavan voted No
David Van voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Matthew Canavan voted No
David Van voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Matthew Canavan voted No
David Van voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 22nd Sep 2024
Paid Parental Leave Amendment (Adding Superannuation for a More Secure Retirement) Bill 2024 - in Committee - Additional entitlements
Matthew Canavan voted Yes
David Van voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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edited 17th Nov 2024
Digital Id Bill 2023, Digital Id (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2023 - Third Reading - Pass the bills
Matthew Canavan voted No
David Van voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 17th Nov 2024
Digital Id Bill 2023, Digital Id (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2023 - Committee of the Whole - Opposition amendments
Matthew Canavan voted Yes
David Van voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Bills — Digital Id Bill 2023, Digital Id (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2023
Matthew Canavan voted No
David Van voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Bills — Digital Id Bill 2023, Digital Id (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2023
Matthew Canavan voted No
David Van voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Bills — Digital Id Bill 2023, Digital Id (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2023
Matthew Canavan voted No
David Van voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Business — Consideration of Legislation
Matthew Canavan voted Yes
David Van voted No
Not passed
No rebellions 88% attendance
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Business — Consideration of Legislation
Matthew Canavan voted Yes
David Van voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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Bills — Crimes Legislation Amendment (Combatting Foreign Bribery) Bill 2023; Second Reading
Matthew Canavan voted No
David Van voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 73% attendance
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edited 14th Jun 2024
Business - Consideration of Legislation - Disability Services and Inclusion Bill 2023 and five others
Matthew Canavan voted No
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 14th Jun 2024
Business - Consideration of Legislation - Move another motion immediately
Matthew Canavan voted No
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 14th Jun 2024
Business - Consideration of Legislation - Put the question
Matthew Canavan voted No
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 14th Jun 2024
Business - Consideration of Legislation - Suspend the usual procedural rules
Matthew Canavan voted No
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 14th Jun 2024
Business - Consideration of Legislation - Put the question
Matthew Canavan voted No
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 67% attendance
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edited 15th Feb 2024
Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Australia's Engagement in the Pacific) Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Matthew Canavan voted No
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 76% attendance
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edited 13th Aug 2021
Motions - Covid-19 - Unity in COVID response
Matthew Canavan voted No
David Van voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
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edited 9th Jul 2021
Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Environmental outcomes
Matthew Canavan voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal National Party
David Van voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 9th Jul 2021
Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Nationals' amendments
Matthew Canavan voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal National Party
David Van voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 2nd Jul 2021
Motions - Murray-Darling Basin - Support delivery of Plan
Matthew Canavan voted No
David Van voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 21st May 2021
Motions - Reconciliation Week - This year's theme
Matthew Canavan voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal National Party
David Van voted No
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
Matthew Canavan voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal National Party
David Van voted No
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 66% attendance