Mathias Cormann and Sean Edwards have voted the same way 100% of the time
Mathias Cormann
Former Liberal Party Senator for WA June 2007 – November 2020
Sean Edwards
Former Liberal Party Senator for SA July 2011 – May 2016
Between July 2011 and May 2016 Mathias Cormann and Sean Edwards have voted in the same division 665 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 665 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 minerals resource rent tax
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Carbon farming
- 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
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- 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 trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Refugee family reunification
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan