• Liberal National Party Senator for Queensland
• Became a Senator on 1 July 2014 — Federal election
• Email me whenever Matthew Canavan speaks (no more than once per day)

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Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers: Answers to Questions (19 Nov 2024)

“The government continue to play politics with our energy system, and all Australians are paying the price for the government's failure to deliver the cheap electricity they promised at the last election. At the last election, the Prime Minister infamously said almost 100 times that he would lower people's power prices by $275 a year. Of course, the opposite has happened, as everybody knows...”

Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers: Housing, Small Business, Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (10 Oct 2024)

“The data in Senator Bragg's question today is concerning but not shocking to Australians. It's very clear that many Australians are struggling to stay in their own homes, to pay their mortgages and to keep up with escalating rents. A big part of that, a big reason for that, is the inability, the failure, of this country to build enough homes for people to live in. We can see that ourselves on...”

Bills: Building and Construction Industry (Restoring Integrity and Reducing Building Costs) Bill 2024 (No. 2); Second Reading (10 Oct 2024)

“The problem we have with this government is that it seems unable to admit when it got it wrong. They've got it wrong on budget spending, which has added fuel to inflation around our country. They've got it wrong on energy policy, where their intransigence on nuclear energy is pushing up the price of power and leaving Australia behind in the race to build data centres and catch up with the...”

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• Has spoken in 59 debates in the last year — average amongst Senators.
• People have made 4 comments on this Senator's speeches — well above average amongst Senators.
• 9 people are tracking whenever this Senator speaks — email me whenever Matthew Canavan speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 745 times in debates — well above average amongst Senators. (Why is this here?)

Matthew Canavan's latest interest statementLast updated: 28 Apr 2023