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22nd Feb 2024
Identity Verification Services Bill 2023 and another - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Michaelia Cash voted Yes
Matthew Canavan voted No
Passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 50% attendance
Michaelia Cash and Matthew Canavan have voted the same way 99% of the time
Michaelia Cash
Liberal Party Senator for WA since July 2008
Matthew Canavan
Liberal National Party Senator for Queensland since July 2014
Since July 2014 Michaelia Cash and Matthew Canavan have voted in the same division 1733 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 1721 times. They have only voted differently 12 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 declared area offence
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Capping gas prices
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- 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
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance 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 Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- 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
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- 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
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Refugee family reunification
- 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
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Self-governance of the territories
- 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)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Transgender rights
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 1721 times. They have only voted differently 12 times.
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edited 22nd Feb 2024
Identity Verification Services Bill 2023 and another - Second Reading - Active expression of consent
Michaelia Cash voted No
Matthew Canavan voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal National Party
Not passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 51% attendance
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edited 4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Michaelia Cash voted Yes
Matthew Canavan voted No
Passed by a modest majority
8 rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Michaelia Cash voted Yes
Matthew Canavan voted No
Passed by a modest majority
7 rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 18th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - in Committee - Agree with the bill
Michaelia Cash voted Yes
Matthew Canavan voted No
Passed by a modest majority
7 rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 8th Dec 2022
Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022 - in Committee - COVID-19 vaccination status
Michaelia Cash voted No
Matthew Canavan voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 23rd Nov 2021
Covid-19 Vaccination Status (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Michaelia Cash voted No
Matthew Canavan voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
3 rebellions 65% attendance
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edited 13th Aug 2021
Motions - Covid-19 - Unity in COVID response
Michaelia Cash voted Yes
Matthew Canavan voted No
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 - Nationals' amendments
Michaelia Cash voted No
Matthew Canavan voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal National Party
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
Michaelia Cash voted Yes
Matthew Canavan voted No
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 21st May 2021
Matters of Urgency - Covid-19: Quarantine - Help Australians in India
Michaelia Cash voted No
Matthew Canavan voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal National Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 66% attendance
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edited 16th Jun 2015
Motions — Housing Affordability
Michaelia Cash voted No
Matthew Canavan voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal National Party
Not passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 77% attendance