Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Wilkie was very proud to announce a $4 million grant in his electorate of Denison which was funded by Senator Wong. No doubt it was the very effective representations of Senator Abetz that would have persuaded Senator Wong to provide that $4 million grant. It wouldn't have had anything to do with Mr Wilkie being a crossbencher in the House of Representatives in a minority government! We all can try and suggest that we don't receive representations from members right across the parliament.

These two projects are high-quality projects. We support them and we're proud to be funding them. (Time expired)

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