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12 June 2016, ABC News, Election 2016: Malcolm Turnbull says placing Greens last in voting preferences in ‘national interest’. With three weeks to go until the federal election, the two major parties are locking in preference deals to boost their chances in crucial regional and inner-city seats. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced the Liberal Party will preference the Greens last, or behind Labor, in every Lower House seat and in return, Labor has confirmed it will direct its preferences to the Liberal Party over the Nationals in the seats of Murray, O’Connor and Durack. The deal will help the Liberal candidates fend off an attack from the Nationals in those three seats while also giving a boost to Labor’s chances in the seats of Batman, Grayndler and Sydney. “This is a decision I’ve made in the national interest,” Mr Turnbull said. “The big risk in this election is that we would end up with an unstable, chaotic, Labor-Greens minority Government as we’ve seen before.” The Liberal Party’s Victorian state president, Michael Kroger, had publicly canvassed the idea of a preference deal with the Greens to unseat Labor in seats like Batman and Wills, but Mr Turnbull has intervened to ensure that does not happen. “I am the party’s leader and this decision has been taken by me, with the federal director, Mr Nutt,” he said. Read More here