Matthew Canavan
Senator for Queensland · Liberal–National Coalition
Attendance
69%
3,433 of 4,961 divisions
Voted against their party
0
Never crossed the floor
Policy areas voted on
224
scored by They Vote For You
Voted consistently for
95% or more of their votes supported these positions.
- temporary protection visas
- privatising government-owned assets
- an emissions reduction fund
- uranium export
- storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- deregulating undergraduate university fees
- giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- charging postgraduate research students fees
Voted consistently against
5% or fewer of their votes supported these positions.
- increasing consumer protections
- ending illegal logging
- increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- a Royal Commission into Robodebt
- implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- increasing housing affordability
- banning new thermal coal mines
Voted both ways
Positions where Matthew’s votes fall on both sides. Each of these policies groups dozens of divisions across many years, including procedural motions and narrow amendments. Follow a link to see the votes.
- 50%increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- 50%increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- 50%criminalising hate symbols
- 49%suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- 48%increasing the diversity of media ownership
- 48%speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Work expenses
all expenses$571,705 claimed over 4 quarters (Apr–Jun 2025 to Jan–Mar 2026), 0.98× the median for QLD.
- Office Facilities$135k
- Office Administration$125k
- Employee Travel$93k
- Other Car Costs$81k
- Scheduled Commercial Transport$69k
- Travel Allowance$42k
How to read this
- They Vote For You groups related divisions into plain-language "policies" and scores how often each member voted with that position. Those groupings are editorial judgements made by the OpenAustralia Foundation, not official parliamentary categories.
- An agreement score in the middle of the range means the member voted on both sides of that policy over time. That is normal: policies aggregate dozens of divisions across many years, including procedural motions and narrow amendments. We deliberately publish no "flip-flop" score, because when we measured it, almost every member qualified — it reflects how the scoring works, not anyone's conduct.
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- Work expenses cover offices, staff, travel and communications. Claims are certified by the parliamentarian and administered by IPEA.
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Full record for Matthew Canavan at They Vote For You, licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL). Retrieved 2026-07-22.