Coalition confirms Senate deal with Centre Alliance to prevent 'disruption' but denies quid pro quo for grants

Mathias Cormann has rejected Labor’s suggestions that the government’s cooperation with the minor party influenced South Australia’s project funding

The Coalition has a written deal with Centre Alliance to prevent “gratuitous disruption” of government business in the Senate, Mathias Cormann has revealed.

The government leader in the Senate confirmed the deal in an estimates committee on Wednesday, as Labor probed whether $40m secured by Centre Alliance for South Australia had any connection to Senate cooperation between the minor party and government.

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