Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says it was his decision to issue how-to-vote cards with Labor ahead of the Greens in all lower house seats.
The Liberals may have dallied with the Greens in some electorates but no one should be surprised by a decision to offer preferences to Labor.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says his party will urge its voters to put the Greens after Labor in all lower house seats.
"This is a call that I have made in the national interest," he told reporters in Sydney on Sunday morning.
"It hasn't surprised anybody."
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But he warned voters not to risk "an unstable, chaotic minority Labor-Greens-independent government" and to vote for the coalition.
Labor had strongly campaigned on a "dirty deal" it believed the Liberals were doing with the Greens in several Victorian seats the minor party is hoping to win from the ALP.
It has run ads showing the Liberal logo turning green, warning die-hard conservative voters the party may not be what they think it is.
But the Greens announced on Wednesday the party would suggest its voters preference Labor in the Melbourne seats of Batman, Higgins, Melbourne, Melbourne Ports and Wills but may run open tickets elsewhere.
