Prime Minister Scott Morrison has continued to warn against voting for so-called “teal” independents—backed by the Climate 200 group—saying it would destabilise the government.
“Over the last three years, in particular, we’ve had the strength of a majority government,” the prime minister told reporters on Perth on May 6. “If each and every day we had to go and negotiate for the government’s existence with a cavalcade of independents or being pushed to-and-fro by others, then Australia would not have had the strength to push through the pandemic.”
“My warning is very clear to those seats where people are thinking about independents; I would say this: if they won’t tell you how they would vote, how could you vote for them? Not just on who they support in government, but we can’t have a government that’s a weathervane,” he added.
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