David Johnston and Matthew Canavan have voted the same way 100% of the time
David Johnston
Former Liberal Party Senator for WA July 2002 – May 2016
Matthew Canavan
Liberal National Party Senator for Queensland since July 2014
Between July 2014 and May 2016 David Johnston and Matthew Canavan have voted in the same division 341 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 341 times. They have never voted differently.
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 the same way on
- A carbon price
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into banking
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Live animal export
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Refugee family reunification
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- 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)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Unconventional gas mining