{"id":32000,"date":"2016-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/liberal-senator-backs-calls-to-vote-for-labor-2\/"},"modified":"2016-06-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T00:00:00","slug":"liberal-senator-backs-calls-to-vote-for-labor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/liberal-senator-backs-calls-to-vote-for-labor-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Senator backs calls to vote for Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>South Australian Senator Simon Birmingham has backed comments made by senior Liberal Christopher Pyne on FIVEAA that he would rather people vote for Labor than minor parties like Team Xenophon.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIf people don\u2019t want to vote Liberal, I will be advocating they vote Labor because we have to have a stable government,\u201d Chris Pyne said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow is not the time for us to risk instability in our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While on FIVEAA Breakfast on Thursday, David and Will asked Senator Birmingham whether he agreed with Mr Pyne\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEssentially yes,\u201d Senator Birmingham said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do need stability in Australia. I think the last thing people want to see is another minority government elected that is beholden to the Greens or other influences that are uncertain.<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN TO SIMON BIRMINGHAM HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/267014083&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know there is a lot of uncertainty from the Nick Xenophon party candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor your listeners they should ask themselves, \u2018Well, I\u2019ve heard Nick on the radio a lot, I like Nick,\u2019 they might say, \u2018But have I head any of his other candidates\u2026 do I have a single idea what they\u2019re like, what their views are what they stand up for?\u2019 because I haven\u2019t heard many of them on the radio,\u201d Senator Birmingham said.<\/p>\n<p>He said people would \u201cexercise a bit more judgment\u201d when voting for the Senate, but still sounded a warning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would urge people to think about the fact that the last few years we\u2019ve been beset by problems in the Senate because of the type of individuals that have been elected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Senators] who have proven to be incredibly unpredictable, the Jacquie Lambies, the Glenn Lazaruses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would encourage people to vote Liberal first, foremost and every single time. Vote for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/richard-douglas-opens-up-about-losing-form\">CROWS STAR OPENS UP ABOUT FORM SLUMP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/you-could-lose-everything-off-your-computer-in-this-new-email-scam\">NEW SCAM &#8211; YOU COULD LOSE EVERYTHING ON YOUR COMPUTER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Australian Senator Simon Birmingham has backed comments made by senior Liberal Christopher Pyne on FIVEAA that he would rather people vote for Labor than minor parties like Team Xenophon. \u201cIf people don\u2019t want to vote Liberal, I will be advocating they vote Labor because we have to have a stable government,\u201d Chris Pyne said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17827,"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":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-32000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","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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