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24th Jan 2020
Committees - Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee - Australia's relationship with China
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
Mathias Cormann and Cory Bernardi have voted the same way 97% of the time
Mathias Cormann
Former Liberal Party Senator for WA June 2007 – November 2020
Cory Bernardi
Former Australian Conservatives Senator for SA February 2017 – January 2020
Between June 2007 and January 2020 Mathias Cormann and Cory Bernardi have voted in the same division 1344 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 1299 times. They have only voted differently 45 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
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A citizenship test
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Carbon farming
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- 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 investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Investing in climate science
- Live animal export
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- 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 taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 1299 times. They have only voted differently 45 times.
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edited 15th Nov 2019
Committees - Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee - Reference
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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edited 25th Jul 2019
Documents - Commissioner of Taxation - Order for the Production of Documents
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 6th Sep 2019
Committees - Finance and Public Administration References Committee - Reference
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 14th Mar 2019
Treasury Laws Amendment (Protecting Your Superannuation Package) Bill 2018 - in Committee - Oppose the items
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 26th May 2023
Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2018 - in Committee - Character test
Mathias Cormann voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 14th Feb 2019
Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Recovering legal aid
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 14th Feb 2019
Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Limiting access to Legal Aid
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 14th Feb 2019
Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Release statutory review
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 11th Oct 2019
Road Vehicle Standards Bill 2018 and others - Second Reading - Relax import restrictions
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Nov 2018
Motions - Fuel - Remove fuel excise
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 71% attendance
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edited 11th Nov 2018
Motions - Nuclear Energy - Lift ban
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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edited 19th Oct 2018
Documents - Future Submarine Project; Order for the Production of Documents - Sitting placement
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 14th Sep 2018
Motions - National Security - Ban facial coverings
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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edited 3rd May 2019
Regulations and Determinations - Product Emissions Standards (Excise) Charges Regulations 2018, Product Emissions Standards (Customs) Charges Regulations 2018 - Disallow
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 20th Jul 2018
National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage and Foreign Interference) Bill 2017 and another - First Reading - Consider bills together
Mathias Cormann voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 28th Jul 2023
Treasury Laws Amendment (Banking Executive Accountability and Related Measures) Bill 2018 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Mathias Cormann voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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edited 28th Jul 2023
Treasury Laws Amendment (Banking Executive Accountability and Related Measures) Bill 2018 - in Committee - Cap executive salaries
Mathias Cormann voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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edited 4th May 2018
Regional Investment Corporation Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Mathias Cormann voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 6th Oct 2023
Treasury Laws Amendment (Putting Consumers First — Establishment of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Keep parts unchanged
Mathias Cormann voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 6th Oct 2023
Treasury Laws Amendment (Putting Consumers First — Establishment of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Keep parts unchanged
Mathias Cormann voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Mathias Cormann voted Yes in this free vote
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 20th Jan 2018
Regional Investment Corporation Bill 2017 - in Committee - Disclosure of interests
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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edited 20th Jan 2018
Regional Investment Corporation Bill 2017 - in Committee - Location of corporation
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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edited 20th Oct 2023
International Monetary Agreements Amendment (New Arrangements to Borrow) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Mathias Cormann voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 27th Oct 2023
Business - Consideration of Legislation - Three bills
Mathias Cormann voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 3rd Nov 2023
Committees - Selection of Bills Committee; Report - Competition and Consumer Amendment (Abolition of Limited Merits Review) Bill 2017
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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edited 20th Oct 2023
A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Amendment (Make Electricity Gst Free) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 27th Oct 2023
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Commonwealth Entities) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Mathias Cormann voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 73% attendance
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edited 17th Nov 2017
Motions - Parliamentary Representation - Qualifications of Senators
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 13th Aug 2017
Motions - National Security - Consistency in airport mandatory screening
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 3rd Nov 2023
Competition and Consumer Legislation Amendment (Small Business Access to Justice) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 24th Nov 2023
Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Indexation
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 24th Nov 2023
Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Transition period
Mathias Cormann voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 9th Mar 2018
Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Mathias Cormann voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Mathias Cormann voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Mathias Cormann voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 8th Jul 2017
Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Mathias Cormann voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Mathias Cormann voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Mathias Cormann voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 9th Jul 2017
Enhancing Online Safety for Children Amendment Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Criminalise "revenge porn"
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Gst Low Value Goods) Bill 2017; Third Reading
Mathias Cormann voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 7th Apr 2017
Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Change 18C wording
Mathias Cormann voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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Bills — Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Jobs for Families Child Care Package) Bill 2016; in Committee
Mathias Cormann voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2015
Tax Laws Amendment (Combating Multinational Tax Avoidance) Bill 2015 - in Committee - Tax information of companies earning over $200m
Mathias Cormann voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 82% attendance