{"id":29247,"date":"2017-08-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/kate-ellis-says-she-will-break-her-maternity-leave-if-she-has-to\/"},"modified":"2017-08-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T00:00:00","slug":"kate-ellis-says-she-will-break-her-maternity-leave-if-she-has-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/kate-ellis-says-she-will-break-her-maternity-leave-if-she-has-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Ellis Says She Will Break Her Maternity Leave &#8212; If She Has To"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Federal member for Adelaide Kate Ellis says she will return to Canberra from maternity leave if her vote is needed to vote on a same-sex marriage bill.<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf my vote is deemed to be critical, then I\u2019ll be there,\u201d Ms Ellis told FIVEAA\u2019s Leon Byner on Thursday. \u201cI\u2019m not going to let my new born baby bear the brunt of holding up marriage equality in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we all hope the Turnbull government will just get it together. It is ridiculous if they are relying on dragging a two-week-old baby across the country in order to make this happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just need some leadership from the prime minister to say let\u2019s bring on a free vote, let\u2019s let all members of the parliament have a conscience vote, and let\u2019s make it happen in a much more sensible fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>LISTEN:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kate and aa\u2019s own David Penberthy <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/Penbo-s-tribute-to-Kate-after-she-went-into-labour-at-Crows-game\"><strong>welcomed their second son Charlie two weeks ago<\/strong><\/a>, and Kate said \u201cthe new bub is very well\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s currently in the care of his father, so if we can hear some screams coming from the other end of the house we\u2019ll know who to blame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s an absolute angel, so we\u2019re very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/Tex-Walker-Fires-Back-At-Wayne-Carey-Over-Crows-Comments\"><strong>TEX WALKER FIRES BACK AT WAYNE CAREY OVER CROW COMMENTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/TV-Personality-s-Shock-Diagnosis\"><strong>TV STAR\u2019S SHOCK DIAGNOSIS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal member for Adelaide Kate Ellis says she will return to Canberra from maternity leave if her vote is needed to vote on a same-sex marriage bill. \u201cIf my vote is deemed to be critical, then I\u2019ll be there,\u201d Ms Ellis told FIVEAA\u2019s Leon Byner on Thursday. \u201cI\u2019m not going to let my new born [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leon-byner","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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